Idyllic Thailand Counts the Terrible Cost of Chaos
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Rescue teams converged on beaches and remote islands in search of the missing today as authorities reported that more than 430 people, including a number of foreign tourists, were killed and 4,100 injured when earthquake-spawned tidal waves devastated
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THAILAND faced furious protests from Islamic countries and organisations yesterday as horrific details emerged of the deaths of 78 Muslims in military custody on Monday.
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Thailand struggled on Monday to evacuate thousands of traumatized foreign tourists from its once thriving holiday island of Phuket and other popular islands and beach resorts devastated by Sunday&#39;s tidal wave.
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Scores of bodies were scattered on streets and among trees in a scene of horror on Tuesday after tidal waves ripped through the Thai tourist resort of Khao Lak.
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Bangkok (VNA) - In an address broadcast on television on Friday, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said that tension in southern Thailand has caused great losses in human lives and the socio-economic situation of the country for months.
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Wanphen Sripirom has struggled for years to scrape a living as a subsistence farmer in Phichit Province, north of Bangkok. Chickens have provided
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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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The cost in human life of the Boxing Day tsunamis is appalling by any measure but the economic impact of one of the world's worst natural disasters is likely to be minimal in the longer term, according to Australian analysts.
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Separatist militants in Thailand's mostly Muslim southern provinces have stepped up a decades-long, low-intensity insurgency into a wave of brutal bomb attacks, assassinations, machete hackings and, in some cases, beheadings and mutilations in the past 3 1/2 years, an extensive Human Rights Watch...
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A creative peace offering has been met with renewed violence in the troubled south of Thailand. Hours after 50 Thai army planes dropped some 100 million Japanese-style origami cranes over the predominantly
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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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Natural disasters cost insurers $42 billion this year, making 2004 the costliest ever for the industry, even before tsunamis struck tourist resorts in Thailand and Malaysia, the Insurance Information Institute said.
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By Aranee Jaiimsin, Bangkok Post, Thailand  Feb.
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Haunting images of the tsunami's aftermath attracted both aid and criticism.
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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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NARATHIWAT, Thailand : The deaths and beatings that followed last month&#39;s demonstration in southern Thailand have left an indelible mark on the psyche of the Muslims living
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The Thai premier's attempt to shift blame onto Malaysia and Indonesia for his failure to quell an Islamic insurgency in southern Thailand was a blunder that threatened regional ties, analysts are warning.