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...ruled out the idea of retaliating with force against the insurgents. At the same time he ordered a dramatic increase in security at the nation's airports, embassies, and major commercial and tourist centers. Last week, hundreds of checkpoints and surveillance cameras were set up across Bangkok, including on Khao San Road, a tourist strip popular with backpackers. "We must remain vigilant," says one senior military intelligence official. "[The militants now] have the ability to strike anywhere...
...challenge of identifying the corpses is compounded by the bodies' disfigurements. By the time they reach the morgues, most are so decomposed that it's difficult even to determine their ethnicity. At Yan Yao Temple, a makeshift morgue near the worst-hit resorts of Khao Lak, forensic experts in protective clothing and masks are working 18-hour days, pacing through wreaths of vapor from the dry ice used to preserve the decomposing bodies. Each corpse is numbered; under standard international practice, the bodies must then be positively identified via dental records, fingerprints or DNA before they are released...
...with missing friends or relatives cannot bear to sit and wait while the scientists complete their work. Idan Geva and some other young professionals flew to Thailand from Israel to search for two friends--Aya Shapira, 27, and her boyfriend Uzi Sagi, 28. "They were staying somewhere in the Khao Lak area," says Geva. "We're searching the area for some kind of clue." Working on little food or sleep, Geva's group has pored over lists of victims on a website so heavily trafficked by bereaved relatives that it sometimes crashes and has examined hundreds of corpses despite warnings...
...interesting clue finally emerged. In a Khao Lak dive shop, Sagi's and Shapira's names appeared on a waiting list for a diving trip, along with their resort name and room number. Geva's group--which met with members of ZAKA, an Israeli volunteer organization famous for collecting body parts of terrorism victims to give them proper Jewish burials--combed through the wrecked resort but found nothing more. The pair had perhaps been washed out to sea. Geva's only hope is that experts will eventually identify the two on the basis of the dental records and DNA samples...
...German steelmaker ThyssenKrupp AG, which has units in India and Thailand, says it will spend up to €2.5 million rebuilding hard-hit villages in Madras, India, and near Khao Lak beach in Phuket, Thailand. The company will also build an orphanage in each country and secure financing for the psychological care of youngsters there. "We want to show that we feel connected to these countries in which we have been active for decades," says ThyssenKrupp CEO Ekkehard Schulz. British American Tobacco's Sri Lankan division, Ceylon Tobacco Company, has pledged to rebuild a destroyed village, too. British American Tobacco...