Perched along the scenic coastline of Japan’s Iwate prefecture, the Taro Kanko Hotel once stood as a symbol of hospitality, ...

THAI tourism industry icon Wichit Na Ranong, managing director of the luxurious Indigo Pearl resort at Nai Yang Beach in Phuket, says, “I would say we had a very fast recovery after the tsunami.

Six years after the Boxing Day Tsunami—or the Asian Tsunami as the disaster came ... It was the unprecedented disaster of Dec. 26, 2004, that brought a peaceful end to three decades of war.

Christmas in 2004, when a 9.1-magnitude earthquake west of the Indonesian island of Sumatra set off a mammoth wave that was ...

2024 Tearful mourners prayed and lit candles Thursday at ceremonies across Asia to remember the 220,000 people killed two decades ago when a tsunami hit coastlines around the Indian Ocean in one ...

Here, he shares his memories from the response in India to the Asian Tsunami, which struck the coastline in 2004. I had recently returned to Thailand having completed the four-year humanitarian ...

Now, at this moment of need, the world must rally around Japan and help its remarkable people do what it already knows it can do,” says Asia Society Executive Vice President Jamie Metzl. Long-term ...

but I couldn’t help but think about the sheer force of nature that destroyed the tranquillity in 2004. Like many parts of Asia impacted by the tsunami, Sri Lanka has made a resounding comeback ...

For those traveling through Japan’s Iwate prefecture, a visit to Takata Matsubara Memorial Park for Tsunami Disaster and the ...

Although countries like Cuba, Honduras, and the Cayman Islands were under tsunami threat for a few hours in the afternoon, around 9 PM EST, the U.S. National Tsunami Warning Center reported that ...