Some Thais Feel Foreigners Came First After Tsunami
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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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The fact that the tsunami happened at the peak of tourist season could deter others from coming in the future. Other countries weren&#39;t hit as hard.
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The identification of Thailand's tsunami dead becomes increasingly difficult as bodies decompose.
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KHAO LAK, THAILAND - Emergency crews in Thailand struggled Tuesday to identify hundreds of tourists killed when a tsunami roared through southern resorts - even as an endless stream of trucks delivered new bodies.
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Until two weeks ago, Smith Thammasaroj was a prophet without honor. As chief of Thailand's meteorological department in 1998, he was accused of scare-mongering when he warned that the country's southwest coast could face a deadly tsunami.
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Thousands of Thais, mostly from the fishing town of Nam Khem, have trickled into a makeshift refugee camp with little more than the clothes on their backs &#151; and harrowing tales of how they escaped death and their loved ones did not.
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SINGAPORE : The impact of the tsunami disaster has hit home for thousands of foreign workers in Singapore who come from Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Thailand.
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THE first Australians to arrive home from the tsunami-ravaged holiday island of Phuket had the wide-eyed expressions of people who still couldn&#39;t believe what they had seen.
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KHAO LAK, Thailand  - Western holidaymakers -- especially Scandinavians -- bore the brunt of deadly tidal waves that hit Thailand, officials said Wednesday, as rescuers continued the horrific task of retrieving and identifying corpses.
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Indonesians encountered on the devastated streets of Banda Aceh have developed a new greeting since foreigners began flooding in to help them recover from the tsunami that surged into northern Sumatra 11 days ago.
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Survivors are united in their desperate search for loved ones in Thailand, says the BBC's Kate McGeown.
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In the wake of the tsunami, there was abundant amateur video of the disaster coming from tourist hotspots, like Phuket, Thailand. But some of the villages and islands in the path of the devastating
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The first Swedish dead from the Asian tsunami came home on Wednesday morning to a nation which fears it may have suffered its worst loss of life for 200 years.
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Tsunami aid has brought together sometimes-bickering groups - such as Indo-Americans in the Bay Area.
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In tsunami-ravaged Banda Aceh, Indonesia, survivors have a gritty determination to start over.
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A Briton living in Thailand today told how survivors of the sea surges which have wrecked the countryâs southern tourist resorts had to tread over bodies to escape.
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A Filipino who died in the tsunami that hit Phuket, Thailand was identified Thursday even as Philippine embassy officials scrambled to verify additional Filipino casualties.