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Alcohol & Politics: A Volatile Mix in Thailand
Monday, 12 March 2012, 2:02 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
One of Thailand's most powerful politicians has denied accusations that "he was drunk" in Parliament, prompting a lively public debate about alcohol use by politicians and the legal limits on reporting such allegations. More >>
Signs Allegedly Posted by Iranian Bombers Baffle Bangkok
Thursday, 23 February 2012, 11:05 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
Police discovered on Wednesday (Feb. 22) more signs, printed with an Arabic word describing "baked clay," pasted on Bangkok's streets allegedly by Iranians who prematurely set off bombs made of clay-like C-4 explosives while plotting to assassinate Israeli ... More >>
Iranians Allegedly Posted Baked Clay Signs to Attack Bangkok
Wednesday, 22 February 2012, 10:35 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
Three Iranians who were arrested for allegedly setting off clay-like C-4 bombs in Bangkok on Valentine's Day, pasted more than 50 signs printed with an Arabic word describing "baked clay" pinpointing more than 27 sites including near the American ... More >>
Alleged Iranian Bomb-Maker Blows Off His Own Leg
Tuesday, 21 February 2012, 10:55 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
Israel and the U.S. issued emergency warnings after a suspected Iranian bomb-maker blundered by exploding his rented safe-house and challenging police in Bangkok's streets, resulting in injuries to four civilians and accidentally blowing one of ... More >>
Alleged Iranian Bombers Cavorted With Thai Women
Saturday, 18 February 2012, 6:53 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
Alleged Iranian Bombers Cavorted With Thai Women at Beach Resort By Richard S. Ehrlich BANGKOK, Thailand -- Police hunted on Friday (Feb. 17) for a fifth alleged terrorist who may have taught three arrested Iranians how to bomb Israeli diplomats in Bangkok, ... More >>
Richard S. Ehrlich: Alleged Iranian Bomb-Makers Arrested
Thursday, 16 February 2012, 2:46 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Malaysia arrested on Wednesday (Feb. 15) an alleged member of an Iranian bomb-making gang who plotted to assassinate Israeli diplomats, one day after he fled Bangkok where their house exploded and another Iranian had destroyed ... More >>
A Banquet Feasts on Yingluck's Troubles in Thailand
Wednesday, 1 February 2012, 5:25 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
After guests toasted a princess during a royal banquet inside the Grand Palace, dinner talk turned to Thailand's troubled, five-month-old government, stumbling from crisis to crisis, including its newest decision which places one of its cabinet members ... More >>
Thai Government Promotes Red Shirt Leader & Mugabe Supporter
Thursday, 26 January 2012, 11:46 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- A Thai businesswoman, who is banned by the U.S. Treasury Department from doing business with Americans because she allegedly facilitated financial transactions for Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's wife, has been appointed as the prime minister's ... More >>
Terror Suspect Says Ammonia in "Cool Packs" Not For Bombs
Saturday, 21 January 2012, 3:08 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- An imprisoned Lebanese-Swedish terror suspect said he stockpiled medical "cool packs" which "contained ammonia" for commerical export, and is not a Hezbollah member, after being arrested for possessing 10 gallons (38 liters) of ... More >>
Alleged Terrorist Reveals Bomb-Making Chemicals in Bangkok
Wednesday, 18 January 2012, 4:15 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
When the United States Embassy issued a travel advisory about "foreign terrorists" in Bangkok last weekend, the warning may have prevented a massive car bombing in an area popular with Western tourists. More >>
Thailand's Islamist War Could Become Yemen or Afghanistan
Monday, 16 January 2012, 5:14 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Thailand's war against minority Islamist guerrillas in the south, which killed more than 5,000 people during the past eight years, could escalate into an international security crisis similar to Yemen or Afghanistan, Britain's ... More >>
U.S., Israel & Thailand Hunt Hezbollah "Terrorists"
Saturday, 14 January 2012, 10:50 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Security officials arrested a suspected Hezbollah "terrorist" attempting to leave the country on Friday (January 14) from Bangkok's international airport, after a three-week investigation involving Israel, Thailand's prime minister, ... More >>
Ehrlich: Burma Frees a Comedian to Travel to America
Sunday, 25 December 2011, 10:28 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Burma's most famous dissident comedian, who survived "electronic shock" torture during eight years in prison, has been allowed out of his Southeast Asian country for the first time and is traveling to the Clinton Foundation in America ... More >>
Thailand's Fugitive Ex-Prime Minister Fails to Get Pardon
Thursday, 24 November 2011, 4:47 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
The government's first apparent attempt to win an amnesty for former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who is a convicted international fugitive, failed after it was condemned as inappropriate to include him among 26,000 criminals eligible for a possible ... More >>
Struggling to Survive Bangkok's Worsening Floods
Friday, 11 November 2011, 9:55 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Worsening floods, which killed 506 people, are inundating more of Bangkok, prompting warnings about how to avoid disease, electrocution, crocodiles and other dangers in the infectious, garbage-strewn water which thousands of people ... More >>
Floods Dissolve Thailand's Superficial Can-Do Image
Monday, 24 October 2011, 8:23 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Thailand's new prime minister is suffering criticism for her failures while tackling massive floods which killed 356 people, knocked out U.S. and other foreign factories, and rendered thousands of people homeless, but three ... More >>
Bangkok Becomes Medieval-Style Fortress Against Deadly Flood
Friday, 21 October 2011, 11:24 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
Floods have smothered much of Thailand, killing at least 317 people and prompting Bangkok to surround itself with makeshift walls, leaving those outside the perimeter to suffer from diverted water, reminiscent of medieval times when people dug moats ... More >>
Worsening Floods in Thailand Kill and Destroy
Monday, 10 October 2011, 4:58 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
The worst floods in decades have killed 261 people, swamped an export manufacturing zone, and caused millions of dollars in damage to crops and property while government officials publicly prayed to Buddha and prepared Bangkok for a destructive deluge. More >>
Nazis, the Holocaust, and World War II Haunt Thailand
Tuesday, 4 October 2011, 11:47 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
A parade by proud students wearing Nazi uniforms with swastika armbands, carrying toy rifles and led by a girl dressed as Hitler with a fake moustache, has resulted in condemnation by the U.S.-based Simon Wiesenthal Center and public debate in Thailand ... More >>
C.I.A. Torture Chamber at Bangkok's International Airport?
Wednesday, 28 September 2011, 11:51 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency may have used Bangkok's former Don Muang International Airport as its secret prison to torture a suspected Muslim terrorist, the first time a specific location has ever been described within Thailand, according to statements ... More >>
