The Moken, a group of indigenous people from Thailand and Myanmar, once sailed freely between the archipelago of 800 islands ...

Tap Tawan’s seafarers face challenges from modernisation as their bond with nature fades and economic needs threaten the ...

PHANG-NGA, Thailand: When the Indian Ocean tsunami hit the south-western coast of Thailand in 2004, it claimed over 5,000 lives. But the local indigenous Moken people miraculously survived with almost ...

The 20-year-old freshman student was still asleep that Sunday morning at the family’s house on the Andaman Sea coast of ...

Vigil in Thailand on 20th anniversary of 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami A vigil is held in Thailand as people mark 20 years since ...

BANGKOK, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- Commemorations were held across Thailand along its Andaman coast on Thursday to mark the 20th anniversary of the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami. Speaking at a memorial ...

His home was a kabang, a boat, that his family sailed in Thailand’s southern waters. The ocean was his backyard. Now Hook, whose full name is Suriyan Klathale, lives on land like the rest of his ...

Christmas in 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake under the Indian Ocean triggered tsunami waves that killed some 230,000 people ...

Mourners gathered at a memorial ceremony in Ban Nam Khem on Thursday, a small fishing village in Phang Nga province in ...

In Thailand, people gathered at a memorial ceremony in Ban Nam Khem, a small fishing village in Phang Nga province that bore the brunt of the devastating wave in the country. The tsunami claimed the ...

Two decades on from the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami that struck a dozen countries and wreaked havoc across Southeast Asia, ...

Thailand marked 20 years since the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004. Five thousand people were killed, but a local tribe managed miraculously to survive with almost no casualties among them. Saksith ...