In Land Built for Tourists, Only Thais Are Left Behind
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While foreigners recover in the comfort of their home countries, many Thais have no homes left to return to.
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Sunday started out like any other at Thailand&#39;s Phuket island resort: It was idyllic. Sun-worshippers soaked up the rays; others frolicked on the beach.
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In one tsunami-hit Thai town, more than half of the 5,000-strong population are missing, police say.
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At least two Australians are missing in Thailand&#39;s resort island of Phuket, which was one of the first inhabited regions hit by the tsunami.
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By Charoen Kittikanya, Bangkok Post, Thailand  Mar.
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By MICHAEL CASEY  CHEME, Thailand - For much of his life, Viroj Dedsongprak paid little attention to the mangrove forests that surrounded his Thai village. He thought nothing of it when neighbors chopped down trees for firewood or plowed them under for shrimp ponds.
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KHAO Lak was the jewel among southern Thailand&#39;s beach resorts. It has been described as a tropical paradise and a playground of the rich.
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Until Sunday, Khao Lak, a sandy beach fringed with lush green hills, was a popular upmarket Thai tourist destination, a classy alternative to the more frenetic beaches at the older resort island of Phuket.
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More than 100 tourists on diving holidays are missing on islands off southern Thailand following the tsunamis, about 70 of them in the famed Emeral Cave, a tourist official has said.
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PHUKET, Thailand -- Day after day, the bodies keep arriving at Wat Lam Kaen. The Buddhist temple in the Khao Lak beach section of this popular resort is one of several temples in the area that have been turned into makeshift morgues, where the calming aroma of incense has been overcome by the sulfurous smell of decay.
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Two days after a tsunami battered  Indian Ocean coastlines, hundreds of foreign tourists are still  missing or unaccounted for.
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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.
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ThailandÂs deposed prime minister seems to be having a better time than the generals who ousted him, who are struggling to control the country he left behind.
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KHAO LAK, Thailand  - The Indian Ocean tsunami  killed at least 2,230 foreigners in Thailand, most of them in  the devastated Khao Lak resort and on other southern beaches,  officials said on Thursday.
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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 this week's quake-tsunami ...
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HAT YAI, Thailand  - Busloads of tourists left the   southern Thai town of Hat Yi on Sunday and many others canceled   their trip after a series of bombs on a busy street killed four   people and injured more than 60.
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Some 300 unmarked graves found two months ago in Thailand&#039;s restive south appear to hold bodies of slain migrant workers from neighboring Cambodia and Myanmar, Thai authorities said.