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Dysfunctional Thailand Allowed Airport Seizures
Saturday, 29 November 2008, 3:12 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Travelers, businessmen and reporters, unable to fly through Bangkok's barricaded airports, were telling the world on Friday about dysfunctional Thailand, including a prediction that Al Qaeda terrorists will be delighted to learn ... More >>
"State Of Emergency" At Bangkok's Airports
Friday, 28 November 2008, 9:45 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat clamped a "state of emergency" on Bangkok's two main airports on Thursday, and ordered the navy, air force and police to remove protesters who barricaded thousands of passengers from arriving or departing. More >>
Yellow-Shirt Mob Seizes Bangkok's Int. Airport
Thursday, 27 November 2008, 10:13 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The victory by mobs wearing royalist yellow shirts, who easily seized Bangkok's glistening international airport and blocked thousands of arriving and departing passengers, is a calculated gamble to see who can provoke the most ... More >>
Bangkok Dangerous: Bombs, Sleaze & Paralysis
Friday, 21 November 2008, 10:06 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- A series of deadly bombings, including Thursday's (November 20) attack which killed one person and injured 29 others, have shattered this Buddhist-dominated capital's polite, care-free ambiance, and worsened the paralysis within Thailand's ... More >>
Escaping Alcatraz? Keep Swimming & Don't Get Shot
Thursday, 30 October 2008, 4:34 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
ALCATRAZ ISLAND, California -- To escape from this prison built on jagged rocks in the San Francisco Bay, an inmate needed to swim through poisonous jellyfish, numbness, exhaustion, tides, and angry guards trying to kill him. More >>
Burma's Suu Kyi Under Arrest For 13 Years
Friday, 24 October 2008, 12:34 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The world's most famous political prisoner, Aung San Suu Kyi, completes 13 years under house arrest on Friday (October 24), refusing to leave Burma for freedom in self-exile because she fears the military regime would block her future ... More >>
Thailand & Cambodia - Two Buddhist Nations Battle
Thursday, 16 October 2008, 1:23 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The latest gunfire and two deaths along the disputed Thai-Cambodian border on Wednesday (October 15) threaten to escalate into open warfare between these two Buddhist countries, pitting Bangkok's U.S.-trained military against some of the ... More >>
"Land of Smiles" Mutates Into a Painful Grimace
Saturday, 11 October 2008, 8:43 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Bloody political street fighting, and ominous demands for another military coup, have split this usually mellow Buddhist country, mutating its "Land of Smiles" logo into a painful grimace. More >>
Ehrlich IV With Political Cartoonist Pat Oliphant
Wednesday, 24 September 2008, 5:00 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
SAN FRANCISCO -- Political cartoonist Pat Oliphant, who wields ink to warn and ridicule, hopes U.S. presidential candidate John McCain "would disappear" and fears vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin is "obviously not ready to be the leader ... More >>
Thailand's Crippled Government Appoints New PM
Thursday, 18 September 2008, 10:43 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Thailand's crippled government appointed on Wednesday (September 17) a new prime minister, Somchai Wongsawat, but the soft-spoken bureaucrat with questionable family relations faces the same anti-democracy forces which toppled ... More >>
Anti-Government Mobs Cripple Bangkok
Wednesday, 27 August 2008, 10:02 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- An angry Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej vowed on Tuesday (August 26) not to resign, despite being locked out of his office building when more than 30,000 rowdy protestors crippled Bangkok, hoping to topple his elected government. More >>
Thaksin: The World's Newest International Fugitive
Saturday, 16 August 2008, 1:39 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The world's newest international fugitive from arrest is a wealthy, square-faced man with a PhD. in criminal justice from a university in Texas, and a former hand-holding ally of U.S. President George W. Bush. More >>
Bush In Bangkok Blasts Burma & China
Friday, 8 August 2008, 11:47 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
A billboard, advertising English language lessons, hopes to attract customers who want to understand Americans. More >>
Counterfeit Passports For Sale
Wednesday, 25 June 2008, 2:36 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- U.S. and Thai security officials spent much of June probing Bangkok-linked international gangs, after police seized thousands of counterfeit and genuine American and foreign passports and pages, including passports smuggled ... More >>
Burma Blames Suu Kyi & Fake Donors For Riots
Friday, 30 May 2008, 2:57 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- After extending Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest for one year, Burma's military junta on Thursday (May 29) blamed her political party members, and fake donors, for inciting Cyclone Nargis survivors to ... More >>
Enemies Burma & America Meet Over Cyclone Aid
Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 1:32 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The U.S. military commander of the Pacific, Adm. Timothy J. Keating, met Burmese military officers in Burma on Monday for the first time, to jointly examine maps of the cyclone- ravaged Irrawaddy delta, during a successful ... More >>
First U.S. Aid Flight To Burma
Monday, 12 May 2008, 11:46 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The U.S. prepared its first airlift of relief supplies to Burma's cyclone victims, but the flight scheduled for Monday will not include America's Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) because they were denied visas, U.S. officials said. More >>
Burma Stages A Vote While Cyclone Victims Suffer
Sunday, 11 May 2008, 1:46 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Burma's regime focused its time, manpower and propaganda on winning approval for a new constitution on Saturday to increase the military's domination, while the U.N. and other organizations flew in aid to rescue more than one million ... More >>
Burma Blocks Aid, Fearing Subversive Foreigners
Saturday, 10 May 2008, 2:48 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Burma has blocked the cyclone-stricken country from most international relief efforts, and is instead telling citizens to vote on Saturday for a new constitution which will entrench the military regime's domination. More >>
U.S. Aid Team Stuck Waiting For Burma Visas
Friday, 9 May 2008, 6:15 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- America's Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) team said Thursday it was stuck in Bangkok hoping Burma would issue visas, so the U.S. could provide water, food, shelter and safety to countless thousands of people suffering ... More >>
