2013

BREAKING THE BOUNDS OF BAD TASTE The local obsession in Thailand with becoming as white as white can, which has now topped breast implants and flat nose eradication,  has been recently featuring a particularly tasteless advert which is causing a bit of a stir not least because of its racist connotations. Its been kicking around […]

“IT WOULD HAVE BEEN IMPOSSIBLE TO CARRY ON” – SAYS FORMER FOUNDER OF PATTAYA EXPATS CLUB CAMPAIGNING ON AN ANTI-IMMIGRATION TICKET. The Vice Chairman of a branch of the right wing United Kingdom Independence Party said today that he had no choice but to flee the British local council elections because of his ‘dragon’ Thai […]

                            –  ‘WE WERE REVOLTED!’ – SAID PATTAYA ‘BARRISTER’ WHO WAS ‘PAID US$300,000’ – TO ‘SPRING’ ALLEGED CHILD SEX ABUSER -The British head of a legal company has admitted paying cash to young children who were the alleged ‘victims’  of one of […]

BUT BRITISH MUMS OF LADS KILLED IN BUS CRASHES IN THAILAND WILL NOT GO AWAY. -TAKE THE PLANE – THEY SAY (Pic Felix Cooper Robinson) Two years after a British Coroner sent a ‘Rule 43’ letter to authorities in Thailand making road safety suggestion in relation to bus travel – not even one acknowledgment has […]

SMART NEW BLUE ISLAND HOPPER FOR SALE? Well as I have been following the Harlequin saga, particularly with regards to the projects it initiated in Pattaya – later taken over by Briton Richard Haughton, former President of the Pattaya-Jomtien Rotary Club – I should at least record here that Harlequin Property & Hotels has now […]

A Flying Sporran Enquiry ‘THIS IS THE LIFE!’ SAYS CONVICTED FRAUDSTER AS HE LAPS UP THAILAND’S WELCOME -BUT PRISONER E0000274 HAS TO FACE COURT FOR ALLEGEDLY TAKING US$300,000.00 FROM A 75-YEAR-OLD GRANNY Convicted Scottish conman Brian Goudie has joined the high life on Koh Samui, Thailand, after fleeing the eastern seaboard city of Pattaya and […]

(updated 29/04) AN AMERICAN HAS BEEN TAKEN TO HAVE HIS SOUL CLEANSED – AND HIS FRIENDS ARE WORRIED WITLESS! It’s the ultimate nightmare in Thailand just one below annoying the local mafia. An American has gone missing from his home in Jomtien, Chonburi – and a security guard has reported that the he saw the […]

And six so far this year. Ou Virak – the President of the Cambodian Centre for Human rights describes today as a ‘period of closer Thai Cambodian’relations’.  That’s hard to believe from the jingoistic and nationalistic stances taken by both Thailand and Cambodia over the Preah Vihear temple dispute. And even harder to believe when […]

(Thanks to a wire service report) MUM’S THE WORD AND THE PROBLEM WILL GO AWAY- (Pic: No batteries! So if this man’s not fit- its f**ked’  Former P.M . – Abhisit) It’s happened again. And it will happen again. Thailand was sold a pup and it now has egg on its face but nobody is […]

CORONERS IN UK TOLD FOREIGN OFFICE OFFICIALS THEY MUST GIVE STRONGER WARNINGS TO TOURISTS- A British mother who lost her 19-year-old son in one of Thailand’s numerous coach crashes is flying out to ensure justice for her child who was due to study economic at Manchester University. Rachel Cooper, from Brighton, East Sussex, will attend […]