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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 >>
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 >>
