Somneuk Chuaykerd lost one of her young sons to the tsunami while she was out at sea, fishing with her husband. The ...

The deadly tsunami hit Thailand 20 years ago – trauma will never go away. Nuengduangjai is just one of many with a story to tell . Jintamas Saksornchai. Monday 23 December 2024 10:17 GMT.

The tsunami in Thailand on Dec. 26, 2004. AP Photo/ J.T. and Caroline Malatesta via Birmingham News. I flew to Bangkok with a third friend of ours to see Her Majesty who was then upcountry.

KHAO LAK, Thailand — Watana Sittirachot was raised at an orphanage in Thailand for children affected by the 2004 Asian tsunami. Now, 20 years after the disaster changed the course of his life ...

Beachfront ceremonies in Thailand were the first of hundreds due to be held to mark the disaster's grim anniversary in the dozen countries hit by the earthquake-spawned waves last Dec. 26.

Thailand's Andaman Coast, which suffered extensive casualties and damage, has been a vast construction site for much of the past year. The laborers — all tsunami survivors — start at first ...

Model Petra Nemcova opens up on 'GMA' about surviving the 2004 tsunami that killed 5,000 in Thailand. 'It's always difficult to go back in that moment.' ...

In Thailand, hundreds of people attended a tsunami memorial ceremony at Ban Nam Khem, a small fishing village that lost about half of its population of 5,000 when the waves rolled in.

Thailand's beach resort communities have been recovering slowly since the devastating tsunami struck a year ago. Hotels have been rebuilt and tourists have returned. Residents of the resort towns ...

"Effective tsunami early warning depends just as much, if not more, on community involvement and awareness as it does on high--tech solutions," said Joana Merlin-Scholtes, UN resident coordinator ...