PHUKET: Wichit Sutthaso, Chief of the Phuket Provincial Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Office (DDPM Phuket), has ...

The irony is that Phuket (pronounced Pooh-get) was largely spared the wrath of the tsunami. Most of Thailand’s worst damage occurred farther north in Phang Nga province. Of the nearly 5,400 ...

In Thailand, Sunday's tsunami killed hundreds of people on the resort island of Phuket, as well as other islands nearby. Among those who died in the waves was 21-year-old Bhumi Jensen, a U.S ...

Aide workers say Burmese tsunami survivors or families of tsunami ... For NPR News, I'm Doualy Xaykaothao in Phuket, Thailand. INSKEEP: If you go to npr.org, you can watch a multimedia story ...

For Som, another single mother from Thailand's impoverished northeastern region, her monthly earnings plummeted when tourists and pleasure-seekers stayed away from Phuket after the tsunami.

Thailand idyll idle as crowds stay away / Once crowded islands devastated by tsunami now ...

Phuket and Phangnga are provinces popular with tourists and were among those hit by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that killed more than 5,000 people in Thailand. The order, following a warning ...

Beachfront ceremonies in Thailand were the first ... for a solemn Christian prayer service at Phuket island's Patong beach, which was damaged by the tsunami but which now throbs again with ...

I spent time in early November in southern Thailand to see how ... Still, many people on Phuket suffer from what they call the “economic tsunami.” Tourism is Phuket’s lifeblood; 100,000 ...

the Gulf of Thailand on the other. The tragic Indian Ocean tsunamis damaged several Thai resorts on the Andaman side, including Phuket, Khao Lak and Ko Phi Phi. On the Gulf side, it's business as ...

A floating electric car aimed at flood-prone areas has been launched in Phuket, Thailand, which has many roads that can be inundated during the rainy season and was struck by a deadly tsunami in 2004.