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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 >>
Thailand's PM Wary Of Assasination
Monday, 9 June 2003, 11:20 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Drug gangs and "dark influences" may be plotting to assassinate Thailand's prime minister while he prepares to visit Washington, but he insists the risk won't stop his war on crime in which more than 2,200 people mysteriously perished. More >>
Deaths Blamed On Aung San Suu Kyi's Party Members
Friday, 6 June 2003, 3:33 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Aung San Suu Kyi's foul-mouthed, rock-throwing party members may have set fire to a car, killing four people who were trapped inside when the flaming vehicle crashed, according to Burma's explanation for locking her up. More >>
Burma Sanctions Effort Blunted By China, India
Friday, 6 June 2003, 11:52 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Burma has boasted its two "very good neighbors," China and India, will blunt U.S.-led sanctions amid attempts in Washington for tightening boycotts to support detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. More >>
Analysis: Aung San Suu Kyi's Re-Arrest
Tuesday, 3 June 2003, 3:47 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Burma's surprise detention of Aung San Suu Kyi comes amid scattered bombings, a crippling international boycott and demands by Washington for an end to the military dictatorship which blocks her from power. More >>
Burma’s Former Dictator General Ne Win Dies
Friday, 6 December 2002, 10:10 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The death of Burma's elderly former dictator, General Ne Win, ended the life of a bizarre, brutal leader who used superstition, military repression and a mummified economy to turn a prosperous Southeast Asian nation into a pauper ... More >>
Gore Pinched My Photos - Veteran Vietnam Cameraman
Tuesday, 12 December 2000, 10:19 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- Famed "killing fields" combat photographer Al Rockoff says Al Gore lied and snatched his photos in 1971 during their military service in Vietnam, but revenge was achieved by Rockoff's Florida vote for George W. Bush. More >>
Aung San Suu Kyi Fights To Keep Her House
Thursday, 30 November 2000, 9:34 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Burma's Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi is trapped under virtual house arrest, but she is fighting to keep her stately lakeside home from being seized by her estranged US-based brother. More >>
