A decade after a tsunami tore through Thailand’s popular Phuket beach region, tourist, flight and hotel numbers have surged. WSJ’s Ramy Inocencio reports from Khao Lak.

The 20-year-old freshman student was still asleep that Sunday morning at the family's house on the Andaman Sea coast of southern Thailand when ... deadly Indian Ocean tsunami struck across South ...

Twenty years ago, the world was stunned by the Asian tsunami ... an adviser to Thaksin Shinawatra, Thailand’s prime minister at the time, had arrived in Phuket the night before with his wife ...

BAN NAM KHEM, Thailand--The 20-year-old freshman student ... 26, 2004, the day the deadly Indian Ocean tsunami struck across South and Southeast Asia, after a 9.1 magnitude earthquake off the ...

The 2004 tsunami killed more than 5,000 people in Thailand, according to official figures, with 3,000 missing. Now the country's two DART buoys are linked by satellite to a nationwide network of ...

Countries across Asia held ceremonies to remember hundreds of thousands of people killed during the massive Indian Ocean tsunami two decades ago. People gathered in prayer and visited mass graves ...

On December 26, 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake -- one of the strongest tremors ever recorded -- unleashed a devastating tsunami that ravaged coastal communities in Thailand, Indonesia ...

"You're not expecting a tsunami, are you?" But after he returned to the UK, Thailand, where 8,000 lost their lives, was still on his mind. In 2011, he moved to Phuket to work as a teacher but ...

She didn't know at the time that the tsunami had hit a dozen countries, leaving about 230,000 dead, around a third of them in Indonesia. Some 1.7 million people were displaced, mostly in the four ...