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Israel Responds To Mahathir Mohamad Remarks
Wednesday, 22 October 2003, 10:33 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The Israeli embassy has demanded "the Muslim world" and others condemn Malaysia's leader for invoking anti-Semitic ideas which enabled Nazis to kill more than six million Jews. More >>
APEC: Bush Cites Danger After Osama Tape
Monday, 20 October 2003, 10:27 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
by Richard S. Ehrlich BANGKOK, Thailand - U.S. President George Bush said on Sunday (Oct. 19) Osama bin Laden's newest tape proves "there is still a danger," and thanked Thailand's military for sending troops to Afghanistan and Iraq. More >>
Thai Terror Concerns Heightened As APEC Approaches
Thursday, 16 October 2003, 11:30 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- U.S. President George Bush and 20 other leaders meet next week in this nervous "Land of Smiles" where Bangkok's pro-U.S. government is trying to mummify anti-American dissent, stop Islamic terrorists destroying airplanes and hotels, ... More >>
Thailand Switches To Lethal Injection Oct 19
Monday, 13 October 2003, 11:04 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
Thailand - This majority Buddhist nation will soon legally kill people by pumping chemicals into their veins instead of shooting them when Bangkok switches later this month to lethal injection, a change condemned by Amnesty International. More >>
420 Thai Troops Dispatched To Iraq
Thursday, 2 October 2003, 9:17 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Anxious to strengthen its military partnership with America and qualify as a "major non-NATO ally," Thailand has dispatched more than 420 troops to Iraq. More >>
Myanmar Times Says Burmese Want U.S. Invasion
Tuesday, 30 September 2003, 8:51 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Many Burmese want U.S. President George W. Bush and the U.N. to invade Burma with warplanes and troops to topple the military regime, said Burma-based Ross Dunkley, a CEO and managing editor of the government-censored Myanmar Times. More >>
Richard S. Ehrlich: Sobhraj Bikini Killer
Wednesday, 24 September 2003, 10:34 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- An alleged serial murderer known as "The Bikini Killer" who preyed on American, French, Australian and other backpackers in Asia, may be protected by a statute of limitations despite being arrested in Kathmandu, Nepal. More >>
Richard S. Ehrlich: Landmine Torture Burmese Style
Friday, 19 September 2003, 12:18 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Burma's military is killing people by forcing them to walk across minefields to reveal where explosives are buried, and Burmese rebels are buying U.S. landmines on the blackmarket, causing death and injury to soldiers and civilians, ... More >>
Burma New Leaders: Intel Chief Becomes PM
Thursday, 28 August 2003, 10:33 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Reeling from bomb blasts, U.S. sanctions and demands to free Aung San Suu Kyi from detention, Burma has suddenly changed its secretive leadership, promoting its crafty intelligence chief to become prime minister. More >>
Tin Mines & Sewage: Why Phuket’s Water Is Foul
Wednesday, 27 August 2003, 8:43 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
PHUKET, Thailand -- Many of Phuket's small lakes and tranquil lagoons began as poisonous pits where greedy tin miners dug the earth, extracted ore and left behind craters filled with rainwater. More >>
Why Strict Indonesian Islamic Society Is Unpopular
Friday, 15 August 2003, 9:20 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Washington has linked al Qaeda to the bomb attacks on Bali and the JW Marriott Hotel, but Muslim extremists' demands for a strict Islamic society are not popular in Indonesia. More >>
Bali Bomber Imam Samudra Welcomed Death Call
Thursday, 14 August 2003, 1:15 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Accused Bali bomber Imam Samudra welcomed prosecution demands for his death claiming it would bring him "near to God," amid an international debate about whether or not executing terrorists makes them martyrs. More >>
Indonesian Prosecutors Seek 15 Years For Bashir
Wednesday, 13 August 2003, 8:31 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Prosecutors demanded on Tuesday (Aug. 12) a 15-year jail sentence for a Muslim extremist leader allegedly linked to al Qaeda, if he is found guilty of involvement in deadly church bombings and an attempted assassination. More >>
Indonesia Severed Head
Sunday, 10 August 2003, 8:52 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- This densely-populated capital has descended into gloomy suspense after police identified a severed head found in the wreckage of the JW Marriott Hotel as that of a suspected Islamic extremist responsible for the car bomb which killed ... More >>
Richard S. Ehrlich: Cambodians Go To The Polls
Monday, 28 July 2003, 9:52 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- In this haunted tropical land of mass graves, political intimidation and languid post-French colonial charm, people who survived Pol Pot's "killing fields" and Prime Minister Hun Sen's tough regime, hope Sunday's (July 27) election won't ... More >>
Freed Journalists Describe Laotian Guerillas
Monday, 14 July 2003, 10:49 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Americans supporting anti-communist Hmong guerrillas in Laos should realize they lost the CIA's support in 1975 and the abandoned stragglers must be rescued because they cannot fight, according to two European journalists who were ... More >>
CIA Poshepny Legacy
Monday, 7 July 2003, 8:53 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
Thailand -- Anthony A. Poshepny, a decorated, former CIA official who collected enemy ears, dropped decapitated human heads from the air onto communists and stuck heads on spikes, was buried Saturday (July 5) in California after waging failed secret ... More >>
Americans In Thailand Warned Of Terror Attacks
Monday, 23 June 2003, 10:51 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The U.S. Embassy has advised Americans in Thailand to conduct anti-terrorist "emergency drills" at home and at work after police arrested three Muslims allegedly plotting to bomb embassies and tourist sites, and captured ... More >>
Radioactive "Dirty Bomb" Sting In Thailand
Wednesday, 18 June 2003, 9:54 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- U.S. investigators said they want to send to America a sample of the illegal radioactive cesium-137 seized from a Thai smuggler in a hotel parking lot, amid fear that it may have been destined to create a "dirty bomb". More >>
An American And Two Europeans Arrested In Laos
Wednesday, 18 June 2003, 9:51 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Two European journalists said they were arrested in Laos with an American pastor after Lao troops killed an ethnic Hmong guerrilla in a jungle ambush, according to a Canadian teacher who met them near the scene. More >>
