ระบบเตือนภัยสึนามิเป็นสิ่งที่ดี แต่ผู้เชี่ยวชาญบอกว่าจะให้ได้ผลต้องทำกันทั้งภูมิภาคและต้องมีระบบสื่อสารระหว่างกันที่ชัดเจน แฟรงค์ กอนซาเลซ หัวหน้าโครงการวิจัยสึนามิของห้องปฏิบัติการแปซิฟิกสึนามิเอนไวรอนเมนทอล ในเมืองซีแอตเติล สหรัฐอเมริกา...

Nine people who survived the Asian tsunami have been found on an Indian island after 38 days of living on coconuts, police say. A police party making a random check found five men, three children and one woman in a remote part of Campbell Bay, an island in the Andaman archipelago. The nine, all o...

Up to nine in 10 survivors of December's Indian Ocean tsunami are likely to suffer from psychological trauma, experts have warned. A Bangkok conference on treating tsunami survivors was told the mental health damage could last years. The likely death toll from the disaster is now more than 250,00...

The nations hit by December's tsunami have agreed a proposal to lure tourists back to their deserted beaches. The UN's World Tourism Organisation (WTO) endorsed the plan, saying tourism was the best form of aid people could give to affected areas. The UN has also said it will go ahead with a temp...

Phuket _ A lack of clear government policy has stopped help getting to the most vulnerable tsunami victims including migrant workers and small fishermen, a seminar was told here yesterday.Christine Evans-Klock, director of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) sub-regional office for East A...

Phuket _ A 10-billion-baht tourism revival package which includes bringing sports celebrities and Miss Universe contenders to the ...

PHUKET: The United Nations emerged yesterday as a co-ordinator for a regional tsunami warning centre after officials from 43 nations including India, Indonesia and Thailand failed to agree who should run it.The compromise dealt a blow to Thailand which had wanted to run the centre itself.Thailand...

In deep snow at minus 12 degrees Celsius, the tsunami wave hit. The disaster that struck 13 countries around the Indian Ocean at the end of last year has literally made tsunami a buzz-word at this years World Economic Forum, where more than 2,000 business, political and social leaders are gather...

Representatives of over 50 countries and organisations have clashed over the location of a co-ordination centre for an Indian Ocean tsunami warning system.
Thailand proposed that the centre should be in its capital, Bangkok, but was opposed by India and Indonesia. They agreed to set up smalle...