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Burma Boasts At UN Of Big Northern Friends
Wednesday, 20 September 2006, 12:38 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Dragged by the U.S. into the United Nations Security Council for critical examination, Burma responded on Tuesday (September 19) by boasting that China, Russia and other "friendly nations" will protect Burma's military ... More >>
Thai Counter-Insurgency Officials Coup Plotters?
Saturday, 9 September 2006, 9:16 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- After surviving an alleged car bomb assassination plot, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra now faces about 10 military counter-insurgency officials charged with attempting to murder him, including a sergeant who confessed to planning ... More >>
22 Simultaneous Bank Bombs Explode In Thailand
Friday, 1 September 2006, 11:41 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- In a bloody, stunning display of discipline, suspected Muslim insurgents exploded 22 time-bombs in 22 banks on Thursday (August 31) killing one person, a week after an apparently unrelated car bomb "assassination plot" against ... More >>
Thai PM Says Assassination Attempt Part Of A Coup
Monday, 28 August 2006, 11:40 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- After surviving what he described as an assassination attempt, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said Friday (August 25) a car bomb, packed with explosives near his house, was a plot by military officers to stage a coup. More >>
American Embassy In Burma Attracts Junta's Ire
Friday, 25 August 2006, 10:29 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The military regime in Burma has targeted the American Embassy in Rangoon, and one of the embassy's female Burmese staffers, because U.S. and British diplomats met opposition politicians whose leader is the world's most famous political ... More >>
Assassination Attempt On Thai PM Shinawatra
Friday, 25 August 2006, 10:15 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- An assassination attempt against Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra almost succeeded on Thursday (August 24), but he "left an hour earlier than usual" from home, while police seized a potential car bomb and an army officer who drove ... More >>
Ehrlich: John Mark Karr's Last Night In Bangkok
Tuesday, 22 August 2006, 11:00 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Accused murderer John Mark Karr's last hours in Bangkok on Sunday (August 20) were spent dressing up and discussing Chopin and classical music, while listening to his Thai jailer serenade him with a personal, impromptu version ... More >>
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 >>
