Two Police Identification Bureau officers helped Interpol confirm the identities of 15 tsunami victims in Phuket in a month, by fingerprints. ...

... The tsunami killed more than 5,300 and left 2,900 missing in Thailand, most of them ... in Phang Nga province, about 75 miles north of the resort island of Phuket.

... the weak inflow of tourists in places such as Phuket, Phang Nga ... Were a tsunami to head toward the coast, the ... has been assigned to run local news bulletins for ...

[Asia News] PHUKET, Thailand : Thailand's natural beauty has long lured millions of foreign vacationers, but after the tsunami a row is brewing over how best ...

... will broadcast news and information about Phuket and Thailand ... work on shifts compiling the news reports. ... island of Sumatra, triggering fears of another tsunami. ...

... In the case of Thailand and the other countries hit by the tsunami, the stakes are higher. Previous Phuket Project volunteers, Shoultz said, have been greeted ...

... meet people who helped Britons in the aftermath of the 26 December tsunami, Buckingham Palace has said. During a two-day stay, he will visit Phuket and Bangkok ...

... Beach Post and The Boca Raton News, citing unidentified ... the Tiger Skins title in Phuket, Thailand, with ... donated to relief efforts after the December tsunami. ...

... Miller Ranch. So far, she’s got about 25 of them and plans to keep sewing until she leaves for Phuket, Thailand on Friday. “It ...

... ''We are broadcasting news because we ... Of course were a tsunami to head towards the coast, the loudspeakers that were ... There will be no person in Phuket to turn ...

... Asian tsunami has paid a moving tribute to them at their funeral. Six-year-old Taylor Howard and Mason, eight, from St Ives, died on the Thai island of Phuket ...

... professor Hank Fischer will visit Phuket, Thailand, next week to research the sociological impact of mass burials in the area hard hit the South Asia tsunami. ...

... who helped Britons in the wake of the Boxing Day tsunami, Buckingham Palace ... the country visiting areas badly hit by the disaster including Bangkok and Phuket. ...

... shocked" when she learned of the tsunami while on ... The news affected her particularly because of her Thai ... waves, including the resort island of Phuket, she said ...

... The beaches in Phuket are tremendous with gorgeous white sand ... are too young to understand what the tsunami was all about ... who have seen a lot of news coverage of ...

.. international media to tour the island on February 11-13, 2005 to see the real effect the tsunami had on the island. Transportation from Phuket or Bangkok will ...

... flame and sparking" as claimed in some news reports about ... to Thailand following the south Asian tsunami by offering ... from the Thai government that Phuket Air is ...

... 33, was killed in the accident in Phuket on Tuesday ... the identification of victims of the Asian tsunami, which in ... of whom were stunned when they heard the news. ...

... to the water stay at home and listen for news from the ... Meteorological Department announced that there would be no tsunami after all, and Phuket went back to ...

... from their beds and still wearing pyjamas, gathered at the Phuket town hall ... out of their homes as soon as television channels flashed news of a tsunami alert ...

... from last year, the state-run Thai News Agency on ... March 28, there was a brief panic of tsunami attack among residents and tourists in Phuket, following a ...

... In Phuket, a popular tourist destination that suffered grave ... expressing his grief for victims of the tsunami. ... As the news of Pope's demise spread across the ...

... that challenged the shoreline were wiped out by the tsunami in a ... It failed to adequately distinguish the damage in Phuket from other ... "Major news networks would ...

... Schmidt, a Danish tourist currently staying in Phuket, is one ... "When we heard what happened on the news, we wanted ... I'd been to Khao Lak before the tsunami so I ...

... BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Four top golfers competing Saturday on the tsunami-hit island of Phuket will donate their winnings to the relief effort. ...

[Asia News] BANGKOK : A ... residents in six provinces hit by the December 26 tsunami to flee to ... after thousands of people on the tourist island of Phuket had left ...

... warning of the possibility of a powerful tsunami. News of the earthquake spread through megaphones, loudspeaker ... the Thai resort island of Phuket, told Bangkok ...

... earthquake — verified by American satellite television news channels dubbed ... over the mountains into the tsunami-safe elevated interior of Phuket. ...

... But suddenly Yuth had news: "They're sending Pimalai 5 ... read the headline "Ten drown in Phuket boat mishap ... region, Koh Lanta sustained severe tsunami damage - but ...

... Whether by fate or coincidence, local resident Ami Ellenberg happened to catch one of the last flights out of Phuket before news of the tsunami was released. ...

... "This is good news," said Thai ... Keeping an eye on the tsunami-hit southern provinces, Prachachart ... local and foreign tourists to return to Phuket and Phangnga ...

... to bumper traffic clogged the streets leaving Phuket's Patong beach ... 35 minutes after agencies received news of the ... about one hour before the tsunami would have ...

... room next week when he visits Phuket, Thailand, an ... the mass burial sites and interview tsunami survivors ... Ever since news coverage began flowing out of South Asia ...

... bumper traffic clogged the streets leaving Phuket's Patong beach ... as soon as television channels flashed news of the ... Tsunami alerts were also issued as far away ...

... woman has been confirmed dead after going missing in the Phuket resort area ... 26 tsunami in the Indian Ocean, bringing the total number of Japanese ... (Kyodo News). ...

Tourism officials in tsunami-hit Phuket, dubbed the Pearl of the Andaman Sea, said the number of hotel occupancy rates have increased to 40 percent now from ...

... is travelling to Thailand to help with the effort to identify victims of the Asian tsunami. The team, who leave on Saturday, will be working in the Phuket area ...

.. A longtail boat shuttled passengers out to a southbound ferry that left Phuket at 8 am that ... I didn't hear much in the news about the tsunami affecting Ko ...

