HONG KONG, Jan. 15(Xinhuanet)-- International institutions continue to pour relief assistance to the Dec. 26 tsunami-hit countries while the nations are gearing up rebuilding in the disaster regions.

The Asian Development Bank has pledged Sri Lanka 200 million US dollars as tsunami relief assistance, the Sri Lanka state radio announced Saturday.

ADB President Tadao Chino, who visited the tsunami devastated areas, has assured the release of funds for short term and long term reconstruction and rehabilitation.

The ADB assistance is in addition to the around 250 million US dollars so far pledged by the United Nations and other international agencies.

The Sri Lankan government said the long term reconstruction bill of the Dec. 26 tsunami stricken areas is expected to be between 1.5 billion to 1.8 billion US dollars.

Sri Lankan Treasury Secretary P. B. Jayasundera announced Thursday that UN agencies have provided 166 million US dollars in order to fund a scheme to set off tax liabilities of around 500,000 people who are believed to have lost their records with the tidal wave attacks

Out of the 166 million US dollars, 30 million dollars are to be provided as cash grants to the devastated people while part of the grant is also to be used to meet some of their utility bills such as electricity.

Sri Lanka's southern and northeastern coasts were hit badly by the tsunami tidal waves, killing over 30,000 people.

The Paris Club of creditor nations provided an unconditional freeze on debt repayments for Sri Lanka to help it recover from last month's Tsunami disaster, Sri Lanka's official Daily News said on Friday.

"In this exceptional situation, creditors wished that the suspension not be submitted to any conditions, neither an accord with the International Monetary Fund, nor to comparable treatment by private creditors," Club president Jean-Pierre Joyuet said.

For the other worst-hit nation, Indonesia, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees(UNHCR) will provide 10,000 emergency tents for victims of the powerful earthquake and subsequent tsunami that ravaged the western part of Aceh, a UNHCR spokesman said Saturday.

UNHCR senior regional external media officer Mans Nyberg said in Banda Aceh that the tents were designed for use by small families consisting of two parents and three children and equipped with household goods.

UNHCR would focus its humanitarian activity on Aceh's west coast and Banda Aceh, capital of Aceh province, had received adequate humanitarian assistance, according to the officer.

The UN institution has opened a branch office in Meulaboh and planned to set up such offices in other districts as well as to start an air bridge using helicopters from Medan and Banda Aceh to the west coast, he said.

Meanwhile, the Indonesian government is mobilizing every effort for the rebuilding of the disaster region.

Minister for Public Works Djoko Kirmanto said Saturday Indonesia will offer 90 trillion rupiah(about 9 billion US dollars) worth of projects in the toll road and clean-water sectors to foreign investors attending the Indonesia Infrastructure Summit2005 slated to be held here on Jan. 17-18.

Coordinating Minister for Economy Aburizal Bakrie said on Friday night the government will offer 22.2 billion US dollars worth of projects at the summit.

The catastrophe killed more than 110,000 people and destroyed buildings along the beach in the Aceh province. Some 1,878 Acehnese were seriously injured and some 132,172 people are still listed missing in the province.

The Indonesian Social Service Ministry said the number of refugees in Aceh and North Sumatra provinces reached 703,518 by Saturday.

Head of aids distribution for tsunami victims in Aceh province Edi Aman Saragih said that by the 19th day after the tsunami disaster, some 9,000 tons of aids, comprising clothes, food, medicine and others, had been distributed to survivors in Aceh province.

The volume of assistance from foreign countries has been increasing, facing a situation that the refugees still need more aids, including food for children and babies, medicine, tents, rice and sugar, clothes.

The Banda Aceh airport normally receives 10 flights a day, now has more than 200 flights landing a day. The frequency of flights to and from the Polonia airport in Medan has also increased sharply from 120 to more than 370 a day to distribute relief aid.

In Thailand, the first batch of allocation of government funds of 150 million(3.6 million US dollars) will reach the hands of tsunamis victims in the nation.

A total of 5.2 billion baht(124 million US dollars) from the central fund has been allocated to assist the victims through six state agencies, Deputy Prime Minister Suwat Liptapanlop was quoted by The Nation newspaper as saying on Friday.

The Royal Fishery Department will give out 50 million baht(1.2million US dollars) to some 27,000 fishermen in the tsunami-battered region. The Disaster Prevention Department will distribute 60 million baht(1.4 million US dollars) to the victims.

20 million baht(476,000 US dollars) will be paid to the unemployed by the Labor Department while another 20 million baht will be handed over to 40 orphans and 13,000 students.

People affected by the disaster and the injured and relatives of the dead can get a sum of compensation from the local government.