Thai rescuers hope for 'individual miracles' as search for missing tourists
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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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STOCKHOLM  - The Swedish government said it feared that many of the 1,500 Swedish tourists in Thailand who are still unaccounted for after giant tidal waves struck Asian coastlines may be dead.
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[World News]: Johannesburg, Dec 30 : A rescue mission to Thailand Wednesday brought home 68 South African survivors of the tsunami that has devastated the Southeast and South Asian coastlines.
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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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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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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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PHUKET, Thailand  - Teams searching for bodies in  tsunami-devastated Thailand zeroed in on the hardest hit areas  on Monday, as Thai and Japanese navy ships scoured the seas for  more dead.
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Of the 12 million tourists who visited Thailand this year, many headed straight to the gems of the south to soak up the sun along tropical beaches, dive on spectacular coral reefs and indulge in a languid, sometimes lascivious, lifestyle. Now, they're scurrying away in droves, reeling from a disaster of epic proportions which left five-star resorts and &#36;3-a-night bungalows in ruins and polluted the air with the smell of rotting corpses.
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Business owners in Thailand hope that the visit of Colin Powell and Jeb Bush will give tourists an endorsement that the country is safe for vacationers.
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PHUKET, Thailand  - Thai police on Monday ordered  families and friends of foreigners to stay away from  tsunami-hit areas, including Buddhist temples turned temporary  morgues where they have searched for missing loved ones.
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Thai and German rescue workers were digging through the wreckage of a half-completed hotel late on Wednesday after villagers said they heard calls for help from people trapped inside.
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Rescuers in the Andaman and Nicobar islands search for thousands of people missing since the tsunami disaster.
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BANGKOK, Thailand -- Thai survivors of Asia's tsunami disaster have complained they are second-class victims, with foreign tourists getting the best care. Now aid officials say a third class of victims in Thailand has emerged: migrant workers from Burma.
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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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KHAO LAK, Thailand  - Most of those killed or missing in Thailand&#39;s tidal wave disaster were Western holidaymakers, officials said, as rescuers pressed on with the horrific task of retrieving and identifying corpses.
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Efforts have been intensified in the search for the 36 people still missing following a Yellow River boating accident on Thursday morning in Linyi County of north China&#39;s
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MORE than 100 tourists on diving holidays were missing on islands off southern Thailand following today&#39;s tsunamis, about 70 of them in the famed Emeral Cave, a tourist official said.