Phuket in Thailand draws over 10 million visitors a year to its tropical beaches. But as the island seeks to become Thailand's first sustainable tourism destination, two decades after it was ravaged ...

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She didn't know at the time that the tsunami had hit a dozen ... mostly in the four worst-affected countries: Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand. Along Thailand’s Andaman coast, at least ...

Supermodel Petra Nemcova, who survived the 2004 tsunami by clinging to a palm tree ... She also faced her fears and travelled to Thailand and went scuba diving in memory of Atlee.

A ceremony was held in a southern province in Thailand to honor the ... their respects to the deceased. The tsunami was considered one of modern history's worst natural disasters, claiming over ...

Sweden was one of the worst affected countries by proportion ... British woman who lost her partner and his parents to the tsunami in Thailand, said the commemorations were a time to remember ...

On Dec. 26, 2004, in one of the worst natural disasters of the ... were only teenagers when the tsunami destroyed Khao Luk, Thailand, where their family was on vacation, killing their parents.

The tsunami was caused by a magnitude 9.1 earthquake and killed at least 228,000 people across six countries on December 26, 2004. Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand had the highest fatalities.

Images show tsunami survivor Wak Kolak in front ... and religious ceremonies were held in Sri Lanka, India and Thailand, some of the worst-hit countries. In Thailand, where half of the more ...

The 2004 tsunami killed more than 5,000 people in ... The fishing village of Ban Nam Khem saw Thailand’s worst destruction in 2004, with trawlers swept onto houses and 800 residents killed.

In Thailand ... began early in Ban Nam Khem, its worst-hit village. Tearful relatives laid flowers and wreaths at a curved wall in the shape of a tsunami wave with plaques bearing victims ...