2013
BEAUTY CLINIC OWNER FEARED FOR HIS LIFE -PATTAYA EXTORTION TRIAL FULL COVERAGE
“YOU HAVE TO PAY 7 MILLION BAHT PROTECTION” – CLAIMED PUBLISHER OF PATTAYA TIMES “BUT MY WIFE – THE EDITOR – MAY BE ABLE TO LOWER THE BRIBE AND SOFTEN THEM UP” Goulet, left, fingers Noyes and Boonsu , who boasted high police contacts The Australian director of a beauty and health clinic in Thailand […]
AMERICA’S BIGGEST COMEDY SHOW ATTACKS THAILAND
I GO TO THAILAND WITH A PACKET OF SMALL SIZED CONDOMS FOR BUSINESS American’s most famous comedy show ‘Saturday Night Live’ has come up with yet another sketch which has enraged Thais here. On the heels of British television which sent up Thailand’s sex trade with the character ‘Ting Tong Macadangdang’ in ‘Little Britain’ US […]
AND YOU HAVE JUST GOT TO HAVE THESE PILLS
HAVE I BEEN KIPPERED AGAIN? (pic ANNIE tripped in classroom) Well I guess we have all had it at one time or other – those Thai hospital bills when you go in for a minor ailment in Thailand and are sent packing with piles of pills and a big bill. It’s happened to me many […]
Father Arrested As Son Announces A Crackdown On Crime
Flying Sporran’s Mid-Week Diary UNESCO TO PROBE FAKE AWARDS IN THAILAND Picture-Thailand Professionals I took time off this week to attend a conference in Pattaya about combatting foreign crime. Mayor Ittiphol Khonpluem put up a very good show appearing genuinely interested in combatting crimes against foreigners (and presumably by foreigners too). There was an impressive […]
LIBEL AND EXTORTION AND ORAL SEX AT PATTAYA NIGHT COURT
-“I’m NOT Going To Jail – Unless I Am Ordered” – (Pic-Drew Noyes and Wanrapa Boonsu) Drew Noyes – the controversial American behind the Pattaya Times, boss of Pappa (Law) Company, and a self confessed expert on Thai libel law, told a night court in Pattaya that he would not go to jail on a […]
‘Evil Man from Krabi’ Trial To Start Next Week – But new video shock
-NO LET UP ON PUBLICITY AS PROVOCATIVE NEW VIDEO HITS YOUTUBE- The trial of Chumpon Khoanuang the tourist sector worker who allegedly beat and raped a Dutch model in Krabi last year is due to start in Krabi provincial Court on February 4th. But there has been no let up from Holland on the publicity […]
A Kachin’s Last Stand
-While Burma is chasing the $ – Let’s not forget it is also still chasing its ethnic minorities. -Flying Sporran Weekend Diary- -While Myanmar is coming out of its shell there is very little sign of a let up in its army’s war with its ethnic minorities – the biggest of which are the Karen, […]
Myanmar Ignored UN Joint Action Plan On Child Soliders
THE TATMADAW PUBLICLY RELEASED CHILD SOLDIERS – THEN RECRUITED MORE – CLAIM Despite moves towards political reform, children continue to be recruited and used as soldiers by armed forces and armed groups in Myanmar, a report published by Child Soldiers International said today. ‘Chance for Change – Ending the recruitment and use of child […]
FLYING SPORRAN ON THE RUN – JOINS TARTAN PIMPERNEL IN HIDING – report
– -A Pattaya Times Exclusive – The paper where news runs all down your leg (I’ve got Drummond on the run says Drew Noyes) Thailand’s seemingly greatest English language newspaper the Pattaya Times which boasts a readership of 500,000 reading a print run of 5000 has broken with the news that Andrew Drummond, correspondent of […]
Please help find missing Brit in Thailand
-HAS TOM ARMSTRONG GONE AWOL OR IS THERE SOMETHING MORE SINISTER – MAYBE YOU CAN HELP. This story has had a mention on the internet before but a family in England are worried sick about what could have happened to 22-year-old Tom Armstrong a young Briton who has gone missing here. Now Suffolk Police have […]