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Thailand Coup Anniversary
Tuesday, 18 September 2007, 11:44 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- One year after the military toppled Thailand's elected government in a bloodless coup, this Buddhist- majority ally of America now suffers splits over its failure to put ousted officials on trial for alleged corruption and extra-judicial ... More >>
Coup Punishment 1st Lede Writethru
Monday, 3 September 2007, 10:30 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Jakrapob Penkair, a leading enemy of Thailand's ruling junta, wants the military officers who staged last year's bloodless coup to be put on trial and jailed for life, and face possible execution. More >>
Richard S. Ehrlich: Coup Punishment
Friday, 31 August 2007, 11:52 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Jakrapob Penkair, a leading enemy of Thailand's ruling junta, wants the military officers who staged last year's bloodless coup to be put on trial and jailed for life, and face possible execution. More >>
Richard S. Ehrlich: Thailand Constitution
Sunday, 12 August 2007, 1:55 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Thailand's coup-installed military regime has told citizens to vote "yes" for a new constitution, written while half the country is muzzled under martial law, or accept a mysterious back-up constitution which is being ... More >>
British Ambassador David Fall
Monday, 30 July 2007, 1:17 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The British Ambassador to Thailand and Laos, David Fall, ended his career as a diplomat by giving a wildly hilarious, shockingly blunt, comedy performance of taboo jokes about Scotsmen using condoms, trigger-happy Americans, and sexual ... More >>
Slug: British Ambassador David Fall
Sunday, 29 July 2007, 12:48 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The British Ambassador to Thailand and Laos, David Fall, ended his career as a diplomat by giving a wildly hilarious, shockingly blunt, comedy performance of taboo jokes about Scotsmen using condoms, trigger-happy Americans, and sexual ... More >>
Richard S. Ehrlich: Khmer Rouge Trial (w. Images)
Saturday, 14 July 2007, 7:51 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Defending Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge leaders at an international tribunal may include arguing about genocide and the lack of a "smoking gun," despite the deaths of up to three million Cambodians, according to U.N. Principal ... More >>
Money Freezing
Friday, 15 June 2007, 11:54 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
Bangkok, Thailand -- The military junta, which seized power in a bloodless September coup, is wondering if the politically savvy wife of the ousted prime minister carried cash from corruption in two dozen luggage bags when she flew out of Thailand. More >>
Laos "Stinger" Terror Plot Busted In California
Sunday, 10 June 2007, 12:55 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- After a U.S. Justice Department undercover agent displayed a Stinger air-to-surface missile in a bugged Hilton Hotel room in Sacramento, California, paranoia began to spread. More >>
Photo Feature: Thailand's Last Executioner
Monday, 4 June 2007, 7:50 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- He shot 55 men and women in the back, killing them with a burst of bullets aimed at the heart, while each person was tied to a wooden cross. More >>
A Corrupting A Cosmic Crutch Emerges In Thailand
Monday, 14 May 2007, 1:06 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
Click for big version An inexpensive Jatukam Ramathep amulet, given to a Buddhist at a temple in Bangkok after the devotee offered a small donation. - Photo copyright by Richard S. Ehrlich More >>
A Burned Body Illustrates Martial Law In Thailand
Friday, 13 April 2007, 11:24 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Traumatized Thais scooped the charred chunks of a Buddhist woman's corpse off the street, wrapped the blackened pieces in white cloth, and showed the grisly evidence to Thailand's coup leader. More >>
Richard S. Ehrlich: Who Bombed Bangkok?
Thursday, 5 April 2007, 2:32 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- This Buddhist-majority nation is gripped with suspense over an unsolved, bloody New Year's Eve terrorist attack in Bangkok. Who planted nine bombs in the capital's streets during public count-down celebrations, killing three ... More >>
Six Months On Thai Coup Plotters Face Tough Times
Monday, 19 March 2007, 2:44 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Six months after the military grabbed power in a bloodless coup, Thailand faces a worsening Islamist insurgency, a plunging economy, fears of more Bangkok bomb blasts, and widespread despair. More >>
Thailand's Junta Warn Of Terror Attacks In Bangkok
Thursday, 1 March 2007, 1:39 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Thailand's U.S.-backed military regime is warning that Islamist insurgent infiltrators will try to bomb Bangkok and escalate their war for independence, which has killed 2,000 people in the past three years. More >>
Thailand's Junta Warn Of Terror Attacks In Bangkok
Wednesday, 28 February 2007, 2:37 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Thailand's U.S.-backed military regime is warning that Muslim infiltrators will try to bomb Bangkok and escalate their war for independence, which has killed 2,000 people in the past three years. More >>
How My Book Got Slashed In London's Tate Modern
Tuesday, 30 January 2007, 10:34 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- London's Tate Modern museum recently discovered a woman who, wielding a sharp blade, obsessively cut more than 80 words from 123 books, including our nonfiction tome, "Hello My Big Big Honey!" Love Letters to Bangkok Bar Girls ... More >>
Richard S. Ehrlich: Thailand Anti-Singapore
Friday, 19 January 2007, 10:22 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Official links between Thailand and Singapore, two of America's staunchest Southeast Asian military allies, have turned hostile amid security fears after the tiny island nation hosted former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, ... More >>
Shinawatra's Passport Cancelled, Son Interrogated
Thursday, 11 January 2007, 11:45 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The military junta, which overthrew prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra in a coup, cancelled his diplomatic passport on Wednesday (January 10) after linking his supporters to deadly New Year bomb blasts. More >>
Bangkok Bomb Plot
Thursday, 4 January 2007, 2:11 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Eight small bombs which killed three people and injured 38, including nine foreigners during Bangkok's New Year celebrations, were a plot by supporters of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, according to the military ... More >>
