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Return nameless victims to heal tsunami wounds
Oped, Published on 26/12/2024
» A leader of the team that identified thousands of victims of the 2004 tsunami now believes that Interpol's 99.9% certainty rule should be adapted out of compassion to try to reunite the remaining 380 nameless victims with their families. Twenty years on, the full story behind the huge detective saga in Thailand that gave names back to thousands of victims of the 2004 tsunami is being told for the first time.
Big aquaculture bulldozes Borneo
Published on 31/10/2018
» PURU NI TIMBUL, Malaysia: Swinging his machete with an economy of movement that only the jungle can teach, Matakin Bondien lopped a stray branch from the path of his boat. He hopped barefoot from the prow, climbed a muddy slope and stared once more at what he'd lost.
Some Southeast Asian picks from the Busan International Film Festival
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 12/10/2018
» How do Aceh and Japan, two places that seem unrelated, separated by a vast distance of land and sea, connect on the personal and historical level?
Volunteers and success
News, Editorial, Published on 04/07/2018
» The successful search and the coming rescue of the Wild Boar football team is one of our finest moments. The 12 boys and coach were found and then broadcast on video to the nation by skilled and tenacious divers who refused to take a step or stroke backwards for 10 agonising days. They are heroes. So are the hundreds, Thai and foreigner, who supported them directly, as are the thousands who backed them actively.
Indian Ocean tsunami remembered
Achadtaya Chuenniran, Published on 26/12/2015
» PHUKET — Authorities in the southern province of Phuket held ceremonies in memory of the victims and heroes of the Indian Ocean tsunami 11 years ago.
Nation mourns tsunami dead
News, Post Reporters, Published on 27/12/2014
» Survivors and relatives of those killed by the devastating 2004 tsunami yesterday gathered for commemoration ceremonies to remember the tragedy that left an estimated 5,400 people dead and 2,800 missing in Thailand a decade ago.
Tears and fears 10 years after
Published on 26/12/2014
» Tears continue to fall for the dead amid fears that still haunt survivors 10 years after the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami on Dec 26, 2004.
When it all came crashing down
Life, Nattha Keenapan, Published on 23/12/2014
» On a sunny day in November, local residents, children and young people gathered at Ban Koh Phi Phi School to play and compete in Koh Phi Phi's major football tournament. Playing football had kept Kwanrudee Kaphokla and her teammates close. But what kept them closer was the difficult moments they shared during the tsunami that devastated their island 10 years ago, when Kwanrudee was 13.