Thailand's Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra (C) talks to Burkhard Hans-Rudolf, from Interlaken, Switzerland, while visiting tsunami wreaked Patong Beach on the Thai resort island of Phuket, January 2, 2005. Hans-Rudolf and his family members decided to vacation on the beach, which he has been visiting annually for the last 20 years, even after a tsunami devastated the southern tourist isles and beaches on December 26.