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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 >>
Burma Not Thankful For US Warships Offering Aid
Thursday, 8 May 2008, 4:03 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- When Burma's biggest enemy the United States offered to send emergency cyclone relief, it probably sounded like North Korea wanting to send its warships and troops to New Orleans to rescue people in the aftermath of Katrina. More >>
Cyclone Help For Irrawaddy Delta Survivors
Wednesday, 7 May 2008, 10:04 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Wounded and terrified survivors waited for help on Tuesday, picking through flimsy bamboo, thatch and wooden wreckage in villages flattened by Cyclone Nargis, which Burma's military regime said killed more than 22,000 people ... More >>
America's Secret Plan To Nuke Vietnam & Laos
Wednesday, 16 April 2008, 10:34 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The U.S. Air Force wanted to use "nuclear weapons" against Vietnam in 1959 and 1968, and Laos in 1961, to obliterate communist guerrillas, according to newly declassified secret U.S. Air Force documents. More >>
Richard S. Ehrlich: Coups & Superstitions
Thursday, 10 April 2008, 10:28 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Coup-crazy Thailand is spooked about another possible putsch, after Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej condemned a fortune teller who met the frustrated leader of the 2006 coup. More >>
Accused "Lord of War" Fights Extradition
Tuesday, 18 March 2008, 10:09 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency's attempt to extradite a Russian, Viktor Bout, to America for alleged terrorism is not supported by evidence and is based on "blah blah blah," according to his lawyer. More >>
Electro-Shock In Kathmandu
Wednesday, 5 March 2008, 1:14 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- When this nation's capital is cut off from electricity, survival becomes a surreal mix of medieval streets lit by candles, people stimulated as if in a Pavlov experiment, and concern that climate change and poverty may doom Kathmandu. ... More >>
Richard Ehrlich: Ex-Prime Minister Thaksin Returns
Friday, 29 February 2008, 8:01 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
After orchestrating a stunning political victory over the military which ousted him in a 2006 coup, former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra returned on Thursday (February 28) from 17 months in self-exile and surrendered to face corruption charges. More >>
Richard Ehrlich: Backpackers Rescue Ancient Hoi An
Wednesday, 6 February 2008, 10:16 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
Foreign backpackers and the United Nations have helped Vietnam's communists rescue this exquisite town, which became dilapidated after wealthy shippers and merchants abandoned it more than 100 years ago. More >>
Richard S. Ehrlich: Warnings Not To Seek Revenge
Tuesday, 29 January 2008, 10:07 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
Criticized as a rude right-wing demagogue, 72-year-old Samak Sundaravej was named prime minister on Monday (January 28), amid warnings that he must not seek revenge against military leaders who ousted his partner in a coup. More >>
Richard S. Ehrlich: On Sale In Communist Vietnam
Thursday, 10 January 2008, 1:17 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
"The communists still control the government, but now they allow capitalism, because they know they were wrong," said a Vietnamese man who suffered several months in a communist "re-education" camp in 1975 because he collaborated with Americans. More >>
She's Back! Thaksin's Wife Returns
Thursday, 10 January 2008, 8:58 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
Submitting to "her surrender" and challenging Bangkok's coup-installed junta, fugitive Pojaman Shinawatra returned to Thailand on Tuesday (January 8) to defend her role in alleged corruption committed when her husband was prime minister. More >>
Thai Voters Defy Coup Leaders
Wednesday, 26 December 2007, 9:32 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Rebellious voters defied Thailand's 15-month- old military coup, and cast their ballots overwhelmingly for a politician who supports ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, despite the junta's tribunals which indicted Mr. ... More >>
Thailand Divides On Election
Friday, 21 December 2007, 1:38 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Thailand's upcoming election on Sunday (December 23) may be won by an "ultra right-wing" politician whose plan to defy last year's coup and bring back disgraced Thaksin Shinawatra from self-exile could bitterly divide ... More >>
