2014

WITHDRAW HIS BAIL ASK PLAINTIFFS A convicted Scots fraudster who re-invented himself in Thailand as a British barrister today faced new charges in a Thai court after he failed to agree to pay back the equivalent of some £142,000 he had allegedly swindled from a 76-year-old American woman. Brian Goudie, 47, from Falkirk, was further […]

SO CALLED ‘TRUE-BRIT’ WAS MOTIVATED BY GREED Bar manager Kim Fletcher – the Chiang Mai Brit (pixelated) and Bill Haines ‘Foreign Secretary’  at Jameson’s Pattaya A former British bar owner in Chiang Mai is today named as one of the ‘bankers’ for a range of  ‘boiler rooms’ in Thailand known as the ‘Wolves of Bangkok’. The […]

‘A MISTAKE SURELY’- SAYS TWIN OF MAN ACCUSED OF FRAUD AND MOONLIGHTING! An Australian listed by MBMG, reputedly Thailand’s most respectable financial advice and investment company for foreigners, as its representative financial adviser to the Securities Exchange Commission of Thailand, said today: ‘ There appears to be a mistake’. MBMG rushed to list itself earlier […]

THAILAND MILITARY’S TRUTH DILEMMA Lawyers Rights Watch of Canada are the latest organisation to back British Human and Migrant Workers’ Rights advocate Andy Hall. They have written to both the British Ambassador Mark Kent and Britain’s Foreign Secretary the Rt Hon William Hague. While the LRWC is critical of the British authorities for not doing […]

WOLVES OF BANGKOK AND PATTAYA TAKE A TEMPORARY HIKE A second horde of migrant labourers was reported today to have fled to the Cambodian border after allegations were made last week that foreign crime syndicates had taken over a large portion of Thailand’s tourist sex trade. Although the figures have not reached the high figures […]

HOW MANY MORE TO JOIN? The financial services agency PFM International of Chiang Mai Expats Club former president Alan Hall has joined the De Vere Group, and deVere And Partners (Thailand) and others somewhat belatedly on a Thai Securities Exchange Commission investors warning list. Hall has of course, as we reported, now fled to the […]

 IS ‘KING OF SELFIES’ GOING DOWN MEMORY LANE? American Drew Noyes, currently on trial for extortion in Pattaya, has revealed today that he has bagged another Prime Minister in his ‘selfie’ search for people of influence to enhance his own reputation and influence in Thailand. On his Google + page he is now proudly showing […]

BUT MAYBE NEXT TIME ONE OF THE EUROPEAN WALLAHS MIGHT HELP** Flying Sporran’s Weekend Diary Well here we all are and according to a Suan Dusit Poll 8.82 out of every ten of Thais seem quite happy with the actions of the country’s military government.  The Europeans, Brits, and Americans are of course not happy […]

A disturbing story today in the Daily Record in Scotland about a man called William Crook from Glasgow who has a mental age of 12 – who came to Thailand with £4000 for Christmas and New Year – and wanted to come back home but cannot as he has lost his ticket and cash. Actually […]

ITS THE CAMBODIAN LABOUR CRISIS! ITS THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT! ITS THE GOVERNMENT! NOPE – BUT IT MAYBE A DUCK! It had to happen but CW Assets – a property company on Thailand’s eastern seaboard –  now seems to be explaining away delays in its construction projects due to last week’s sudden stampede of Cambodian […]