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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BANGKOK, THAILAND -- A statesman, a supermodel and a skier were among the vacationers whose search for some peace and sun in tropical southern Asia was ripped apart by the horror of the massive earthquake and tsunami waves that tore through the region
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Thai rescuers load empty coffins to be sent to Phuket at Bangkok military airport Monday, Dec. 27, 2004. Rescuers converged on beaches and islands Monday to search for survivors of earthquake-spawned tidal
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KHAO LAK, Thailand  - Rescuers have saved a  dolphin swept over a Thai beach by the tsunami that devastated  shores around the Indian Ocean, but failed on Wednesday to find  her calf in a filthy lake left behind by the giant wave.
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Editor&#39;s note: The following e-mail exchange comes from Elizabeth &quot;Betty&quot; Magee, who recently moved to Fort Myers. Her brother, Brian Peace, a citizen of the United Kingdom, was in Phuket, Thailand when the tsunami struck the region.
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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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HUGE tidal waves struck southern Thailand&#39;s popular resort island of Phuket today, sweeping at least four foreign tourists out to sea, sinking boats and forcing the evacuation of hotels, officials said on state radio.
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A visitor to Patong in Thailand describes the clean-up operation following the devastation left by the tsunami waves.
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Pop singer Ricky Martin says he knew he had to come to Thailand to help after watching the devastating scenes of the Asian tsunami.
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At least 43 Britons died on Thai beach resorts in Sunday&#39;s tsunami, Thailand said today as it drastically increased its casualty estimates from the disaster.
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Thousands of European tourists were begining their day with breakfast or by sunning themselves on Thailand&#39;s white sand beaches when massive waves triggered by an earthquake, swept people, bungalows, boats and cars out to sea.
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Most of the resorts hit by the tsunami are back in business. Now all they need is for tourists to return
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A Canadian holiday maker spoke to BBC News about his ordeal following the devastating sea surges in Phuket, Thailand.
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BANGKOK : Western tourists who survived giant waves that struck Thailand&#39;s shores at the weekend have been astounded by the generosity of locals grappling with their own massive destruction and loss of life.
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A father tells how he saved his family from the killer tsunami by strapping them into a  tree using towels.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia, Jan. 22 -- A lone tsunami survivor has been rescued from a remote Indian island, officials said Saturday, a rare moment of hope in the Indian Ocean since the giant waves struck on Dec. 26.
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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 earthquake-powered tidal waves. Among them were more than 2,000 Scandinavians and 200 guests at a French-owned hotel.