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Breaking Bad: China's DeepSeek A.I. Reveals Taboos
Wednesday, 26 February 2025, 3:53 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
China employs extensive state-controlled surveillance, including facial recognition, social credit systems, and internet monitoring via the 'Great Firewall.' These tools enforce social compliance and suppress dissent, akin to the Thought Police and telescreens ... More >>
Chinese Criminals' International Scams & Kidnappings
Thursday, 13 February 2025, 2:25 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
“The United States and China [are] the two most strongly affected victims of the online scamming industry,” USIP said in a 2024 report on Chinese-dominated transnational crime based in Southeast Asia. More >>
The Billionaire Who Could Not Be Stopped
Monday, 10 February 2025, 3:41 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
Mr. Thaksin is now so larger-than-life that many allege he manipulates Thailand's government through his seemingly timid daughter Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra, 38, who was elected by Parliament in August and appears to eagerly agree with his ... More >>
Israel, Hostages, Thailand & Jobs
Tuesday, 4 February 2025, 8:42 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
Thailand was involved in delicate diplomatic efforts to gain their freedom, "so it does not want to create any problems that will cause any misunderstanding among parties involved in the conflict," then-Foreign Minister Parnpree Bahiddha-Nukara said. More >>
Pulverized By Asia's Tsunami
Monday, 30 December 2024, 2:58 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
Tourists were thronging Thailand's gorgeous southwest coast where Phuket island and the granite-studded, sandy beaches of Khao Lak became the hardest hit zones amid estuaries, mangroves, and sea cliffs. More >>
Chinese Upgrading A Hammerhead-Shaped Port With A Pakistan-China Joint Exercise
Thursday, 12 December 2024, 2:45 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
"The exercise will focus on joint counter-terrorism clean-up and strike operations," Chinese-government controlled Xinhua News Agency reported. More >>
Trump's Victory, Authoritarians & Trade Warriors
Wednesday, 20 November 2024, 1:55 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
Trump's victory may bring some relief for the leaders of three authoritarian, pro-China, Southeast Asian nations -- Myanmar, Laos, and Cambodia. His tough threats are expected to intimidate Asians hoping to move to the U.S. or profit from Chinese-U.S. trade. More >>
Chinese Criminals & Cheap Goods Annoying Thailand
Monday, 23 September 2024, 6:15 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
The flood of cheaper Chinese goods is hitting hard on the profits and market share of Thailand's manufacturers of steel, aluminum, plastics, ceramics, petrochemicals, and medical products. Chinese criminals are also endangering people in Thailand by ... More >>
Father Boosts Daughter To Rule Thailand
Wednesday, 18 September 2024, 6:24 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
"Thailand has become less important in the eyes of the U.S. side, compared to Singapore, Vietnam, the Philippines, and even Indonesia. The new Thai government has to review and reposition itself first." More >>
Bangkok To Beijing Train, Clickity-Clack, Clickity-Clack
Thursday, 22 August 2024, 3:38 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
With the Thai-Lao railway's new opening, a 12-hour-long train trip now runs from Bangkok's main Krung Thep Aphiwat Station to Khamsavath Station in Vientiane, the capital of Laos. More >>
Price Of The CIA's Secret War In Laos
Tuesday, 20 August 2024, 4:07 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- U.S. Air Force Sgt. David Price, disguised in civilian clothes as a Lockheed employee, was operating a "classified CIA" mountaintop navigation beacon in Laos for U.S. planes bombing Communist North Vietnamese troops when he ... More >>
The Political Banishment Of Popular Pita Limjaroenrat
Thursday, 15 August 2024, 7:15 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
Mr. Pita is widely seen as pro-U.S. at a time when Washington is competing with Beijing to influence this nation's capitalist economy, poorly disciplined military, and Bangkok's attempts to balance its diplomatic relations with both superpowers. More >>
Chinese Gangs Are "Pig Butchering" Americans
Monday, 29 July 2024, 9:11 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Human "pig butchering" scams have stolen billions of dollars from Americans rendering them financially devastated, heartbroken from fake love, and in worst cases suicidal, according to a new U.S. Institute of Peace ... More >>
Better-Paying Jobs In Israel's "Safe Areas"
Monday, 8 July 2024, 12:50 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
During the past 20 years, Thais have competed for the difficult jobs in Israel despite the instability and fighting. More >>
China Let Loose Their Robot Dogs Of War
Wednesday, 3 July 2024, 6:05 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
The 15-day Golden Dragon 2024 exercises were led by China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) Southern Theater Command guiding Beijing's closest ally in Southeast Asia, the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces. More >>
Thailand Is Freaking Out: Weed Too Strong & Popular
Wednesday, 5 June 2024, 3:46 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
China & America Manipulating "The Blue Continent"
Tuesday, 21 May 2024, 5:30 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
"Pacific nations have long felt their infrastructure needs have not been met, so if traditional partners like Australia, New Zealand, and the U.S. don’t provide the wharves and roads and airports, then it is hard for them to tell island countries ... More >>
China's Electric Vehicles Vs. U.S. And Japanese Cars
Monday, 20 May 2024, 11:55 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
By Richard S. Ehrlich BANGKOK, Thailand -- China's imported electric vehicles (EVs) are heavily denting U.S. and Japanese car sales in Thailand, so Chinese manufacturers are investing more than a billion dollars to assemble their EVs near Bangkok to expand ... More >>
Cambodia & China, Diverting The Mekong River
Monday, 22 April 2024, 3:49 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
Cambodia wants to divert Southeast Asia's Mekong River into a planned $1.7 billion, Chinese-financed shipping canal to reach a deep-sea port at Kep near Sihanoukville on southern Cambodia's Gulf of Thailand coast. More >>
A Coup, An Escape, A Conviction, And Freedom
Wednesday, 6 March 2024, 3:58 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
Eighteen years after a military coup toppled one of Thailand's most politically powerful leaders, former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra walked free on parole, finishing six months in a police hospital and sparking fears he now shares power ... More >>
