Two decades after the Boxing Day tsunami, communities in Phuket gathered to honour the lives lost and reflect on the lessons ...

Twenty years ago, the world was stunned by the Asian tsunami ... an adviser to Thaksin Shinawatra, Thailand’s prime minister at the time, had arrived in Phuket the night before with his wife ...

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

Khao Lak's beaches, about 40 miles north of Phuket island, were among Thailand's worst hit by the tsunami. "Today there’s a monument to the victims, but on the beachfront it's business as usual ...

ANDAMAN SEA, Thailand - Almost 1,000km off the Thai coast devastated by a tsunami 20 years ago, engineers lower a detection buoy into the waves – a key link in a warning system intended to ...

On December 26, 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake -- one of the strongest tremors ever recorded -- unleashed a devastating tsunami that ravaged coastal communities in Thailand, Indonesia ...

BAN NAM KHEM, Thailand (AP) — The 20-year-old freshman ... the day the deadly Indian Ocean tsunami struck across South and Southeast Asia, after a 9.1 magnitude earthquake off the west coast ...

"You're not expecting a tsunami, are you?" But after he returned to the UK, Thailand, where 8,000 lost their lives, was still on his mind. In 2011, he moved to Phuket to work as a teacher but ...

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 ...

The 2004 tsunami killed more than 5,000 people in Thailand, according to official figures, with 3,000 missing. Now the country's two DART buoys are linked by satellite to a nationwide network of ...