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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 >>
Ehrlich: A Sudden Change In Juntas In Burma
Wednesday, 20 October 2004, 12:23 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Anti-American hardliners in Burma's military regime arrested Prime Minister Khin Nyunt, who was also head of Military Intelligence, and locked him under house arrest for alleged corruption, according to conflicting reports from ... More >>
Don Henley Slams Bush & Iraq War In Thailand
Thursday, 14 October 2004, 1:08 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Don Henley, lead singer of the American rock band, ''The Eagles'', said America's war in Iraq ''was not necessary'' and he does not like U.S. President George Bush. More >>
King Norodom Sihanouk's Succession In Cambodia
Wednesday, 13 October 2004, 11:56 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Cambodia's King Norodom Sihanouk, originally crowned in 1941 when Nazi-backed Vichy France controlled Indochina, said he will leave the throne and allow his son, former dancer Prince Norodom Sihamoni, to replace him. More >>
Cambodia's King Norodom Sihanouk To Bow Out
Monday, 11 October 2004, 12:00 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Cambodia's King Norodom Sihanouk, originally crowned in 1941 when Nazi-backed Vichy France controlled his country, said he will abandon his throne, sparking concern over who might replace him. More >>
Ehrlich: Thailand's War On Drugs Begins A Fresh
Wednesday, 6 October 2004, 11:43 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Thailand has declared a fresh war on drugs, vowing to send dealers and smugglers to "hell", and shrugged off complaints by human rights groups that the previous crackdown left 2,500 people dead, mostly in unsolved murders. More >>
Bird Flu Moves To Human Transmission In Thailand
Friday, 1 October 2004, 12:58 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Thailand has declared bird flu as its ''enemy'' after the world's first ''probable'' human-to-human infection killed at least one Thai woman and perhaps infected her relatives. More >>
Laos Govt. Accused Of Atrocities Against Children
Wednesday, 15 September 2004, 12:12 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The military in communist Laos committed ''war crimes'' and ''atrocities against Hmong children'' by raping, killing and mutilating descendents of a tribe formerly used by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in its failed bid ... More >>
Thailand's Women Lead The Nation To Olympic Glory
Tuesday, 31 August 2004, 12:25 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- This Buddhist kingdom achieved surprise enlightenment at the Athens Olympics when five of its daughters defied popular expectations that Thai females should be shy and delicate. More >>
American Bounty Hunter Jonathan ''Jack'' Idema
Wednesday, 18 August 2004, 10:38 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- American bounty hunter Jonathan "Jack" Idema, who was put on trial in Kabul for allegedly torturing Afghans, arrived in Afghanistan alongside U.S. invasion forces in 2001 and enjoyed threatening to kill journalists. More >>
Richard S. Ehrlich: Bangkok And The 9/11 Attacks
Thursday, 29 July 2004, 12:16 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Three Saudi hijackers, who died in the Sept. 11 attack on the Pentagon, escaped CIA surveillance by travelling to an al Qaeda meeting in Bangkok before flying to America, according to the U.S. government's 9/11 Commission Report. More >>
Richard Gere Speaks Out Against War In Thailand
Tuesday, 13 July 2004, 4:35 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- U.S. film star Richard Gere opened an international AIDS Film Festival by condemning America's ''insane war in Iraq'' and refusing a suggestion that he become the next president of the United States. More >>
Thai Drug War Fuels Prison AIDs Epidemic
Monday, 12 July 2004, 1:42 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The government's "war on drugs" in which more than 2,000 people died, also locked thousands of suspects in prisons rife with AIDS, allowing the disease to spiral out of control, according to a United Nations report. More >>
The Sergeant Who Wants To Come In From The Cold
Tuesday, 6 July 2004, 12:20 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- An American sergeant who slipped into North Korea in 1965 may soon emerge from his time-warp existence, if he can dodge a U.S. court martial for allegedly deserting the army and defecting to the communist regime. More >>
