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Richard Ehrlich: Indonesia's Presidential Election
Saturday, 3 July 2004, 7:57 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- President Megawati Sukarnoputri's perplexing rule has been punctuated by terrorists' bombs in Bali and Jakarta, while her nicknames as ''The Queen of Silence'' and ''The Sphinx'' have not kept her from condemning the U.S. ... More >>
US Black Hawks Asist Thai War On Drugs/Militants
Wednesday, 30 June 2004, 9:50 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Washington has delivered 30 helicopters to Bangkok to help it crush Muslim militants in the south and guard against illegal drug trafficking in the north. More >>
Burma Rewrites Its Constitution In A Unique Manner
Thursday, 20 May 2004, 12:01 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Burma's military regime has told delegates creating the country's new constitution they must bathe correctly, avoid junk food and live in a self-contained camp where they can enjoy karaoke, movies and golf. More >>
Thai Muslim Guerillas Warn Tourists To Stay Away
Monday, 3 May 2004, 12:20 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
Muslim guerrillas have told the "people of the world" not to visit southern Thailand, where Thai troops killed more than 100 Islamic militants and bloodied a mosque in Pattani, but the stark warning also included Phuket island, a wealthy, tourist playground ... More >>
Thai Mosque Attack Leads To Political Bickering
Friday, 30 April 2004, 11:36 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Military officers, politicians, Muslim leaders and others bickered on Thursday (April 29) about the army's killing of 107 armed Islamic militants, and destructive assault on a mosque, during Thailand's bloodiest clashes in modern times. More >>
Thai Security Forces Attack Mosque, Kill Militants
Thursday, 29 April 2004, 8:34 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Backed by armored personnel carriers and helicopters, security forces attacked a mosque on Wednesday (April 28) killing Islamic "militants" at the site, during scattered clashes and ambushes which left more than 100 suspects ... More >>
Thai Insurgents Steal Ingredient For Huge Bomb
Friday, 2 April 2004, 11:20 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The day before British police seized a half-ton of ammonium nitrate in England, "insurgents" in Thailand's Muslim-majority, violent south successfully stole three times that amount, enough for a bomb similar to the explosives which ... More >>
Richard Ehrlich: The Pimp Who Would Be Governor
Friday, 19 March 2004, 11:22 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
Thailand's biggest and most notorious massage parlor tycoon said he employed 20,000 women during the past decade and compiled a blacklist naming police who allegedly accepted his pay-offs. More >>
Tom Ridge Talks Homeland Security In Thailand
Monday, 15 March 2004, 2:35 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- U.S. Homeland Security secretary Tom Ridge said Friday (March 12) he "would not" keep his job if John Kerry becomes president, but the Department of Homeland Security would be a permanent apparatus to crush terrorism no matter ... More >>
Thai Nightlife Granted Cinderella Decree Reprieve
Friday, 5 March 2004, 1:56 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Thailand's bars, nightclubs, massage parlors and other adult entertainment places are thanking their lucky neon stars for permission to remain open past midnight. More >>
Dame Anita Roddick – Bush Is A War Criminal
Thursday, 4 March 2004, 12:38 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- President George W. Bush is a war criminal, businesses are "more powerful than religion" and Wal-Mart is evil, according to The Body Shop's founder, Dame Anita Roddick. More >>
Ehrlich: Half Truths Led To Thai Bird Flu Deaths
Thursday, 5 February 2004, 12:41 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Bird flu killed people because Thais told "half-truths" similar to the way a black American con-artist deceived wealthy white society by pretending to be the son of Oscar-winning Sidney Poitier, according to the government's ... More >>
Nightmare Bird Flu Scenario Comes True In Vietnam
Tuesday, 3 February 2004, 10:39 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The first nightmare scenario cases of human-to-human infection of fatal bird flu may have killed two sisters in Vietnam, but the odds are still against an epidemic among people, according to the U.N.'s World Health Organization ... More >>
Humans Working On Chicken Cull At High Risk - FAO
Wednesday, 28 January 2004, 11:38 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Humans are in "extremely high" risk of additional deaths by bird flu in Thailand and elsewhere in Asia because many do not wear protective clothing while collecting and burying millions of diseased chickens, according to the U.N.'s ... More >>
Religious Conflict & Sensitivities In Thailand
Monday, 26 January 2004, 10:48 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
The government warned against a Muslim-Buddhist "religious conflict" after assassins killed two Buddhist monks and a novice in southern Thailand, while the army cancelled sending Israeli-trained Thai troops to Iraq because they might anger Iraqis. More >>
Richard Ehrlich: Thailand Denies Bird Flu Cover-up
Monday, 26 January 2004, 10:48 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
Wobbling after widespread condemnation of dangerously unethical behavior, the Thai government denied on Saturday (Jan. 24) it covered up the spread of bird flu, suspected of killing at least one person in Thailand and five others in Vietnam. More >>
Laos Rebels Draw Eye Of USA
Thursday, 8 January 2004, 10:34 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The U.S. State Department has warned of increased security concerns in tiny communist Laos because of deadly, politically motivated assaults against markets and buses and "more attacks could occur" endangering Americans. More >>
Thailand Rocked By Bombing Spree
Wednesday, 7 January 2004, 12:10 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Despite a massive security crackdown, explosions killed at least three police on Monday (Jan. 5), one day after attackers killed four soldiers, set fire to schools and police checkposts and stole weapons in the Muslim-majority ... More >>
Vietnam Buys Russian Warplanes For USD$100million
Monday, 29 December 2003, 11:45 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Vietnam reportedly signed a 100 million U.S. dollar deal to buy four sophisticated Sukhoi warplanes from Russia, its former Cold War ally, after Moscow sold similar Sukhoi fighter-bombers to Indonesia, Malaysia and China. More >>
Amnesty Barred From Seeing Aung San Suu Kyi
Wednesday, 24 December 2003, 11:04 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Burma's military regime blocked Amnesty International from meeting Aung San Suu Kyi, the world's most famous political prisoner, during an investigation into "the grave deterioration" of human rights throughout the country, the London-based ... More >>
