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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 >>
Thai Military Push Against Muslim Guerrillas Fails
Friday, 15 December 2006, 10:49 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- After staging a bloodless, right-wing coup to expand their political and economic control, Thailand's U.S.-trained military has been unable to crush Muslim guerrillas in the south, resulting in hundreds of Buddhists fleeing ... More >>
Thai's Coup Leaders Face A Southern Insurgency
Monday, 6 November 2006, 8:27 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The horror of 78 Muslim men who were forcibly tied up, laid out like logs in army trucks, crushed until their eyes bled and they suffocated to death, has not been forgotten despite the coup regime's apology. More >>
PM Shinawatra Willing To Stand Trial In Thailand
Monday, 6 November 2006, 2:10 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra is willing to stand trial for corruption and extrajudicial murders allegedly committed during his reign, and wants to return from self-exile when martial law is lifted, his lawyer said in ... More >>
Squabbling Erupts Among Thailand's Coup Plotters
Thursday, 2 November 2006, 3:51 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Six weeks after a bloodless military coup destroyed Thailand's democracy, squabbling has erupted among supporters of the putsch, amid worries that corrupt politicians are hiding illegal loot while the ruling junta dithers without ... More >>
Thai Junta Warns Of Risks Of Lifting Martial Law
Friday, 6 October 2006, 3:11 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The American Embassy on Wednesday (October 4) pressured Thailand's military junta to lift martial law within 10 days, but coup leader Gen. Sonthi Boonyaratkalin warned of problems "if martial law is lifted too soon." More >>
Thai Coup Leaders Promise Corruption Investigation
Friday, 29 September 2006, 9:38 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The military coup leaders promised to investigate alleged corruption committed during ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra's reign, including his family's 1.9 billion U.S. dollar telecommunications sale, Thailand's purchase of ... More >>
Thailand's Coup Plotters Award Themselves Immunity
Thursday, 28 September 2006, 11:20 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The military junta unveiled on Wednesday (September 27) a draft constitution awarding themselves "complete immunity" after they toppled Thailand's elected government in a bloodless coup, declared martial law, shredded the previous ... More >>
Post Coup Fears Keep US Troops From Thailand R&R
Tuesday, 26 September 2006, 11:28 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The U.S. military in South Korea warned its troops not to travel to Thailand because the aftermath of Bangkok's coup could turn anti-American, but about 60 Thais defied martial law on Monday (September 25) and denounced the new ... More >>
Thailand's New Constitution May Open Up Democracy
Monday, 25 September 2006, 9:35 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Thailand's new constitution should boost the right to strike and form unions, end discrimination against politicians without Bachelor's degrees, nationalize public and security infrastructure, and allow people to vote from any ... More >>
Thailand Coup Protests, Petitions & Prosecutions
Saturday, 23 September 2006, 12:13 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The wife of self-exiled billionaire Thaksin Shinawatra, and two of their adult children, did not flee abroad after a bloodless military coup toppled his elected government, paving the way for possible prosecution of his family ... More >>
Thai Coup Leaders Pursue Shinawatra Collaborators
Friday, 22 September 2006, 11:34 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Military coup leaders on Thursday (September 21) hunted for politicians, officials and other collaborators of the toppled elected government and hauled some in for questioning, after the billionaire prime minister, his family, ... More >>
Ehrlich: Thailand's Coup Junta's First Moves
Thursday, 21 September 2006, 11:30 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The six highest-ranking, U.S.-trained, military and police officers in this Southeast Asian nation presented themselves on Wednesday (September 20) as Thailand's new self-appointed coup leaders, warning people not to destabilize ... More >>
Thailand US Trained Military Mount Bloodless Coup
Wednesday, 20 September 2006, 8:45 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Troops from Thailand's U.S.-trained military, backed by tanks and armored personnel carriers, seized the prime minister's office on Tuesday (September 19) night and filled TV screens with propaganda, in a bloodless coup led by a "revolutionary ... More >>
