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Tsunami Scavengers Survivors Nuns And Corps
Tuesday, 11 January 2005, 10:04 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
KHAO LAK BEACH, Thailand -- Scavengers, survivors, nuns and corporate logos have appeared along this mangled, death-pocked coast where vehicles jut from wet sand and bonfires consume five-star trash. More >>
Tsunami Report: Tourists Return To Stench & Sand
Monday, 10 January 2005, 11:46 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
PHUKET, Thailand -- Americans are tossing a Frisbee, Germans are eyeing the lapping sea, and an Italian is thinking of Pompeii here on Patong Beach where tsunamis killed so many and destroyed so much, leaving a stench which now wafts on a tropical breeze. More >>
Tsunami Report: Cyberspace Blogs & Gruesome Photos
Monday, 10 January 2005, 11:40 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
PHUKET, Thailand -- Internet Websites, blogs, chat groups and databases are flooded with tsunami scams, gruesome morgue photos, official warnings, donation requests, Islamic propaganda against Thailand, and ridiculous jokes, causing confusion and ... More >>
Tsunami Report: Need For Thai Orphanages Urgent
Friday, 7 January 2005, 10:07 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
PHUKET, Thailand -- There is "a real need for orphanages" for Thai children who survived the tsunami, according to an executive director of an American-founded Christian group who helped set up churches in the stricken zone. More >>
Tsunami: Interviews With A Dead Worker
Wednesday, 5 January 2005, 11:31 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
PHUKET, Thailand -- A Canadian who helped carry and separate about 500 corpses into "Asian" and "foreign" piles at a Buddhist temple, said bodies were covered in dry ice until forensic teams could decide who could be cremated in ... More >>
U.S. Families Paying Investigators To Find Bodies
Tuesday, 4 January 2005, 12:09 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
PHUKET, Thailand -- The family of an American real estate agent who vanished in the tsunamis, hired U.S. investigators to find him dead or alive, but after seven days of searching, no trace emerged of the missing Illinois man, a security expert said. More >>
Tsunami: Thousands Of Cremations A Grim Task
Monday, 3 January 2005, 10:49 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
PHUKET, Thailand -- Cremating thousands of tsunami victims at Buddhist temples has become a grim task, but Thailand's monks are trained by "corpse meditation" and staring at photos of decomposing bodies to deal with the transitory nature of ... More >>
Tsunami: The Missing In Phuket
Monday, 3 January 2005, 10:46 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
PHUKET, Thailand -- Similar to the bleak aftermath of September 11 in New York, a slew of private photographs, international names, personal details and agonized pleas for help appear on walls, amid hopes of finding people missing or dead from ... More >>
U.S. Trio Wait For The Big One On The Beach
Saturday, 1 January 2005, 1:23 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
PHUKET, Thailand -- Three Americans remained on a beach enjoying the ''beauty,'' ''energy'' and ''mass of white'' of an approaching tsunami, and marveled in awe when it suddenly sucked all the water from the bay. More >>
Tsunami Eyewitness - 72-yr-old Swept Out To Sea
Saturday, 1 January 2005, 12:47 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- A 72-year-old American who felt an earthquake but shrugged off breakfast conversation about a tsunami, was slammed two hours later by a ''line of cumulous clouds'' of water at Golden Buddha Beach Resort and carried out to sea. More >>
Richard S. Ehrlich: Thailand's Earthquake Survivor
Thursday, 30 December 2004, 11:21 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Foreign tourists rescued from a tiny island off the coast of Phuket said they thought a terrorist was shooting people, a dam had burst or a hurricane hit moments before they saw huge waves sweep helpless victims into the Andaman Sea. More >>
Thailand's Tsunami Death-Toll Rising
Wednesday, 29 December 2004, 10:30 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand Bloated corpses floated off the coast and littered Thailand¹s beaches on Tuesday (Dec. 28) where the government said more than 1,500 people, many of them foreign tourists, drowned and 1,000 disappeared after Asia¹s underwater earthquake ... More >>
Richard Ehrlich: Sex Change Operations In Thailand
Wednesday, 15 December 2004, 12:38 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- After a former U.S. Army corporal became a grandfather, he stopped secretly wearing women's clothes, flew to Bangkok for a sex change operation and emerged as a lesbian. More >>
Thailand Air Drops100 Million Birds Of Peace
Monday, 6 December 2004, 12:36 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Thailand will air drop more than 100 million paper "birds of peace" onto the Muslim-majority south on Sunday (Dec. 5) despite complaints it will create tons of garbage and not lessen anger against the army which suffocated 78 ... More >>
Thailand Recieves Anti-Terror Training From US DoD
Friday, 19 November 2004, 10:03 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The U.S. Defense Department has trained and equipped police on the tourist playground island of Phuket to prevent "international terrorists" staging a copycat of the Bali island bombing, a Thai official said. More >>
Despotism Led To PM's Arrest Says Burmese Regime
Tuesday, 9 November 2004, 12:50 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Human enslavement, crimes involving jade and pearls, plus bribery and military insubordination along the Burma-China border led to the arrest of Burma's prime minister along with other despots, the Burmese regime said. More >>
Insurgents Threaten To Burn Bangkok In Revenge
Saturday, 30 October 2004, 5:44 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Suicide Muslim insurgents threatened to use ''fire and oil'' to ''burn down'' Bangkok in revenge for the deaths of 85 people, including 78 Muslim men who suffocated after Thai security forces crammed them into army trucks, laying ... More >>
Mass Suffocations In South Thailand Security Op.
Wednesday, 27 October 2004, 9:26 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- At least 84 people died, mostly from suffocation so severe their eyes bled, after being arrested and locked inside army trucks in Thailand's Muslim-majority south during clashes with security forces, officials said. More >>
Thailand Tiger Bird Flu Death Toll Climbs To 59
Friday, 22 October 2004, 12:46 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
A zoo fed its tigers the raw carcasses of chickens possibly infected with bird flu resulting in 59 tiger deaths, including 29 which perished from influenza and 30 more sick beasts later killed to stop the disease, according to the U.N.'s World Health ... More >>
29 Tigers Possibly Killed By Bird Flu In Thailand
Thursday, 21 October 2004, 11:33 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
At least 29 caged tigers died from influenza in less than a week at a zoo near Bangkok, possibly from being fed the diseased, raw carcasses of chickens infected with bird flu, according to the U.N.'s World Health Organization (WHO). More >>
