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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 >>
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 >>
