2014

Satish (Facebook) The announcement on MCOT online today that the Centre to Maintain Peace and Order has ordered the Immigration Department to deport Satish Seghal, a well-respected Indian businessman and ardent royalist, is being met with incredulity in many places. Whether Chalerm Yubamrung’s command will be followed or whether this is just more hot air […]

 MIXED MESSAGES AT PATTAYA COURT British journalist Andrew Drummond was today further acquitted of libel under the Computer Crime Act but a charge ruled him guilty of criminal libel for allowing two letters sent in by readers to be posted on the site www.andrew-drummond.com. He is appealing the latter judgment. Drummond was fined 40,000 baht […]

Apologies to readers of this site who were expecting comment and analysis on the Thai election. The owner of this site is trying to go to bed. He has no news or analysis. He did however write a few words in reply to requests such as ‘What were you wearing when you were dodging bullets? […]

A Bangkok ambulance man high on crystal methamphetamine sexually assaulted an attractive patient while she was unconscious and left her to drown in a canal. He picked up the 28-year-old office worker who collapsed while having dinner at a city restaurant, but instead of taking her to a hospital, he parked up sexually assaulted her, […]

Twitter pic Seven people were injured including two journalists after gunmen opened fire at an anti-government demonstration in Bangkok today causing extreme concern over further, perhaps more serious, violence at a planned national election tomorrow. The violent scenes took part at the Laksi junction area of Bangkok as anti-government supporters attempted to disrupt the distribution […]

More and more rumours are spreading from the corporate offices of Thai Airways and yet again they involve former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Last month the airline was subject to the rumour that the company would be declared bankrupt this year – in May actually.  Chadchart Sittipunt the Minister of Transport, was forced to deny […]

I haven’t a thing to wear for the Election, er, season. I certainly don’t want one of those green armbands which will identify me as foreign media.  The last thing I want to happen is to be called to debate Thai politics with anyone on any stage anywhere, whether its with a gay rights activist […]

TRAINING INTERRUPTED AS THEY SET OFF IN HIGH SPEED PURSUIT OF THE RAJAMANGALA KNICKER SNATCHER Thai paralympians in London A bunch of Thai Paralympic stars, fed up with their underpants being stolen in Bangkok, set a trap for the thief and caught him after a chase -with one star in hot pursuit riding a special […]

The caretaker Thai government’s rather Orwellian named Centre for the Maintenance of Peace and Order, now being nicknamed by some subversive British expats as ‘Compo’, has asked the Immigration department to deal with troublesome foreigners in relation to the current protests in Bangkok. In a briefing to press given by Tharit Pengdit the controversial chief of […]

Recently I have had to delete quite a few ranting posts against the British Embassy in Bangkok. Perhaps this needs an explanation. The fact is that Embassy officials are working under very restrictive rules about what they can and cannot do for British citizens in Thailand. There are more can’t dos than can dos. This […]