Thai Resort Tries to Regain Its Footing
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Business owners in Thailand hope that the visit of Colin Powell and Jeb Bush will give tourists an endorsement that the country is safe for vacationers.
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Rescuers were hoping for "individual miracles" of survival as they combed the beaches and islands of southern Thailand Wednesday for missing tourists and locals swept away by earthquake-powered tidal waves. Among them were more than 2,000 Scandinavians and 200 guests at a French-owned hotel.
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Thailand&#39;s beach resorts were among the worst-hit as waves triggered by the underwater quake swept scores of people out to sea, drowning swimmers and sinking boats.
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The government is now trying to retrofit the 'one tambon (municipality), one scholarship' scheme that is supposed to open doors to opportunity for Thailand's relatively poor rural families.
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Kuoni Reisen Holding AG and Hotelplan AG, Switzerland&#39;s two largest tourist operators, are flying back guests from Asian resorts after the strongest earthquake in 40 years unleashed tidal waves throughout the area.
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The Thai military is pushing to regain control of a phone company sold to Singapore by former Thai leader.
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BANGKOK - Thailand will need months to repair damage to its lucrative tourism industry wrought by the deadly tsunami that swept across the Indian Ocean, a senior tourism official said on Tuesday.
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KHAO LAK, Thailand -- Miles of tsunami-shattered beach hotels on the Thai mainland north of Phuket island began yielding up their dead yesterday, bloated gashed, and mangled bodies.
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Thailand was back to work as normal on   Thursday, less than 36 hours after a military coup condemned by   international leaders but endorsed by the royal palace and   greeted by many Thais with relief.
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The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) yesterday estimated the damage caused to hotels in the two worst-hit disaster areas _ Khao Lak and Koh Phi Phi _ at 12.8 billion baht, but has yet to determine the extent of the financial losses in Phuket.
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One of the tourism enclaves badly affected by the calamitous Asian earthquake was Phuket, an island located off the Southern part of Thailand.
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The island of Phuket, one of Thailand's top resorts, lies in tatters as people struggle to come to terms with the tragedy.
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Relief operations are under way in Thailand&#39;s hard-hit resort islands, where it is feared hundreds of people have died from devastating tsunamis.
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Sri Lanka and Thailand struggle to get their tourist industries back on track.
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THAM KRABOK, Thailand  - An obscure Buddhist monastery in central Thailand that advocates a secret herbal potion and ritual vomiting for drug addicts has become a final source of hope for thousands of Thais and Westerners. Since its foundation in 1959, Wat Tham Krabok, 140 km (85 miles) north of Bangkok, has put nearly 100,000 addicts through its "cold turkey" detox program and given them a grounding in meditation to help them keep on the straight and narrow. The treatment -- a far cry from the picture postcard beaches, jungle trekking and wild nightlife that draw millions of visitors to Thailand each year -- is not for the faint-hearted.
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Thai officials say more than 700 people have died at Khao Lak resort in the south of the country near Phuket.
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Thailand went back to work as normal on   Thursday after a military coup legitimized by the king but the   opposition called for fast-tracked elections to show the new   rulers are serious about a return to democracy.