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Buddhist/Hindu Funerals: Upright Fetus or Burning Horizontal
Friday, 20 September 2013, 9:42 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
Rich or poor, king or commoner, when some Buddhists and Hindus die their funeral can include bending the corpse into an upright fetal position, or burying the body and later burning the bones in a "double funeral". More >>
Sexual Violence Against Women is Pervasive in Asia-Pacific
Thursday, 12 September 2013, 12:01 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
Sexual violence by men and teenagers raping and beating females, especially their wives, is "pervasive" in the Asia-Pacific region, a United Nations survey reported on September 10. More >>
Bangkok TV Soap Opera Attracts Muslim Anger and Scrutiny
Monday, 2 September 2013, 9:53 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
A TV station in Buddhist-majority Thailand has agreed to allow government-approved "Islamic experts" to revise a soap opera script after a small but vocal Muslim group complained that the show misrepresents their religion. More >>
Hindu Woman Who Became a Christian Suffered After Dying
Tuesday, 20 August 2013, 4:05 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
Hindus and Christians in eastern India refused to allow the burial funeral of a woman who converted from Hinduism to Christianity, and her body remained in dispute until police found a neutral site on government property. More >>
Muslim Malaysia Jails Woman for Washing Dogs during Ramadan
Tuesday, 13 August 2013, 10:19 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
Authorities in Muslim-majority Malaysia have jailed a dog trainer for uploading a video of herself washing and feeding dogs while an Islamic call to prayer plays as the soundtrack, but she denies insulting the religion which could result in five ... More >>
Unveiling Female Muslim Teachers So Students See Their Lips
Friday, 2 August 2013, 11:15 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
The Philippines, Asia's only Catholic-majority country, has ordered Muslim women to remove their facial veils when teaching the government's experimental curriculum of Arabic language and Islamic values, because students benefit by "seeing the teacher's ... More >>
Sex, Drugs, Murder & Money Dismay Thailand's Buddhists
Tuesday, 16 July 2013, 11:19 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
Saffron-robed Buddhist monks' involvement in sex, drugs, murder and corruption is being increasingly exposed in Thailand, thanks to YouTube, resulting in shock, dismay, condemnation and criminal investigations. More >>
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 >>
