Tourist tells how he escaped tsunami at Thailand resort
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BANGKOK (Kyodo) Kazumoto Niki considers himself a very lucky man. The 28-year-old Tokyo office worker arrived on the Thai resort island of Phuket at 8:45 am Sunday and boarded a bus for the nearby mainland
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By Channel NewsAsia&#39;s Hong Kong Correspondent Roland Lim. HONG KONG : A total of 277 Hong Kong residents are feared missing, mostly in the Thai resort town of Phuket, following Sunday&#39;s tsunami disaster.
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More than 700 foreign tourists are among nearly 1,000 people confirmed killed after tsunamis smashed into southern Thailand, the Deputy Interior Minister says.
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It was 90 degrees on Ko Lanta Island in Thailand, and the ocean that surrounded Kristin Foord's vacation bungalow was still. Foord, 31, of Boston was eating breakfast with her boyfriend at a beachside pool when they noticed a single wave in the distance, crashing and rolling toward shore. Awed by its beauty, they and others at the resort walked ...
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PHUKET, Thailand, Sept. 17 -- Stunned by the plane crash, Robert Borland found himself helpless on the floor of the jet with his trousers aflame when a passenger in a yellow shirt helped him out onto the wing. He knows nothing else about the man who probably saved his life.
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Rescuers combing the beaches of Thailand affected by Sunday&#39;s Tsunami today said they feared that the 4,000 people still missing in the country will not be found alive - the only hope was for &quot;individual miracles&quot;, said one.
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PHUKET, Thailand - Robert Borland found himself helpless on the floor of the jet wreckage, his pants in flames, when a passenger in a yellow shirt helped him out onto the wing. He knows nothing else about the man who probably saved his life.
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AUSTRALIANS holidaying in the Thai resort of Phuket today described the devastation unleashed by massive waves triggered by a major earthquake.
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Thailand has evacuated injured survivors of the devastating tsunami from its southern tourist beaches as officials said the national death toll was expected to top 1,000.
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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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Three people getting on with life in Thailand after the tsunami talk to BBC News.
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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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One of the tourism enclaves badly affected by the calamitous Asian earthquake was Phuket, an island located off the Southern part of Thailand.
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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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Instead of the beach or mountains, more tourists now spend their vacations at sites of disaster and depravity.  A former war correspondent offers a word of caution
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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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BRITISH EMBASSY officials travelled to Phuket last night to set up an emergency base for tourists stranded on resorts on Thailandâs west coast that have been devastated at the height of the tourist season.