PHUKET: Of the 12 million tourists who visited Thailand this year, many headed straight to the south to soak up the sun along tropical beaches, dive on spectacular coral reefs and indulge in a languid lifestyle.
Now, they're scurrying away in droves, reeling from a disaster of epic proportions which left five-star resorts and RM11.40-a-night bungalows in ruins and polluted the air with the stench of rotting corpses.
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