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Six Months On

Challenges and achievements six months after the tsunami

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Sources: Bangkok Post, MCOT, and ThaiNews

02 November 2005:

Cabinet approves a 300-million baht tsunami anniversary plan
Details released by the anniversary organising committee show a total of 14,123 people have been invited to attend the Dec 25-27 memorial events. To cater for those attending the various events, a total of 4,500 hotel rooms have been reserved in Phuket, Phang-nga, Krabi and Trang, and 5,000 in Bangkok. Tsunami memorial services are set to be held at 10 am on Dec 26 at Patong Beach, Kamala Beach and Mai Khao Cemetery in Phuket, Bang Niang and Nam Khem villages in Phang Nga; and Phi Phi Island in Krabi. On that afternoon, a tsunami memorial foundation-laying ceremony will be held in Phang Nga's Khao Lak Lamru National Park followed by evening religious rituals at Chongfah beach.

02 November 2005:

Swedish TV will broadcast live events organized
in Stockholm and at Kao Lak
Sweden's STV 2 will do a special coverage on the one-year anniversary of the tsunami disaster, which severely wrecked many countries in the Andaman coastal region. The special coverage will run all day on December 26th.

06 November 2005:

US Ambassador to offers homes to Tsunami struck people in Phang Nga
US ambassador to Thailand Ralph L. Boyce has offered 51 homes built by donations from the US to the Tsunami affected people in Ban Bangsak, Phang Nga, and learning equipment to students hurt by the Tsunami.

07 November 2005:

Post-trauma stress risk for wave victims
Tsunami survivors could suffer post-traumatic stress disorder if exposed to too many media images of the big waves, says the Mental Health Recovery Centre, a state agency that offers counselling to tsunami victims. The centre has provided counselling to 18,356 tsunami-affected villagers most of which have recovered and resumed normal life. Of this amount 4,706 were on prescription drugs, 35 had thought of suicide, and 3 had attempted to take their lives but failed. A group of concern is children aged 7-15, who tend to suffer chronic depression as they were able to remember details of the tragedy but too young to let go. The centre will ask the media to avoid running repeat images of the waves.