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A Woman May Win Thailand's "Clone" Versus "Puppet" Election
Tuesday, 7 June 2011, 12:16 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
Yingluck Shinawatra may become Thailand's first female prime minister next month, so Thais are focusing on her face, gender, inexperience and relationship to her "clone" brother, Thaksin, a popular premier who was overthrown by the U.S.-trained military ... More >>
Thailand Prepares for Election While Both Sides Demand Trial
Friday, 20 May 2011, 9:39 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- One year after troops crushed a nine-week insurrection in Bangkok which left 91 people dead and 2,000 injured, the government and rebellious Red Shirts remain polarized, demanding prison sentences for leaders on both sides while preparing ... More >>
Exploited Workers of Southeast Asia Unable to Unite
Monday, 2 May 2011, 2:44 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Tired, poor, huddled people seeking jobs in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, America and Europe have died on the high seas, suffocated in vehicles, toiled in sweatshops, and been expelled to countries where dictators lock them up. More >>
12 Dead After 4 Day Border Fight Between Thailand & Cambodia
Friday, 29 April 2011, 11:25 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Thailand and Cambodia fortified their border positions on Tuesday (April 26) after four days of artillery and mortar battles killed seven Cambodian soldiers and five Thai troops, while both sides tried to dominate nearby ancient ... More >>
12 Dead After Four-Day Thai-Cambodian Border Fight
Wednesday, 27 April 2011, 9:26 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
Thailand and Cambodia fortified their border positions yesterday after four days of artillery and mortar battles killed seven Cambodian soldiers and five Thai troops, while both sides tried to dominate nearby ancient Hindu temple ruins which are potentially ... More >>
CIA Suicide After a Life of God and Guns
Thursday, 7 April 2011, 10:15 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- William Young, a former U.S. Central Intelligence Agency paramilitary commander who spied on China and used tribesmen to kill Communists in Laos during the 1960s, died at home of a bullet to the head, clutching a crucifix alongside a ... More >>
CIA Suicide After a Life of God and Guns
Wednesday, 6 April 2011, 10:34 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- William Young, a former U.S. Central Intelligence Agency paramilitary commander who spied on China and used tribesmen to kill Communists in Laos during the 1960s, died at home of a bullet to the head, clutching a crucifix alongside a ... More >>
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 >>
