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Thai dive shop owner wants better post-tsunami picture sent out to world.

Bangkok Post (Bangkok, Thailand)

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Byline: Busrin Treerapongpichit

Jan. 6--It's almost noon on Patong beach, and the sun's rays twinkle off the caps of frothy waves. If this was any other January in living memory, the streets would be jammed with foreign tourists seeking to escape the frozen claws of winter in less hospitable climes.

Not today. Ten days after the worst natural disaster in Thailand's history, the streets are eerily empty, with shop owners lounging outside their doorsteps, waiting to greet the first customer of the day.

"Any other year, we might see 50-60 customers per day. But so far today, the only people we've seen are journalists," Toine Kokke, the manager of ...

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