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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 >>
Reds Seize Insurrection Intersection For Afternoon
Monday, 20 September 2010, 10:12 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- To mark the fourth anniversary of Thailand's 2006 coup, thousands of pro-democracy Red Shirts on Sunday (September 19) seized Bangkok's most luxurious intersection, and mourned the 91 Reds who died during clashes earlier this year when ... More >>
Viktor Bout & Thaksin in the Sky With Sirichoke?
Thursday, 2 September 2010, 4:32 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Suspected Russian weapons smuggler Viktor Bout, who is fighting against extradition to the U.S., said a Thai Parliamentarian asked him how to "intercept" the private jet of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra so the fugitive politician ... More >>
Moscow, Bangkok Argue On Extraditing Viktor Bout
Friday, 27 August 2010, 11:37 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva is trying to repair damaged relations with the Kremlin after Moscow's foreign minister condemned a decision to extradite a suspected Russian weapons smuggler, Viktor Bout, from Bangkok to New ... More >>
Thailand's Prime Minister & Military Unite
Wednesday, 4 August 2010, 12:02 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and the military are displaying a public show of unity, as the army prepares to install a hawkish commander after they defeated on May 19 a nine-week insurrection by "terrorist" Red Shirts. Army ... More >>
Thailand's PM & Military Unite After Crushing Reds
Tuesday, 3 August 2010, 3:41 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and the military are displaying a public show of unity, as the army prepares to install a hawkish commander after they defeated on May 19 a nine-week insurrection by "terrorist" Red Shirts. More >>
Thailand: Red Shirts Struggle to Survive Crackdown
Tuesday, 13 July 2010, 1:01 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- To prevent another urban insurrection, new CCTV cameras will eyeball streets where 90 people died, mostly civilians, and 1,400 were injured when the military battled Red Shirt protesters and crushed their bamboo barricades in ... More >>
Thailand Freezes Accounts to Hit Red Shirts
Wednesday, 23 June 2010, 2:21 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Thailand's military-backed government has frozen bank accounts belonging to wealthy suspected supporters of Bangkok's bloody insurrection, amid fears that the Red Shirts are plotting revenge after their bamboo barricades were ... More >>
Bangkok Burns After the Army Crushes Barricades
Thursday, 20 May 2010, 8:45 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Red Shirt protesters allegedly set fire to 40 buildings including luxury shopping malls, banks, the Stock Exchange and offices, after losing their stronghold when soldiers used armored personnel carriers to crush their barricades, ... More >>
Reds' Weapon of Choice: Burning Barricades
Tuesday, 18 May 2010, 6:48 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Black smoke billows from burning tires in the streets, creating small volcanoes fed by angry Red Shirt protesters armed with Molotov cocktails, slingshots and fireworks against trained snipers and inexperienced troops. Survival amid Bangkok's ... More >>
"Seh Daeng" Denies Leading a Death Squad
Tuesday, 11 May 2010, 6:05 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- He boasts of killing 20 Thai communists and fondly recalls working with the CIA, but denies suspicions that he leads a death squad, involved in bombings and shootings to help the Red Shirts cripple Bangkok. Major General Khattiya "Seh ... More >>
Two Faces Appear Behind Bangkok's Bamboo Barricade
Wednesday, 28 April 2010, 11:26 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Two Thai faces appear behind the sharpened bamboo poles and hundreds of car tires which form lengthy menacing barricades, now stinking of urine, rotten food and other debris, along Bangkok's busy downtown streets. The face of ... More >>
Finding "Terrorists" in the Thai "Banana Republic"
Friday, 16 April 2010, 5:04 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Searching among bloodstained streets and grainy videos, investigators are trying to identify a handful of mysterious, black-clad men who fired assault rifles and possibly grenade launchers during Bangkok's clash on April 10 which left ... More >>
Country Joe's "Fish" Opposes US War In Afghanistan
Thursday, 15 April 2010, 11:28 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- When Country Joe and The Fish performed their famous satirical protest song "Fixin' To Die" during the 1960s, they influenced many people to oppose America's disastrous Vietnam War. More >>