PHUKET, Thailand (Reuters) - A government marketing blitz and range of cheap room deals are luring tourists back to Thailand's tsunami-hit Andaman coast, but ...

... Suchada, a mother of two, told the Bangkok radio station she had fled Karon beach in Phuket after her friend heard a tsunami might be coming. ...

... village of Ban Nam Khem, north of Phuket, March 21, 2005. Several shallow-water fishermen in Ban Nam Khem have not been to sea because the tsunami aid packages ...

... a 21-year-old tsunami survivor, collects squids inside her partially damaged house in the Thai fishing village of Ban Nam Khem, north of Phuket, March 21, 2005 ...

... sit at a bar in Patong beach in the Thai resort island of Phuket March 29, 2005, a day after people were evacuated to higher grounds after a tsunami alert. ...

Ayla Brown, a volunteer from Canada mixes cement to help build a house in the tsunami-hit fishing village of Ban Nam Khem, north of Phuket, March 21, 2005. ...

... as the sun sets in the resort island of Phuket on March 29, 2005. Foreign tourists in Thailand shrugged off the threat of another killer tsunami on Tuesday ...

A Buddhist monk pays his respects at a memorial wall for tsunami victims on the Thai island of Phuket March 24, 2005. Decoding DNA ...

... Asian tsunami will unveil a special memorial to them on Tuesday. Taylor Howard, six, and brother Mason, eight, from St Ives, died on the Thai island of Phuket ...

... New York and Lynda Low of Singapore enjoy a sunset from Phuket Island's Phromthep ... of cheap flights and packages to lure tourists back to tsunami damaged areas ...

... province just north of Phuket, was mentioned often in the news as the ... as a journalist not a tourist, to Site II - the tsunami morgue for Phuket, just a ...

... response team to help areas of Southeast Asia deeply affected by the tsunami that hit ... The coastal city of Phuket is losing $10-million a day in lost tourism. ...

... bumper traffic clogged the streets leaving Phuket's Patong beach ... as soon as television channels flashed news of the ... to create a high-tech tsunami early warning ...

... beach and Phuket island for another three weeks. German tourist Martin Stiewe, 47, said he learned of the quake and tsunami warning from TV news and went ...

... One official said any possible tsunami could be headed ... beaches to higher places," said Phuket deputy governor ... On Monday evening, as news of the earthquake broke ...

... from Patong and Kamala beaches to higher places," Phuket deputy governor ... can assume the danger has passed if no tsunami waves are ... For more news about emergency ...

... Kamala beaches to higher places," Phuket deputy governor ... the epicenter, issued a preliminary tsunami warning as ... its own right." (For more news about emergency ...

... The Misna missionary news agency in Rome reported that a huge ... from hotels and hospitals in Phuket, Phang-nga ... charged with setting up a tsunami warning system ...

... 2,000 died," Kalla told El Shinta news radio of ... Kamala beaches to higher places," Phuket deputy governor ... the epicenter, issued a preliminary tsunami warning as ...

SINGAPORE : Many travellers who left Medan and Phuket after the ... avoid a repeat of last year's tsunami disaster ... a tale of personal tragedy...with bad news out of ...

Foreign tourists wait to check-in at Phuket International airport southern Thailand. The overnight tsunami scare in southern Thailand rattled the tourism ...

A mother and her daughter stroll along Kata beach, a day after people were evacuated to higher grounds on a tsunami alert, Phuket, March 29, 2005. ...

Two tourists get ready for a swim on Kata beach, a day after people were evacuated to higher grounds on a tsunami alert, Phuket, March 29, 2005. ...

... on a motorcycle rides past the wall of remembrance for victims of the December 26, 2004 tsunami disaster at Baan Mai Khao cemetery in Phuket province, about ...

... Xinhuanet) -- Two autopsy centers for tsunami victim bodies ... closed, the official Thai News Agency reported. ... equipped identification center at Phuket's Mai Khao ...

... The accident happened in Phuket during the late afternoon ... identification of victims of the Asian tsunami, which in ... whom were stunned when they heard the news. ...

... The effects of the tsunami on Phuket, which struck one beach and, inexplicably, by-passed another, was confined to about 60km of the island's western coast and ...

... famed Patong beach on the tourist island of Phuket and thousands ... service said it had sent out tsunami alerts to ... As news of the earthquake broke on Monday night ...

... they saw or heard the first news flashes, and ... 26 tsunami, officials used everything from megaphones and ... of the southern resort island of Phuket, told Bangkok ...

... After the Tsunami it was just bad news every day ... At a press conference held in a ball room at the Hilton hotel in Phuket Khun Ranong, told the hundreds of ...

... While the United Nations says the tsunami affected more ... Many beaches, including Phuket's infamous Patong, are cleaner, whiter ... People watched TV news and thought ...

... 26 tsunami, which left 5 million homeless. ... Heithoff served at Phuket, on the southern tip of Thailand, one of the hardest-hit areas. ...

... World News] Tourists on Thailand's southern resort island of Phuket recounted Tuesday ... huge earthquake struck northwest Indonesia, triggering tsunami warnings ...

... Tara MacDowel, a 31-year-old British holidaymaker who has just spent a week on the tsunami-hit Thai island of Koh Lanta, east of Phuket, said it was important ...

... out of the ocean off the island of Phuket during the ... they'll be bringing some relief for some tsunami victims in ... wonderful instead of all the bad news out there ...

[Asia News] KARON BEACH ... doubts behind in Sweden and brought her family of five to Thailand's Phuket island - one of the areas hit by the December tsunami. ...

... Tourist arrivals are currently down by 90 per cent in Thailand`s tsunami-hit provinces, including Phuket, Phang-nga, Krabi, Trang, Ranong and Satun, according ...