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Surviving a "Shutdown Bangkok" by Stockpiling
Wednesday, 15 January 2014, 4:03 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
Tens of thousands of protesters are attempting to "shutdown Bangkok," blockading streets and crippling banks, businesses, and government ministries while authorities do little to stop the campaign to topple the elected government and replace it with ... More >>
Bangkok's Shut Down and Coup Fears Cripple Thailand
Thursday, 9 January 2014, 5:37 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Security forces and six million residents are worriedly preparing to survive a 19-day "shutdown Bangkok" protest beginning on Monday (Jan. 13), designed to topple the elected government amid fears that the military may help ... More >>
Anti-Election Protesters Unable to Stop Thailand's Candidate
Tuesday, 24 December 2013, 5:23 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Police stood by while hundreds of people laid siege to the Election Commission's office, a police station, and Thailand's equivalent of the U.S. FBI, but the protesters failed to stop candidates registering for a nationwide election ... More >>
U.S.-Trained Army Supports Thailand's Election
Thursday, 19 December 2013, 12:25 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
Thailand's U.S.-trained military appears to support next February's endangered election, and oppose a right-wing insurrection bent on destroying the government, seizing power, blacklisting politicians, and cancelling the polls. More >>
Bangkok's Right-Wing "Revolution" amid Murder Indictments
Friday, 13 December 2013, 3:45 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
A court on Thursday (Dec. 12) indicted former prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva for alleged murders, but his deputy did not arrive for the same indictment because he was whipping up a right-wing "people's revolution" which cut off the prime minister's ... More >>
When a Lenin Statue Falls in Ukraine, Vietnamese Cannot Hear
Friday, 13 December 2013, 11:37 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
Vietnam erased online news by the British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) and other media about protesters toppling a Vladimir Lenin statue in Ukraine, because it "struck a nerve" among Vietnam's communist regime amid possible concerns about statues of ... More >>
Insurrection Leader Strangles Bangkok as Government Crumbles
Tuesday, 10 December 2013, 4:50 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
Hours after the prime minister dissolved parliament on Monday (Dec. 9), a tough-talking "insurrection" leader strangled Bangkok's streets with more than 100,000 protesters, rejected a nationwide election scheduled for Feb. 2, and declared a right-wing "people's ... More >>
Violence Worsens in Bangkok's "Insurrection"
Wednesday, 4 December 2013, 5:31 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
Violence worsened on Monday (Dec. 2) between anti-government mobs using a hijacked bulldozer, fire engine, garbage truck and homemade explosives to attack police who responded for the first time with rubber bullets after the prime minister rejected ... More >>
Thailand Protesters Demand Appointed Regime
Monday, 2 December 2013, 6:53 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The authoritarian leader of an increasingly violent anti-government protest met Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Sunday (Dec. 1) and told her to resign so a dictatorial provisional regime could run Thailand and stop voters electing ... More >>
Bangkok Crippled & Government Offices Seized
Tuesday, 26 November 2013, 7:05 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- In the biggest anti-government street protest in years, tens of thousands of people crippled Bangkok on Monday (Nov. 25), storming and occupying the foreign and finance ministries, and swarming around military, police and other ... More >>
World Council of Churches Supports Gay and Intersex People
Wednesday, 13 November 2013, 4:44 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
A ten-day meeting of the World Council of Churches (WCC) ended in South Korea after expressing support for the world's lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex community, reunification of the war-torn Korean peninsula, African rape victims and ... More >>
Twitter Prisons for Tweeting in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia
Friday, 1 November 2013, 11:44 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
In Kuwait, a Shia Muslim man's 10-year prison sentence has been upheld by the Court of Appeals which found him guilty of "insulting" Islam and the Sunni Muslim monarchies of Bahrain and Saudi Arabia when he posted statements on Twitter. More >>
Saudi Arabia's King, Islamists & Police Stop Women Who Drive
Thursday, 31 October 2013, 6:10 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
Police in Saudi Arabia stopped and fined at least 16 women who intentionally drove cars on Saturday (Oct. 26) after the monarchy and Islamist clerics refused to support demands to give drivers' licenses to females. More >>
Dalai Lama Supports Medical Marijuana But Not "Crazy" Use
Saturday, 19 October 2013, 12:11 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The Dalai Lama said he supports the use of medical marijuana, but if a person smokes the plant to get "a crazy mind, that's not good." More >>
Singapore's Haj Pilgrims to Mecca Are Younger, Spending More
Wednesday, 16 October 2013, 12:31 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
Muslims in prosperous Singapore are spending more money when they travel on a religious haj pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, compared with previous years when they scrimped and saved, and they are also now going when they are younger. More >>
10 Years in Jail for "Naked Dancing" in Saudi Arabia
Friday, 11 October 2013, 12:33 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
A Saudi Arabian court sentenced four men to prison for up to 10 years, plus up to 2,000 lashes with a whip, after they were convicted in what the local media dubbed as the "naked dancing" case, Al-Sharq newspaper reported. More >>
Saudi Arabian Women Driving Cars Won't Damage Their Ovaries
Monday, 7 October 2013, 12:19 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
Saudi Arabian women scored a hilarious boost to their campaign for the right to drive when an Islamist cleric became an international laughingstock for insisting ovaries suffer damage if women hold a steering wheel because it "pushes the pelvis upwards." More >>
India's Hindu Temples Possess Gold Worth Half of Fort Knox
Saturday, 5 October 2013, 12:31 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- India's Hindu temples possess donated gold which may equal half of America's Fort Knox bullion, but some are rejecting demands by the government to reveal the value of their sacred stockpiles. More >>
Russia's Anti-Koran Verdict and a "Crazy American Pastor"
Monday, 30 September 2013, 12:02 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
Top Muslim leaders in the Council of Muftis of Russia warned President Vladimir Putin it was wrong and dangerous for a court to order the banning and destruction of a Russian translation of the Koran, and compared it to "crazy American pastor" Terry ... More >>
Iran Tweets Greetings to Jews & Does Not Deny Holocaust
Wednesday, 25 September 2013, 1:35 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
Iran's foreign minister says the newly elected government does not deny the Holocaust, is not anti-Semitic and tweeted Rosh Hashanah greetings to all Jews, but is still against political Zionism. More >>
