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Ehrlich: San Francisco's Revolutionary Graffiti
Tuesday, 13 January 2009, 4:22 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
SAN FRANCISCO -- Sleek limousines and ambitious "dot commies" have buffed this city with a glossy, corporate sheen, but revolutionary graffiti, gang killings, and financial havoc reveal that San Francisco's steep hills have turned into slippery politicized ... More >>
New Year Fireworks Inside Nightclub Kills 60
Friday, 2 January 2009, 4:19 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
People cheering "Happy New Year 2009" during a boozy Bad Boy Party, ignited fireworks inside an upscale nightclub, sparking an inferno which burnt to death 60 victims and injured 100 others who tried to escape. More >>
Counterfeit Money is a Genuine Worry for Thailand
Saturday, 27 December 2008, 12:52 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- In this mimic-happy land brimming with counterfeit designer goods, illegal software, duplicated movies, sham medicine, forged passports, and other professionally faked items, genuine fear has suddenly appeared. More >>
Canadian Man Accused of Sex Crimes in Thailand
Friday, 19 December 2008, 10:26 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- A Canadian who allegedly arranged for Americans to sexually abuse "prepubescent" boys in his home for payment, while he taught at a prestigious school in Bangkok, was arrested in London by the U.S. Justice Department ... More >>
Thailand: Bland, Squeaky Clean, Yuppie Becomes PM
Tuesday, 16 December 2008, 11:51 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Abhisit Vejjajiva, a bland, squeaky clean, yuppie politician who failed to win a national election, was chosen as prime minister on Monday, boosted by the military and Bangkok's elite after his opposition party formed a shaky coalition ... More >>
Unstable Thailand Prepares For Fresh Confrontation
Friday, 5 December 2008, 9:43 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Thailand's crippled government is struggling to find a new prime minister and prevent a return of protesters who easily sabotaged Bangkok's airports, stranding more than 300,000 travelers. More >>
Darwinian Struggle To Find Ticket Out Of Thailand
Monday, 1 December 2008, 8:40 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
Richard S. Ehrlich writes: In a Darwinian struggle, the rich buy tickets for expensive helicopters and chartered planes, flying from airstrips elsewhere in Thailand, while protesters blockade Bangkok's international and domestic airports. More >>
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 >>
