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 decade after a tsunami tore through Thailand’s popular Phuket beach region, tourist, flight and hotel numbers have surged. WSJ’s Ramy Inocencio reports from Khao Lak.

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

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 ...

"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 ...

When a then eight year-old Amber Owen was taken on a holiday of a lifetime to Thailand back in 2004 ... On the beaches of Phuket when the Tsunami hit, Amber owes her life to a very unlikely ...

The world's deadliest tsunami hit nations around the Indian ... Survivor Mark Oberle was holidaying in Thailand's Phuket when the giant waves hit Patong beach, and penned a blog post to fend ...