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Strait Of Hormuz Blockades & Thailand's Land Bridge
Tuesday, 5 May 2026, 1:47 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
China, the U.S. and other countries could use the 56-mile-long (90 km) Land Bridge for commercial, military and other shipping, potentially reducing fuel costs and time on routes to and from the Persian Gulf and South China Sea. More >>
Ex-U.S. Ambassador Scolds America
Wednesday, 29 April 2026, 12:01 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
"The reckless and erratic actions of the United States under President Trump have done extraordinary damage." More >>
Iran's Attack On Thailand's Ship Sours Relations
Tuesday, 24 March 2026, 3:37 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
The immediate challenge for Mr. Anutin, his Bhumjaithai (Proud to be Thai) party, and their coalition partners is how to lead Thailand through the repercussions of the Iran War. More >>
Intercepting Thailand's Gulf Ships To Deprive Cambodia
Sunday, 21 December 2025, 6:55 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
The conflict is concentrated along frontier territory claimed by both nations, causing havoc in Thailand's modernizing northeast border provinces of Surin, Buriram, Sisaket, Ubon Ratchathani, and Trat. More >>
Thailand Bombs Cambodian Casinos In Bloody Gamble
Saturday, 13 December 2025, 6:45 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
The U.S.-trained Thai army said on Thursday (Dec. 11) it suspects foreigners are helping Cambodia fly bomb-laden drones to hit specific targets, because Cambodia's unguided mortars and rocket launchers are inefficient. More >>
Scams & Money Laundering In Southeast Asia
Monday, 8 December 2025, 4:03 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
Many scam workers were kidnapped and tortured into fooling people online, while others eagerly chose to work for scammers in exchange for relatively high salaries, investigators said. More >>
China's Flawed A.I. Reveals Subversive Information
Tuesday, 11 November 2025, 1:18 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
DeepSeek's AI R-1 artificial intelligence app also warned any Chinese trying to "Make China Great Again" would be charged with sedition. More >>
World's Largest Hornets Sting Father & Son To Death
Thursday, 6 November 2025, 2:04 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
It was unclear why news of their deaths was not earlier reported, but all media is controlled by the Communist government in tiny, impoverished, landlocked Laos which is surrounded by China, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. More >>
Laos: 50 Years After The CIA's "Secret War"
Friday, 10 October 2025, 7:47 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
During the 1961-1975 war, the CIA's Air America flew thousands of flights each day, lifting off from more than 200 scattered covert Lima Sites -- military code for unimproved "landing strips." More >>
China's Monopoly Of Myanmar's Rare Earth
Friday, 19 September 2025, 2:26 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
The U.S. is locked out of extracting the raw supplies from Myanmar's mines which China dominates, processing 90% of the world's rare earth elements. More >>
War & Peace In Thailand & Cambodia
Thursday, 31 July 2025, 5:00 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
The fighting along Cambodia's northern border with Thailand coincides with a dangerously destabilizing breakup between the two nations' dynastic, billionaire, ruling families after decades of tight interlocking personal relations. More >>
Three Different Prime Ministers In One Week
Monday, 14 July 2025, 12:24 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
Acting Prime Minister Phumtham is a trusted aide of Ms. Paetongtarn's politically powerful father, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, a billionaire perceived as the de facto leader of Thailand who influences his politically naive daughter's ... More >>
Thailand's Prime Minister Zapped By Court & Suspended
Thursday, 3 July 2025, 3:11 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra's suspension came after the two countries briefly clashed on May 28 and Thai troops shot dead a Cambodian soldier in the Emerald Triangle where eastern Thailand, northern Cambodia, and southern Laos meet. More >>
Deadly Emerald Triangle Feud In Leaked Confidential Call
Tuesday, 24 June 2025, 2:36 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
Also at stake is Thailand's political stability and survival of its fragile, rival-packed coalition government which is denying perceptions of being obsequious and soft on Cambodia while the Royal Thai Army favors a strong response. More >>
Deadly Border Feud Between Thailand & Cambodia
Thursday, 12 June 2025, 8:04 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
In an official letter to Thailand's embassy in Phnom Penh, Cambodia's Foreign Ministry officially demanded an investigation and trial for Thailand's troops who "without provocation" allegedly killed the Cambodian. More >>
Pakistan & China Down 6 Indian Warplanes
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 1:15 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
Since the mid-20th century China has been arming, investing in, and helping to construct Pakistan which is a crucial nation in Beijing's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and a non-NATO ally of the U.S. More >>
Lisa's Underwear & Rosa Parks? Mystery Solved
Monday, 12 May 2025, 3:49 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
"None of the individuals depicted in any of the garments are Rosa Parks or other well-known figures from Black cultural history. They are all people from Henry’s own life," Louis Vuitton's statement to Vulture said. More >>
Cyber-Spying "From Lhasa To London" & Tibet Flexing
Wednesday, 7 May 2025, 2:57 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
The NSCS said it shared the warning with the U.S. National Security Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation, plus cyber security officials in Australia, Canada, Germany, and New Zealand. More >>
China's Great Wall & Egypt's Pyramids
Wednesday, 7 May 2025, 2:53 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
The China-Egypt Eagles of Civilization 2025 joint air force exercise began on April 19 and ends in early May, and is expected to strengthen Beijing's links with Africa's strongest military and a strategic U.S. ally. More >>
A Deadly Earthquake & Chinese Construction
Tuesday, 15 April 2025, 12:11 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
Washington and Beijing have been unofficially competing with each other for decades to influence Bangkok's diplomacy, politics, economy, and military through financial aid, investment, tourism, education, ancestorial ties, and other ways. More >>
