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Why Did John Mark Karr Confess Murder In Thailand?
Sunday, 20 August 2006, 9:14 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- When John Mark Karr stepped out of his grungy room on Si Bamphen street, delicious scents of grilled food wafted in Bangkok's sweaty air, while coquettish male and female prostitutes vogued on the sidewalk and taxis offered rides towards ... More >>
Ehrlich: Ramsey JonBenet Thailand Murder Presser
Friday, 18 August 2006, 3:18 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- A pale, clean-cut American was arrested in Bangkok a decade after the beating and strangulation murder of six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey, and said on Thursday (August 17), "I was with JonBenet when she died" in her Colorado basement ... More >>
US Cancer Quack "Doctor Ozone" Jailed In Thailand
Wednesday, 16 August 2006, 8:37 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Hellfried E. Sartori, whose medical license was revoked in Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Texas and Washington state, has been jailed in Thailand during an international investigation into the death of patients who received his "Doctor ... More >>
Ehrlich: Sartori Cancer
Friday, 11 August 2006, 2:28 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
Hellfried E. Sartori, whose medical license was revoked in Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Texas and Washington state, has been jailed in Thailand during an international investigation into the death of patients who received his "Doctor Ozone" anti-cancer injections. More >>
Richard S. Ehrlich: Aung San Suu Kyi On MySpace
Thursday, 3 August 2006, 5:03 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Aung San Suu Kyi, the word's most famous political prisoner, now has a MySpace.com Web page, created by a Washington DC organization which hopes Internet activists will help free her from house arrest in Rangoon and donate money. More >>
"God's Army" Surrenders To Burma's Coastal Command
Thursday, 27 July 2006, 3:25 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Mystical twin boys, reputedly born with black tongues and bullet-proof animist powers, no longer lead a deadly God's Army of 200 guerrillas along the violent Burma-Thailand border. More >>
4500 CIA Hmong Looking For A Ticket To The States
Friday, 21 July 2006, 1:53 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The CIA's saturation bombing of Laos killed thousands of people and reduced the tiny country to ruin three decades ago, but 4,500 men, women and children now hope America's failed "secret war" will result in free air tickets to ... More >>
Letter To Bush Puts Thai PM Back In Hot Water
Friday, 14 July 2006, 10:18 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The surprise publication of a secretive letter to U.S. President George W. Bush from Thailand's distraught prime minister, warning of a "threat to democracy in Thailand," has provoked outrage, satirical abuse, and loud indignation. More >>
Ehrlich: Aung San Suu Kyi Doomed Says Junta
Thursday, 6 July 2006, 11:35 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Burma's military regime warned the world's most famous political prisoner, Aung San Suu Kyi, that her days "are numbered," and she is "heading for a tragic end." More >>
Ehrlich: "Love, Drugs, And Politics" In Burma
Friday, 30 June 2006, 11:25 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- "Sex, drugs, rock and roll," may be the hedonistic slogan of young people in the West, but the repressive regime in Burma is more worried about youths involved in "love, drugs, and politics." More >>
Thai AG Declares Shinawatra Election Illegal
Friday, 30 June 2006, 10:41 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Thailand's shaky government has suffered a devastating decision by the attorney-general's office, which ruled that the prime minister's party, and the biggest opposition party, "both violated the law" and should be dissolved. More >>
Richard S Ehrlich: Turkey Political
Friday, 23 June 2006, 2:47 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
ISTANBUL, Turkey -- "Ten or 15 years ago, we had Romanian girls in Istanbul selling their bodies as prostitutes," said Hassan, an office worker in Istanbul's old Sultan Ahmet neighborhood. More >>
Richard S. Ehrlich: A Letter From Turkey
Thursday, 1 June 2006, 12:02 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
ISTANBUL, Turkey -- The cylindrical "fez" hat, with its dangling black tassel, provokes feelings of resentment, humiliation and grim memories of repression among many proud, nationalistic Turks. More >>
Thailand's PM Thaksin Shinawatra Resigns
Thursday, 6 April 2006, 7:10 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra resigned on Wednesday (April 5), and appointed a loyal colleague, to end anti-Thaksin street protests before the June arrival of the world's kings, queens and other royalty to honor Thailand's revered ... More >>
Richard Ehrlich: Election Aftermath In Thailand
Monday, 3 April 2006, 11:51 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Despite an opposition boycott of Sunday's (April 2) nationwide poll, Thailand's billionaire prime minister expects to be re-elected but then suffer insults, allegations and condemnation by thousands of protesters determined to cripple ... More >>
Tuol Sleng Survivor Paints Pictures Of His Torture
Wednesday, 29 March 2006, 12:37 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Vann Nath is one of seven survivors of Cambodia's Tuol Sleng torture chambers, and escaped when Pol Pot's "killing fields" regime suddenly collapsed in 1979. More >>
Thaksin Shinawatra Portrayed As Adolf Hitler
Friday, 24 March 2006, 2:01 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Unable to topple Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra after weeks of street protests, opponents are venting their fury by portraying him as Adolf Hitler, sparking a denouncement by Israel's embassy. More >>
Thailand Not A Happy Place For Thaksin Shinawatra
Wednesday, 1 March 2006, 11:00 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Thailand's American-educated prime minister thought he could use capitalist tools and democratic elections to bask in a family sale netting 1.8 billion dollars, tax-free, while crushing demands that he resign. More >>
Bush Recalls The Capture Of Hambali In Thailand
Monday, 13 February 2006, 9:27 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- When CIA and Thai authorities caught Hambali in Thailand in 2003, nothing was said publicly about his involvement in a 9/11-style plot to fly an airplane into a skyscraper in Los Angeles. More >>
Thailand Seeks Aung San Suu Kyi 's Release
Monday, 23 January 2006, 11:00 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Thailand will push Burma "as hard as we can" to free Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest, while also opening a new bridge across a river to link the two Southeast Asian nations. More >>
