March 2014

ASIA AND RESPONSIBILITY? The handling of the case of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 says a lot about the differences between East and West – but right now as the search goes on in the South Indian Ocean I can’t help but feel that the Malaysians are in a state of thinking ‘What did we do […]

THEN JUST SIT BACK AND COLLECT! First there was GeekUniversity, then came twa.lk and tw.alk2. Now it’s JP Digitel Tech. They are all the brainchild of a young Aussie called Shaun Stenning.   All the projects looked plausible and there were the usual money back offers if customers did not make money within a certain […]

NO MORE BS EXPECTED – BUT AUSSIE’S REMAIN CAUTIOUS. RAAF and RNZAF Orion aircraft were today rushing to a location 2,500 km south west of Perth where items which may be debris connected to flight MH370 have been seen floating in the sea. Also due on location was a United States Air Force Poseidon aircraft. […]

Just to re-assure readers again that money does not grow on trees, here’s an update on the Cambodian jatropha tree fiasco. One man is in jail in Phnom Penh – that’s Greg Fryett from Torquay,  and four others from the Sustainable Growth Company or Sustainable Agro-Energy have been arrested by the Serious Fraud Office in […]

PATTAYA TIMES WAS ‘A TISSUE OF LIES’, Drew Walter Noyes, the former publisher of the Pattaya Times newspaper, and his wife Wanrapa Bonsu, listed as the Editor, were ordered to surrender to bail at Bangkok Criminal Court yesterday on charges of criminal libel and libel against the Computer Crime Act. British journalist Andrew Drummond is […]

The BBC motoring programme ‘Top Gear’ – in reality a boys behaving badly with lots of expensive toys showcase – has come in for a drubbing from the British press for using the term ‘slope’ during the first of two specials filmed in Burma. As a man walks towards them on a wooden bridge of […]

‘OUR CEO WENT TROPPO!’ BUSINESS NEWS: The international iron, steel, and aggregates conglomerate SCP Mining and Metals, is to close down all operations in South East Asia. All assets are to be liquidated but job losses will be kept to a minimum, a company spokesman said today. The UK company, which boasted offices in Piccadilly, […]

‘A POLITICAL FANATIC’ – BUT ALSO ‘FANATICAL ABOUT HIS JOB, HIS FLIGHT  SIMULATOR AND HIS D.I.Y. VIDEOS’ Leaders of the opposition Pakatan Rakyat Party in Malaysia have dismissed a report in the Mail on Sunday that the Captain of Malaysian Airlines MH370 was a ‘political fanatic’ and that this may have something to do with […]

EFFORTS MADE TO AVOID RADAR DETECTION –  PILOT MUST HAVE HAD KNOWLEDGE OF BOEING 777 – BUT WHO AND WHY? Stopping short of using the word hijack Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak announce today that Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 ‘appeared to be intentionally steered off course by at least one person with considerably flying experience.’ […]

BUT INFO STILL COMING FROM ANONYMOUS SOURCES. Bloombergs wire service is today reporting that Malaysian Flight 370 sent its last signal from the Indian Ocean off Australia. The pulses provide no data about the plane’s speed, location or altitude. Still, they allow calculations of an arc along the earth’s surface where the plane was each […]