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Thai fishermen feel cut adrift after tsunami.

Bangkok Post (Bangkok, Thailand)

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Jan. 8--Walk around Phuket these days, and one is confronted by any number of incongruous sights, signals of an unusual calm after the storm. The empty beer bars of Patong beach. Abandoned motorcycles and cars left roadside. The ominously high signs of mud on a restaurant or hotel wall, signs of the sheer depth that the waters reached on that Sunday morning.

Off Rawai beach, in a small fishing village is another strange sight -- 30 fishing boats, in various states of damage, all lined up along the beach beneath a sunny blue sky with a calm sea in the background.

Two weeks after the tsunami, the fishermen have yet to return to the sea. Many still spend ...

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