PHUKET, Thailand (Reuters) - Tourists are gradually returning to tsunami-hit beaches around the Indian Ocean as hotels and bars rebuild, although for many holiday havens a full recovery is still months, if not years, away.
"Before tsunami, Phuket number one. Now, number nothing," said Nong, a 23-year-old transvestite cabaret dancer in the red light district of Patong beach on the Thai resort island of Phuket, where around 250 people died in the Dec. 26 disaster.
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