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Thailand Seeks Aung San Suu Kyi Release
Saturday, 21 January 2006, 11:56 pm | 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 >>
Richard S. Ehrlich: Letter from Jinghong
Thursday, 15 December 2005, 11:35 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
JINGHONG, China -- Punk fashions, shopping malls and Mandarin-language rap are helping China create a sanitized, communist-controlled, parallel universe which mimics the outside world. More >>
Euthanasia Promoter Faces Imprisonment In Cambodia
Tuesday, 8 November 2005, 12:34 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- An American facing possible expulsion or imprisonment for creating a Web site luring suicidal people to die in Cambodia, said he made no money from his morbid venture and did it after failing to convince a California town to legalize ... More >>
Nixon US Def. Sec. Blasts Cowboy Approach To Iraq
Friday, 4 November 2005, 11:37 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- America attacked Vietnam and Iraq "based on intelligence failures and possibly outright deception," according to former U.S. Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird, who blasted President Bush's "west Texas cowboy approach." More >>
Comfort Woman Continues Quest For Compensation
Thursday, 3 November 2005, 11:31 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- A kamikaze suicide pilot fell in love with imprisoned "comfort woman" Lee Yong Soo, but that did nothing to stop the atrocity of her being raped by hundreds of Japanese soldiers during World War II. More >>
Burma’s Military Regime Labels Bush A Murderer
Friday, 28 October 2005, 9:28 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- America's war on terrorism is an excuse allowing the "bloodthirsty murderer" to invade Afghanistan and Iraq, kill innocent people, and strip survivors of their human rights, according to Burma's military regime. Burma's newest tirade ... More >>
Thai PM Tells Islamic Conf. Official To Read Koran
Friday, 21 October 2005, 10:46 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Thailand's Buddhist prime minister angrily told the Saudi Arabian-based Organization of Islamic Conference to "read the Koran" before criticizing his military crackdown in the south, where more than 1,000 people have died in the ... More >>
Polanski Not Worried About Thai Extradition Law
Monday, 17 October 2005, 11:03 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Roman Polanski, who recently dodged possible extradition from England to America where he was convicted for illicit sex with a 13-year-old California girl, said he has "no problems" being arrested as a fugitive while traveling to other ... More >>
Burma Rejects Tutu & Havel Remarks On Regime
Monday, 3 October 2005, 1:01 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Burma has condemned former Czech president Vaclav Havel and South Africa's retired archbishop Desmond Tutu for demanding UN intervention into "absurd" allegations of forced labor, torture, opium production, child soldiers and ... More >>
Military Murders Sparks New Thai Security Crisis
Friday, 23 September 2005, 10:52 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Suspected Muslim insurgents avoided capture Thursday (Sept. 22) after torturing to death two marines by beating and stabbing their bound-and-gagged victims behind a human shield of defiant Muslim women and children, horrifying the ... More >>
Tsunami Aftermath Contains Lessons For New Orleans
Wednesday, 7 September 2005, 3:17 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Katrina's victims may learn lessons from Thailand's tsunami where DNA and real estate profits have become priorities, and thousands of survivors still cannot cope eight months after rescue. More >>
Massage Tycoon-Turned-Politician Refused US Visa
Tuesday, 23 August 2005, 12:07 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Thailand's massage parlor tycoon-turned-politician said the American Embassy rejected his visa application, barring him from joining a Thai government trip to visit FBI, DEA and other U.S. officials. More >>
Passport Smuggler
Wednesday, 10 August 2005, 6:04 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Security forces said they arrested an Algerian-born British man who was about to fly to Europe with 452 French, Spanish, Belgian and Portuguese passports, and were investigating any possible links with terrorists. More >>
Aung San Suu Kyi Victory Over The Burmese Junta
Thursday, 28 July 2005, 1:33 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Muted in her gloomy, lakeside mansion in Burma by a decade of depressing house arrest, the world's most famous political prisoner, Aung San Suu Kyi, scored a psychological victory when she helped force the Association of ... More >>
Baby Roasting Monk Caught Tricking Women Into Sex
Wednesday, 20 July 2005, 2:32 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- A defrocked Buddhist novice who roasted a baby to create a powerful ghost has been arrested for allegedly tricking women into giving him cash and sex during useless animist rituals, according to police and anti-corruption officials. More >>
Iranian Ambassador Accuses Bush Of Interference
Monday, 18 July 2005, 3:59 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- U.S. President George Bush is "interfering" in Iran by demanding the release of Iranian journalist Akbar Ganji from prison, Iran's ambassador said in an interview. More >>
Thai Officials Order Hmong Refugees Abandoned
Friday, 8 July 2005, 2:29 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- About 6,500 ethnic Hmong, who illegally crossed the Mekong River into Thailand, suffered the death of a baby girl after Thai officials reportedly ordered people not to feed or help them. More >>
Thai Beheadings Copycat Iraqi Slayings - Minister
Wednesday, 6 July 2005, 12:46 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Eight gruesome beheadings in Thailand's south, where Muslim separatists are escalating their fight, were "copied from the violence in Iraq," according to Thailand's interior minister. More >>
Richard Ehrlich: Aung San Suu Kyi's 60th Birthday
Monday, 20 June 2005, 10:59 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The world's most famous political prisoner, Burma's Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, will not be celebrating a happy birthday on Sunday (June 19) when she turns 60, because she is locked under house arrest. More >>
US Veteran Deported From Laos For Assisting Rebels
Monday, 13 June 2005, 12:37 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- An American, Ed Szendrey, said a former CIA-backed Lao general helped finance his trip into communist Laos, which ended in expulsion last week because Szendrey bought illegal satellite telephones for Hmong rebels, set up a "communications ... More >>
