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Surrogate Mothers Offered Everyone an "Efficient Embryo"
Tuesday, 22 March 2011, 10:41 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
Police and health officials are investigating an international illegal "efficient embryo" syndicate after discovering a house occupied by Vietnamese women who were allegedly inseminated and kept throughout their pregnancies so an Internet-based ... More >>
Sex Ring Busted: Canadian & Americans Abused Thai Kids
Thursday, 10 February 2011, 10:36 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- US investigators and Interpol successfully busted three Americans and a Canadian who traveled to Thailand and sexually abused pre-teen Thai boys, but human rights activists are still concerned that countless young victims remain unprotected. More >>
US Boots on the Ground Near Thai-Cambodian Border Fight
Thursday, 10 February 2011, 10:33 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Thousands of U.S. troops are currently training Bangkok's poorly disciplined, coup-prone military to "defend Thailand" while a bloody artillery duel between Thailand and Cambodia has disrupted their border, and a decades-long southern ... More >>
Banquet Guests & Street Protests
Saturday, 5 February 2011, 8:45 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- In the royal splendor of the Grand Palace's Chakri Throne Hall, invited dignitaries included the prime minister, a princess, a former military junta leader, America's newly arrived ambassador and others at a black-tie awards presentation. More >>
US Suggests 'Security Guarantees' For Burma's Dictators
Wednesday, 15 December 2010, 9:48 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Aung San Suu Kyi's "irrelevant" political party has "little concern for the social and economic plight of most Burmese," so America should offer "security guarantees" to Burma's military dictators and their families to remove ... More >>
"Wanted" Opium Warlord Competes With Topless Bar Girls
Monday, 13 December 2010, 10:01 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Will the world's drunks, playboys, voyeurs and tourists, gawking at topless prostitutes amid the naughty neon of Bangkok's tropical nights, help the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration catch the Golden Triangle's biggest alleged ... More >>
U.S. Agents Investigate Russian Killers/ Thieves in Thailand
Monday, 13 December 2010, 9:57 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- America's Federal Bureau of Investigation, Drug Enforcement Administration, Department of Homeland Security and other agents are investigating "Russian organized crime networks" who are murdering and stealing in Thailand's most ... More >>
American Predicts Aung San Suu Kyi Will Be Assassinated
Wednesday, 8 December 2010, 4:25 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The American who swam across a lake in 2009 and illegally spent two nights with Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in her home, resulting in an extension of her house arrest, said now that she is free, she will be "assassinated" ... More >>
Wikileaks: Russian Bribes "Infected" Bout's Extradition Case
Sunday, 5 December 2010, 7:41 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The U.S. Ambassador to Thailand warned that bribes, lies and a plot to have two U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents arrested in Bangkok had "infected" the extradition trial of alleged Russian arms smuggler Viktor ... More >>
Buddhist Temple Purges Ghosts of 2,000 Aborted Fetuses
Tuesday, 30 November 2010, 10:39 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Mournful Buddhist monks performed rituals to purge ghosts from a temple where more than 2,000 illegally aborted fetuses were hidden awaiting a secret cremation, but police said abortionists are now doing the operation in pregnant females' ... More >>
Cambodia's Festival Stampede Kills 378
Tuesday, 30 November 2010, 10:31 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Cambodian officials are investigating why a huge crowd panicked during a joyful Water Festival in Phnom Penh and stampeded across a narrow bridge, killing at least 378 people in Cambodia's worst tragedy since the Khmer Rouge's "killing ... More >>
Cambodia's Festival Stampede Kills 378
Thursday, 25 November 2010, 11:25 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Cambodian officials are investigating why a huge crowd panicked during a joyful Water Festival in Phnom Penh and stampeded across a narrow bridge, killing at least 378 people in Cambodia's worst tragedy since the Khmer Rouge's "killing ... More >>
Richard S. Ehrlich: U.S. Counter-Terrorism in Thailand
Wednesday, 24 November 2010, 2:03 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
A U.S. State Department agent who escaped after being kidnapped and beaten for two weeks by Iraqis, and who interrogated an Islamist involved in beheading Daniel Pearl in Pakistan, is now advising Thailand's police, palace guards and prime minister. More >>
2,000 Aborted Fetuses Discovered in a Buddhist Temple
Tuesday, 23 November 2010, 9:59 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
Buddhist-majority Thailand's anti-abortion laws will be enforced and police will raid illegal clinics, officials said, after discovering more than 2,000 aborted fetuses at a Buddhist temple where corrupt undertakers allegedly planned to secretly cremate ... More >>
Aung San Suu Kyi Gains Freedom & Challenges Regime
Tuesday, 16 November 2010, 4:05 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Freed after seven years under house arrest, Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi said Sunday (November 14) she will investigate "many allegations of vote-rigging" in last week's election, but offered to talk with the ruling military ... More >>
Burma: DKBA Turns on Regime as Elections Staged
Tuesday, 9 November 2010, 9:21 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Minority ethnic Karen Buddhist guerrillas continued attacking Burmese troops for a second day on Monday, leaving 10 people injured and prompting 15,000 refugees to flee eastern Burma, hours after the country manipulated an election ... More >>
Indonesian Volcano Hits People, Farms & Air Travel
Friday, 5 November 2010, 6:38 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Worsening eruptions from Indonesia's Merapi volcano killed at least 39 people, wiped out farmlands for the next 10 years, and forced airlines to cancel or divert flights along a volcano-studded "Ring of Fire" in Southeast Asia's ... More >>
China Sends in the Marines to Thailand
Saturday, 30 October 2010, 3:40 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- China is expanding its military reach by sending, for the first time, the Marine Corps of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) to train with another country during an October 26-November 14 exercise with Thailand. The U.S. and other ... More >>
Deadly Earthquake, Tsunami & Volcano Hit Indonesia
Thursday, 28 October 2010, 2:53 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Rescuers struggled Wednesday (October 27) to reach victims of Indonesia's earthquake, tsunami and volcano in two separate locations, where at least 113 people drowned along Sumatra island's coastal fault-line, while 18 more perished ... More >>
Deadly Bombs Make Bangkok Unsafe
Monday, 18 October 2010, 3:27 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Increasingly deadly bomb attacks across Bangkok have plunged this Buddhist-majority country into confusion, despair and fear because its military and police, who received years of counter-terrorism training by the U.S., are unable ... More >>
