August 2014
HOW TO HIDE PROPERTY IN THAILAND WITHOUT REALLY TRYING
The Anti-Money Laundering Office has come out with a statement saying that big banks are facilitating fraud. Well no news there. That is what they have been doing for years – after all if someone sends you a few million why ask too many questions? That has been the attitude. HSBC did not seem to […]
25 YEAR LEASES – OPTICIANS DID NOT SEE IT COMING
BUM DEALS, COSTA BRITS, AND A MOUNTAIN HIDEAWAY Flying Sporran’s Koh Samui Diary Ten German speaking opticians, who thought they had bought properties and renewable 20 and 25 year leases in Coconut Village on Koh Samui appear to have been turfed out – as they did not own the properties and the leases were not […]
GOING BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
THAI COURT REJECTS SCOTS’ ‘RIGHT TO BE FORGOTTEN’ PLEA Legal eagles. An application by two Scotsman to force Google to remove material about them on the internet has been rejected by the Bangkok Criminal Court in Thailand. The legal submission made by Brian Goudie, 47, from Falkirk and David Hanks, from Girvan, Ayrshire, demanding the […]
EXCLUSIVE: FAKE FOREIGN LAWYERS TRY TO CASH IN ON SHINAWATRA’S FROZEN BILLIONS
BUT THEY BLEW IT ALL IN A PATTAYA ‘SHORT-TIME’ BAR A STORY OF LOW LIFE SCAMMERS IN SLEAZY BARS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA’S TWILIGHT WORLD Thaksin in exile in Weybridge, Surrey, before he had to move on to Dubai Two Scots and one American posing as lawyers in Thailand have been uncovered attempting a scam […]
AUSSIE SCANDAL HIT FUND MANAGER BREAKS HIS SILENCE TO THREATEN ‘FAT ENGLISHMAN’
THE CHARMED LIFE OF AUSSIE FUND MANAGERS News today for the South East Asian victims of the great LM financial fund Ponzi scam. This scam has ruined many people in Thailand who put their life savings, or had their Financial Advisers put their life savings into this fund believing it was as safe as an […]
Military rulers. An Ivy League University, A Race to Govern, And Rich Kids Stuck On a Thai Holiday Island.
NO-ONE’S OWNING UP SO THIS POSH SCHOOL DRAMA IS HEADING FOR A DRAMATIC DENOUEMENT! Rayond Chang (Junior) Cornell bound It appears to be a nightmare. Two international students need to get to their top Universities in the United States quickly for the beginning of the new semester – and the father of one needs to […]
ZIP ME UP BEFORE I GO-GO
Posteriors getting larger? While reluctant to be categorized as a website for go-go bar crawlers, here follows a short report on a police raid on the ‘Windmill’ club in Pattaya’s Walking Street last night. The club describes itself as the naughtiest go go bar in Pattaya and on its website has a testimonial for being […]
BRITISH JOURNALIST TO RETURN CHARGES OF CONTEMPT OF COURT AGAINST ‘FAKE FOREIGN LAWYERS’
CORRESPONDENT FIGHTS BACK AGAINST PERJURY AND CONTEMPT ON THAI LAW DAY British journalist Andrew Drummond said today he would be returning accusations of contempt of court against a gang of three in Thailand after discovering that a photograph had been taken of him inside a court room in Bangkok – after all three had denied […]
INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS PUT SQUEEZE ON THAILAND’S PINEAPPLE INDUSTRY
THAI PINEAPPLE INDUSTRY URGED TO TELL NATURAL FRUIT TO ‘BACK OFF’ Some 98 international organisations have warned Thailand’s Pineapple Industry Association that if they do not disassociate themselves from Natural Fruit which is suing British human rights activists Andy Hall for libel, that they may too face an international boycott. The organisations which include labour […]
SCOTS SUING GOOGLE FOR ‘RIGHT TO BE FORGOTTEN’ FAIL TO CLOSE DOWN WEBSITE
Graphic by mashable.com Two Scots who attempted to get this website closed down or either have all stories and pictures about them removed failed in their bid at Koh Samui Provincial Court. Brian Goudie and David Hanks last month lodged a case at Bangkok Criminal court against the founders of Google and the entire board […]