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China Escalates Drug War into Southeast Asia's Mekong River
Tuesday, 4 June 2013, 6:32 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
After executing four killers from Thailand, Laos and Myanmar last year, China's security forces have extended their reach by uniting those countries along the Mekong River in a "war on drugs" and arrested 812 people in the narcotics-rich Golden ... More >>
Racism at the Heart of Fight among Buddhists and Muslims
Wednesday, 22 May 2013, 3:14 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
Buddhists and Muslims are clashing with increasing ferocity in Myanmar, Thailand and Sri Lanka where minority Islamic ethnic groups blame racism by majority Buddhists more than religious intolerance. More >>
Southeast Asia: Sex Workers' Art Exhibition
Tuesday, 7 May 2013, 10:55 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
Southeast Asian sex workers, supported by the United Nations, exhibited their paintings, photographs and multimedia depicting violence, oral sex, repression under Islamic sharia law and other personal experiences. More >>
Buddhists Irked by Buddha on Toilets and as Disney's Dog
Friday, 12 April 2013, 2:02 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
A Buddhist group says it successfully convinced a French factory to stop printing Buddha's face on toilets, but failed in a lengthy campaign to censor a Walt Disney movie series featuring a dog named Buddha. More >>
US Photographer Al Rockoff Testifies at Khmer Rouge Tribunal
Thursday, 28 March 2013, 5:25 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
An American combat photographer said his picture of captured U.S.-backed Cambodian officials, hours before they were "bludgeoned to death" by Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge in 1975, is one of the most important pieces of testimony he gave at an international tribunal. More >>
The Death of Ieng Sary, Cambodia's "Murderous Thug"
Thursday, 28 March 2013, 11:25 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- In November 1975, seven months after Pol Pot seized Cambodia, then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger asked Thailand's representatives about Pol Pot's brother-in-law, Ieng Sary. More >>
Cambodia: Former King Sihanouk's War of Words Survives
Wednesday, 27 February 2013, 10:43 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
Former king Norodom Sihanouk was cremated on February 4, but the flames could not destroy the legacy of his words, describing how he transported weapons to Vietnam's communists to kill Americans, and promising guns and ammunition to Cambodians to ... More >>
Christian Kachin Guerrillas Are Crippled in Myanmar
Monday, 4 February 2013, 5:48 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
In Myanmar, the regime's helicopter gunships, mortars and other weapons are successfully crippling a 52-year-long struggle for autonomy waged by mostly Christian, ethnic minority Kachin guerrillas along the northernmost border with China. More >>
Taliban Won't Turn Petraeus's Adultery into Propaganda
Tuesday, 20 November 2012, 12:00 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
Afghanistan's Taliban "obviously" could "explore" the possibility of turning Gen. David Patraeus's adultery into anti-American propaganda, but "there are probably other issues that they could focus on, besides the Petraeus matter," U.S. Defense ... More >>
Panetta: Taliban Won't Turn Petraeus Story Into Propaganda
Saturday, 17 November 2012, 1:57 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
Panetta Expects Taliban Won't Turn Petraeus's Adultery Into Propaganda By Richard S. Ehrlich BANGKOK, Thailand -- Afghanistan's Taliban "obviously" could "explore" the possibility of turning Gen. David Patraeus's adultery into ... More >>
Asia's Best & Worst Places to be a Sex Worker
Tuesday, 30 October 2012, 9:38 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
Asia's Best & Worst Places to be a Sex Worker By Richard S. Ehrlich BANGKOK, Thailand -- Thailand and New Zealand sound like the best places in Asia to be a prostitute because repressive laws, religions, traditions and other controls make sex workers' ... More >>
China Mourns Sihanouk and Continues Advancing in Cambodia
Wednesday, 17 October 2012, 10:10 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
China Mourns Sihanouk's Death & Continues Advancing in Cambodia By Richard S. Ehrlich BANGKOK, Thailand -- The death of Cambodia's Norodom Sihanouk on Monday (Oct. 15) in Beijing symbolized how China had sheltered him in a mansion with personal ... More >>
13 Murders on the Mekong River
Tuesday, 9 October 2012, 2:19 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
A Burmese drug lord and five gang members pleaded guilty in China to murdering 13 innocent Chinese sailors on the Mekong River, and loading nearly one million illegal amphetamine pills onto their two cargo ships during a murky smuggling scam. More >>
America Spends $49 Million in Vietnam to Remove Agent Orange
Friday, 10 August 2012, 2:07 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
A $49 million U.S. government effort began on Thursday (August 9) to cleanse deadly Agent Orange herbicide from a former air base in Danang, central Vietnam, where Americans stored, loaded and washed chemical weapons while spraying the country during the ... More >>
Fake "Bomb Detectors" Fail to Stop Explosions in Thailand
Saturday, 4 August 2012, 2:06 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Thailand's military, narcotics bureau, airports and other security forces bought 1,576 fake "bomb detectors" for $30 million, investigators said, which the army currently uses against Islamist guerrillas despite a U.S. Embassy ... More >>
NASA's Atmosphere Probe is Grounded by Thailand's Squabbling
Monday, 2 July 2012, 4:46 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was unable to convince Thailand to allow U.S. aircraft designed for "probing a vast expanse of the Southeast Asian atmosphere" to launch from a former Vietnam War-era American air base. More >>
Aung San Suu Kyi Leaves Burma After 24 Years
Tuesday, 5 June 2012, 3:55 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
Burma's Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi arrived in Bangkok on Tuesday (May 29), the first time since 1988 that she has been out of her country where she suffered more than 15 of house arrest before being elected to parliament in April. More >>
Illegal Methamphetamines Made From Drugs in Thai Hospitals
Wednesday, 23 May 2012, 6:20 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
Millions of Illegal Methamphetamines Made From Medicine in Thailand's Hospitals By Richard S. Ehrlich BANGKOK, Thailand -- Police said they seized one million illicit methamphetamine pills, weeks after discovering nearly 50 million legal tablets to ... More >>
Thaksin Wants to Avoid Assassination & Prison in Thailand
Tuesday, 8 May 2012, 10:19 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
Fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra hopes assassins will stop hunting him, and a deal can be arranged allowing him to dodge imprisonment and return home a free man. More >>
Aung San Suu Kyi Stoops to Conquer Burma
Saturday, 31 March 2012, 11:52 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
Aung San Suu Kyi Stoops to Conquer Burma By Richard S. Ehrlich BANGKOK, Thailand -- Burma's Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is predicted to easily win parliament seat in Sunday's (April 1) by-election, amid expectations that Washington will respond ... More >>