An Australian man,his wife and their tour guide went through a terrifying ordeal in Bali when waves knocked them from the jet skis they were riding.
The junta was so happy with the news that it dominated the first five pages of the Myanmar newspaper,even as thousands lay dead or dying in rubble.
As the junta leader shook hands in Bangkok,the UN said it had received 14 reports of attacks despite a promised halt to the bombing after the earthquake.
I’ve been looking at this mound of death for days. Those poor people trapped inside. What they endured,where they might be.
Athitaya and her colleagues were about to begin work on the seventh floor of a Bangkok tower when their leader snapped this picture. Then an earthquake struck.
It is three days almost to the moment since the under-construction office tower collapsed in Bangkok. But miracles can happen,and the staging area is buzzing.
Aye and her brother are holding vigil beside a four-storey mound of rubble in Thailand,hoping to get news for worried families in their home town 1000 kilometres away.
Although the violence of the Bangkok building collapse in the massive earthquake is sapping hope that the rest of the missing will be found alive,not all is lost.
Holly and Josie were excited to have scored the final two seats on a snorkelling boat as they left their Bali hostel and headed to the port that morning. But what happened once onboard would leave them traumatised.
A passenger on the snorkelling boat that flipped in rough seas has recounted horrifying details of the tragedy,including how her badly injured daughter has been left traumatised by the death of Australian tourist Anna Blight.