CATASTROPHE IN THAILAND The Temple of Death
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The Temple of Lom Kaen in the devastated tourist hub of Khao Lak has, for many, become the last stop in the search for missing loved ones.
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The world looked on helplessly four years ago as Islamic zealots destroyed two enormous standing Buddha statues overlooking Afghanistan's Bamian Valley,  but recent explorations at the ancient site have led researchers to conclude that all may not have been lost. A third, much larger statue -- a 1,000-foot-long sleeping Buddha -- may still be buried nearby.
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Buddhist workers in southern Thailand in revenge for the October deaths of 85 Muslim protesters, police say. to families of the dead protesters, most of whom died of suffocation in army custody.
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BANGKOK, Thailand - With a clash of mallets and the stomping of jumbo feet that shook the earth, the game was under way. Tense commands were shouted by pith helmeted players tied firmly to their two-ton mounts...
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By Charoen Kittikanya, Bangkok Post, Thailand  Mar.
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A Buddhist village chief was beheaded in Thailand&#39;s Narathiwat province yesterday in an apparent revenge killing, a week after 78 Muslim protesters were crushed to death en route to a military detention centre.
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PATTANI, Thailand  - Almost 80 people died of  suffocation in southern Thailand while being taken to detention  at a military barracks after a violent demonstration, a justice  ministry official said Tuesday.
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Villagers on Thursday buried some of the 78 Muslims who died in military custody after a protest in troubled southern Thailand, while authorities insisted at a briefing for diplomats that the detainees were not intentionally mistreated. Later Thursday evening, a bomb exploded at an open-front bar in a southern Thai town on Thursday, killing at least two people and injuring 21, police said.
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CALANG, Indonesia  - Hundreds of Indonesians prayed at mass graves in Aceh province on Wednesday, while in Thailand Buddhist monks held a ceremony to remember the many thousands who died in the Indian Ocean tsunami three years ago.
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PHANG NGA, Thailand  - Thailand is to exhume  hundreds buried after the Indian Ocean tsunami, restarting the  task of putting names to thousands of unidentified bodies,  including those of many foreign tourists.
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The photographs on the bulletin boards outside the Yan Yao Buddhist temple make for a gruesome display. Hundreds and hundreds of bloated, disfigured and decomposed corpses stare out blankly.
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At least one person has been killed and several wounded after a bomb exploded in a restive area of southern Thailand. The blast happened at a Siam Commercial Bank branch in Sungai Kolok, a town in Narathiwat
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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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PATTANI, Thailand -- At least 78 Muslim detainees suffocated or were crushed to death after police rounded up 1,300 people and packed them into trucks following a riot in southern Thailand. Islamic leaders accused troops yesterday of overreacting and warned the deaths could worsen sectarian violence.
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MADRAS, 28 December 2004 - Grief and anguish marked final rituals across Southeast Asia yesterday as relatives buried or cremated their loved ones; and the death toll from a powerful earthquake and the giant tidal waves it unleashed crossed 25,000.
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Thailand is in shock after 78 arrested Muslims died in overloaded army trucks after a protest turned violent. The BBC&#39;s Tony Cheng has visited the camp where more than 1,000 survivors of the journey are still being held.
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At least 100 people died in Thailand after a tidal wave triggered by an earthquake hit the country's western coast.