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Backpackers To Prop Up Post Tsunami Thai Tourism
Thursday, 27 January 2005, 12:16 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Low-budget, international backpackers will prop up Thailand's crippled travel industry, after tsunamis killed more than 5,300 people, destroyed beach resorts and made wealthier tourists fearful, the author of Lonely Planet's ... More >>
Ghost Stories Haunting Thailand's Tsunami Zones
Thursday, 20 January 2005, 11:23 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Many Thais believe ghosts are wandering tsunami-hit beaches, spooking taxi drivers, making the Andaman Sea hungry for more victims, and jinxing an economic recovery for devastated resorts. More >>
Tattoos Help Identify Tsunami Victims' Bodies
Tuesday, 18 January 2005, 10:15 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
PHUKET, Thailand -- The popularity of tattoos among foreigners and Thais has helped identify bodies recovered from the tsunami, especially when it is difficult to match DNA with a relative, or find dental records, according to a U.S. government forensic ... More >>
Ehrlich: Body Identification Ruckus In Phuket
Monday, 17 January 2005, 11:04 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
PHUKET, Thailand -- Egotistical squabbles among international embassies, recovery and forensics teams in which "everybody wanted to be the boss," caused problems while identifying the tsunami's dead at the main morgue in a Buddhist temple, according ... More >>
Tsunami Corpse Turf Wars Break Out In Phuket
Monday, 17 January 2005, 10:15 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
An embarrassing turf war has erupted between Thailand's respected, forensic expert and angry police about the thousands of corpses of foreigners and Thais being examined for identification, where they are kept, and who is issuing death certificates. More >>
Tsunami Report: Thai Shops Selling Gruesome Photos
Friday, 14 January 2005, 11:38 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
PHUKET, Thailand -- Shops are selling high-quality, color photographs of bloated, blackened corpses of foreign tourists and Thais who perished in the tsunami, and video compact disks showing waves battering and flooding Thailand's tiny islands. More >>
UK Mourners Offered Govt. Paid Trips To Thailand
Thursday, 13 January 2005, 1:53 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
PHUKET, Thailand -- The British government is offering free airfare and accommodation for British families who lost relatives in the tsunamis, so they can grieve amid the wreckage of hotels, inspect the devastated beaches and escort the remains back ... More >>
Free Airfares For British Tsunami Victims Families
Thursday, 13 January 2005, 9:24 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
PHUKET, Thailand -- The British government is offering free airfare and accommodation for British families who lost relatives in the tsunamis, so they can grieve amid the wreckage of hotels, inspect the devastated beaches and escort the remains back ... More >>
Tsunami Forensics Bury Bodies To Preserve For DNA
Wednesday, 12 January 2005, 11:19 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
PHUKET, Thailand -- Forensic teams buried the cadavers of foreign tourists and Thais in shallow graves "to slow the decomposition" while conducting DNA tests, because refrigeration was not available for thousands of bodies recovered from the ... More >>
Tsunami Scavengers Survivors Nuns And Corps
Tuesday, 11 January 2005, 10:04 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
KHAO LAK BEACH, Thailand -- Scavengers, survivors, nuns and corporate logos have appeared along this mangled, death-pocked coast where vehicles jut from wet sand and bonfires consume five-star trash. More >>
Tsunami Report: Tourists Return To Stench & Sand
Monday, 10 January 2005, 11:46 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
PHUKET, Thailand -- Americans are tossing a Frisbee, Germans are eyeing the lapping sea, and an Italian is thinking of Pompeii here on Patong Beach where tsunamis killed so many and destroyed so much, leaving a stench which now wafts on a tropical breeze. More >>
Tsunami Report: Cyberspace Blogs & Gruesome Photos
Monday, 10 January 2005, 11:40 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
PHUKET, Thailand -- Internet Websites, blogs, chat groups and databases are flooded with tsunami scams, gruesome morgue photos, official warnings, donation requests, Islamic propaganda against Thailand, and ridiculous jokes, causing confusion and ... More >>
Tsunami Report: Need For Thai Orphanages Urgent
Friday, 7 January 2005, 10:07 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
PHUKET, Thailand -- There is "a real need for orphanages" for Thai children who survived the tsunami, according to an executive director of an American-founded Christian group who helped set up churches in the stricken zone. More >>
Tsunami: Interviews With A Dead Worker
Wednesday, 5 January 2005, 11:31 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
PHUKET, Thailand -- A Canadian who helped carry and separate about 500 corpses into "Asian" and "foreign" piles at a Buddhist temple, said bodies were covered in dry ice until forensic teams could decide who could be cremated in ... More >>
U.S. Families Paying Investigators To Find Bodies
Tuesday, 4 January 2005, 12:09 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
PHUKET, Thailand -- The family of an American real estate agent who vanished in the tsunamis, hired U.S. investigators to find him dead or alive, but after seven days of searching, no trace emerged of the missing Illinois man, a security expert said. More >>
Tsunami: Thousands Of Cremations A Grim Task
Monday, 3 January 2005, 10:49 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
PHUKET, Thailand -- Cremating thousands of tsunami victims at Buddhist temples has become a grim task, but Thailand's monks are trained by "corpse meditation" and staring at photos of decomposing bodies to deal with the transitory nature of ... More >>
Tsunami: The Missing In Phuket
Monday, 3 January 2005, 10:46 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
PHUKET, Thailand -- Similar to the bleak aftermath of September 11 in New York, a slew of private photographs, international names, personal details and agonized pleas for help appear on walls, amid hopes of finding people missing or dead from ... More >>
U.S. Trio Wait For The Big One On The Beach
Saturday, 1 January 2005, 1:23 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
PHUKET, Thailand -- Three Americans remained on a beach enjoying the ''beauty,'' ''energy'' and ''mass of white'' of an approaching tsunami, and marveled in awe when it suddenly sucked all the water from the bay. More >>
Tsunami Eyewitness - 72-yr-old Swept Out To Sea
Saturday, 1 January 2005, 12:47 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- A 72-year-old American who felt an earthquake but shrugged off breakfast conversation about a tsunami, was slammed two hours later by a ''line of cumulous clouds'' of water at Golden Buddha Beach Resort and carried out to sea. More >>
Richard S. Ehrlich: Thailand's Earthquake Survivor
Thursday, 30 December 2004, 11:21 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Foreign tourists rescued from a tiny island off the coast of Phuket said they thought a terrorist was shooting people, a dam had burst or a hurricane hit moments before they saw huge waves sweep helpless victims into the Andaman Sea. More >>
