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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 >>
Rumsfeld Seeks To Sell Advanced F-16s To Thailand
Wednesday, 8 June 2005, 1:24 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld reportedly tried to sell F-16 warplanes, capable of firing Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAMs), to Thailand two days after he lashed out at China for upgrading its own ... More >>
Osama bin Laden & 9.11 Souvenirs In S.E. Asia
Wednesday, 1 June 2005, 2:24 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The Osama bin Laden cigarette lighter is adorned with his raised, chrome portrait, an embossed "9.11", sketches of the World Trade Center, an approaching airplane, and a big red splotch. More >>
Call For Info On Corrupt U.S. Bomb-Detector Deal
Friday, 20 May 2005, 1:42 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
Thailand wants Washington to confirm no Thai government officials received bribes in an attempt to sell American bomb-detectors to Bangkok's international airport, after the U.S. Department of Justice, and the Securities and Exchange Commission, ... More >>
Triple Bombing In Burma Leads To CIA Intrigue
Wednesday, 18 May 2005, 12:05 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Thailand said it will pursue terrorists described by Burma as CIA-trained, because "maybe someone did something along the border," resulting in a synchronized triple-bombing in Burma which killed 19 people. More >>
US Co. Involved In Thai Security Bribery Case
Friday, 29 April 2005, 1:13 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission into "foreign corrupt practices" by an American company selling airport bomb-detectors, and the alleged involvement of Thai officials, have created ... More >>
Suffocation Inquiry - Senior Thai Officers Guilty
Wednesday, 27 April 2005, 2:08 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Senior military officers were "guilty of dereliction of duty," causing 78 Muslims to suffocate to death in army trucks and used "excessive force" to kill 31 armed rebels in a mosque, a government commission said. More >>
Nepal's Seeks US Help To Squash Maoist Rebellion
Tuesday, 29 March 2005, 10:39 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Nepal needs U.S. weapons and technology to battle Maoist guerrillas, and expects Washington to continue supplying military aid despite a political takeover by Kathmandu's king, according to a top Nepalese official. More >>
