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 island group between Phuket and the Straits of Malacca. On the morning of Dec. 26, 2004, they had gone kayaking and spent ...

She didn't know at the time that the tsunami had hit a dozen countries ... Sri Lanka, India and Thailand. Along Thailand’s Andaman coast, at least 5,400 people were killed and some 3,000 ...

PHANG-NGA, Thailand: When the Indian Ocean tsunami hit the south-western coast of Thailand in 2004, it claimed over ... Unlike nearby Phuket, few tourists visit and islanders live a quiet life.

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 ...

With hundreds of thousands dead, a shortage of body bags and 1.7 million people displaced, the overwhelming devastation caused by the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami remains forever imprinted on the minds of ...

An Irish survivor of the 2004 south-east Asian tsunami has revealed how her father — who also escaped from the disaster — ...

On Dec. 26, 2004, one of the largest ... eastern coast even after the tsunami wreaked havoc in the Andaman Islands, hours before striking the mainland. In Phuket, Thailand, tourists who were ...

Andaman Sea (Thailand) (AFP) – Almost 1,000 kilometres 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 ...