THAI tourism industry icon Wichit Na Ranong, managing director of the luxurious Indigo Pearl resort at Nai Yang Beach in Phuket, says, “I would say we had a very fast recovery after the tsunami.

On Nov. 4, 2005, AP published an article about Tilly, her family's stay at the JW Marriott Phuket Resort & Spa and the tsunami. The article was printed one day after Tilly had visited the United ...

The tsunami, which was triggered by a powerful ... an island group between Phuket and the Straits of Malacca. On the morning of Dec. 26, 2004, they had gone kayaking and spent some time at the ...

PHUKET: Two tsunami-warning buoys deployed in the sea to the west of this island province are being replaced with new ones as the warning system is updated. The two buoys were placed in the Indian ...

On boxing day 2004, a massive tsunami with waves up to 30 m (100 ft ... Tilly Smith, from Oxshott in Surrey, was on holiday in Phuket, Thailand, with her family when she noticed that the sea ...

That's what one couple said to their children as they saw the tsunami coming. A flooded hotel basement in Phuket.(AFP: Roslan Rahman) The family was out for a dive in beautiful Phuket when their ...

As the sun crested the horizon early on Boxing Day 2004, no-one on Thailand's west coast expected their life would be engulfed by chaos only a few hours later. At 7:59am local time, a magnitude-9. ...

As she touched down in Phuket on Christmas Eve back in 2004 ... Khao Lak beach the day before the tsunami. Picture: Supplied “It was the day after Christmas and we were excited to go scuba ...

he asked. “Something happened.” The phone disconnected as waves from a catastrophic tsunami rushed forward toward the islands and many other parts of the Indian Ocean. Boonyarattana ...

A woman who survived the Boxing Day tsunami in Thailand 20 years ago after ... was on holiday in Phuket when a magnitude-9.1 earthquake struck under the sea in northern Indonesia.

Two decades after a devastating tsunami swept across Southeast Asia, Petra Nemcova is recalling what, and who, helped her survive the storm. “It’s always difficult to go back in that moment wh ...