Thai beaches full two years after tsunami, as tourists try to forget
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Tourists are finally returning to Thailand's Andaman coast two years after the devastating tsunami, but any attempts to commercialize the tragedy are being snubbed by holidaymakers.
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A Thai woman goes through salvaged items outside her house in Khao Lak, Thailand December 29, 2004. The tsunami which ripped apart tourist-packed Khao Lak beach in south Thailand may have killed 3,000 people there, local police said on Wednesday.
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Thousands of tourists were lazing on Thailand&#39;s renowned white sand beaches Sunday morning when an earthquake-driven wave turned their tropical vacations into a holiday of terror, sweeping people, bungalows, boats and cars out to
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Tourists struggle with the wisdom and ethics of vacationing in disaster-hit regions.
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The Thai Navy has rescued hundreds of tourists and other people from the tiny Andaman Sea resort of Koh Phi Phi, after the island made famous by &quot;The Beach&quot; movie
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KHAO LAK, Thailand  - The known toll of foreign  tourists killed around Thailand's Khao Lak beach neared 2,000  and was still rising on Friday as Asia's tsunami catastrophe  resonated beyond the Indian Ocean into European hearts.
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NEW DELHI: Parts of Southeast Asia that bore the brunt of the killer tsunami happens to be one of the most-popular vacation spots.
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BAN NAMKHEM, Thailand  - As a clean up operation  finally gets into gear in this devastated Thai fishing village,  some of the survivors complain that the authorities gave  priority to foreign tourists rather than them.
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PHUKET, Thailand  - Thai police on Monday ordered  families and friends of foreigners to stay away from  tsunami-hit areas, including Buddhist temples turned temporary  morgues where they have searched for missing loved ones.
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A week after a deadly tsunami swept away thousands of lives along Thailand's tropical coastline, people prayed for the victims in special church services Sunday and spoke of putting the tragedy behind them.
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Exactly two years after terrorist bombs killed 202 people on the Indonesian island of Bali, families and friends of the victims and survivors have gathered to remember their fallen loved ones.
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KHAO LAK, Thailand  - The tsunami which ripped  apart tourist-packed Khao Lak beach in south Thailand may have  killed 3,000 people there, local police said on Wednesday.
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A day after Sunday&#39;s powerful earthquake, Japanese tourists who escaped the disaster at a hotel in the southern Thai resort island of Phuket described terrifying scenes when a tsunami hit the island.
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BANGKOK -- On Jan. 3, when Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was making one of his many visits to the tsunami-devastated south, he stopped by a Buddhist temple in Takua Pa that had been turned into a morgue. He put on a powder-blue surgical mask and rubber gloves to tour the grounds. He gave a spirited pep talk to volunteers who ...
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Honeymooning couple Todd and Alicia Yetman, of Toronto, Canada, take a photo along the damaged shores of Patong Beach, Monday, Dec. 27, 2004, in Phuket, Thailand.
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Fears are growing for a Co Tyrone man who is thought to have been on the Thai island of Phi Phi when the tsunami struck.
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Thailand has started exhuming hundreds of bodies hastily buried in mass graves after the Indian Ocean tsunami in an effort to find out how many are among thousands reported missing, many of them foreign tourists.