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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 >>
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 >>
