Thailand sees losses at heart of its resorts
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PHUKET, Thailand The towering waves that roared ashore on the beaches of Thailand&#39;s resorts Sunday swept away sunbathers and snorkelers, bungalows and cars, and sent thousands of tourists fleeing for higher ground.
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Thailand's Finance Ministry said Wednesday that the devastation wreaked by deadly tidal waves which slammed into the nation's southwestern coast will likely shave 0.3 of a percentage point from gross domestic product growth in 2005.
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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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Thailand says it will look for bodies for at least five more days, as international teams start to scour the sea.
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New Delhi, Dec. 29: If the Indian government has its way, tsunami-hit Thai and Indonesian hotels and tourism firms are likely to take another hit, this time round from Indian tour operators trying to lure away their clients.
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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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Some 200,000 workers in the tourism business in the six southern provinces that have been hardest hit by the deadly tsunami on Sunday are facing the bleak prospect of losing their jobs, according to Sontaya Kunplome, the tourism and sports minister.
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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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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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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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PHUKET, Thailand  - A budget airliner filled with foreign tourists crashed on the Thai resort island of Phuket on Sunday, killing 88 people as it broke up and burst into flames while trying to land in heavy rain, officials said.
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As Sumatra seeks to pick up the pieces after a deadly quake, the local tourist industry near its epicentre on the Indonesian island is struggling to recover its lustre.
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An team from the British embassy in Bangkok heads to the resort of Phuket after the region was rocked by tremors.
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PHUKET, Thailand  - A week after a deadly tsunami  swept away thousands of lives along Thailand's tropical  coastline, people prayed for the victims in special church  services Sunday and spoke of putting the tragedy behind them.
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SINGAPORE (Dow Jones)--Singapore hoteliers Monday reported damages to their resorts in Phuket in Thailand and the Maldives, though the impact appeared relatively minor.
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Thailand struggled yester-day to evacuate thousands of traumatised foreign tourists from its once thriving holiday island of Phuket and other popular islands and beach resorts devastated by Sunday&#39;s tsunamis.
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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 ...