The casting crew of the upcoming movie "The Impossible" - based on a true account of a family who stayed at Khao Lak during the tsunami - is looking for native Scandinavian speakers to join the filming. The movie will star Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts in the leading roles.
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Eric Levine of California Fitness is trying to sell his Oceanfront Estate at Natai Beach in Phang Nga again - reportedly for a cool 20 million dollars.
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PATA Thailand is highly critical of Thai Airways, after price reductions of 50% of the Royal Orchid Holidays packages. - This does not help Thailand's tourism industry, says Bert Van Walbeek of PATA Thailand
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Businesses are struggling along the Andaman coast. Some hotels have asked staff to take holidays, while others work four days weeks. Better communication and truthful information to potential visitors will rebuild the tourism sector. The next threat for a recovery is exchange rates. European tourists are bleeding.
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U.S. seismologists have found evidence that the massive 2004 earthquake that triggered killer tsunamis throughout the Indian Ocean weakened at least a portion of California’s famed San Andreas Fault. The results, which appear this week in the journal Nature, suggest that the Earth’s largest earthquakes can weaken fault zones worldwide and may trigger periods...
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Thailand has approved an Bt18 million budget to set up Andaman sea rescue centers in a bid to restore confidence among tourists and the image of tourism in its Andaman coastal provinces. The budget will be allocated to Thailand’s five Andaman Sea coastal provinces of Phuket, Krabi, Phangnga, Ranong, and Trang. Phuket Disaster Prevention...
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Another visitor to Phuket is missing - and presumed dead - after swimming in the sea off Karon Beach this weekend.
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Foreigners discovering Phuket, plans for a casino, an expatriate stabbed, tourists robbed, plane accident with pilot error - this is not a flashback over the last 12 months, but foreign news reports published from the Andaman region from 1945 to 1989.
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Heavy torrential rain over the weekend on the Andaman coast of Thailand has created flooding in a number of locations. Water reaching up to three meters submerged part of Takua Pa on Monday. All schools have been ordered closed.
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The fruit season is upon us and there is plenty of cheap fruits available along the Andaman coast.
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