2014

GOLD AND CASH STASH WORTH BILLIONS FOUND IN HOME OF HEAD OF CENTRAL INVESTIGATION BUREAU The nerve centre of the Royal Thai Police was operated as some sort of Crime Incorporated according to reports today, as some of its most powerful officers were brought before the Bangkok criminal court on corruption charges. The former chief […]

THAILAND SINGLED OUT IN SHOOTING CASE IN BAD WEEK FOR FCO. Britain’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office has been condemned by MPs for failing to offer acceptable levels of help to Britons in trouble abroad, according to a report in today’s Observer. The Foreign Office which has had its budget substantially slashed has even failed to […]

British Consul Sounds Off –  Sharky Sounds Off –  Verapat Sounds Off AS THAI POLICE APPEAR TO PROTECT CRIMINALS AND PROSECUTE THE INNOCENT This week was again not a good week for the Thai Police and the country’s justice system with several people sounding off both at home and abroad. Carpenter In Phuket British Consul […]

CHARMING THAI COMMERCIAL GETS MIXED REVIEWS “O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us!” – Rabbie Burns The video short ‘I hate Thailand’ commissioned by the Tourist Authority of Thailand to counter the recent negative publicity the country has been receiving, has also garnered a lot of attention […]

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES IN FUND MANAGEMENT. The Australian Securities and Investment Commission has at last started to take proceedings against LM Investment Management which has taken down hundreds of millions in people’s pensions. But the victims are not exactly going to be thrilled with the news.  What many see are out and out criminal offences ASIC […]

REFORMED LESS AGGRESSIVE SHARKY BECOMES PATTAYA AGONY AUNT In with the new reformed Tim ‘Sharky’ Ward Today comes the not unexpected news that Tim ‘Sharky’ Ward – who has been besieging Pattaya Police station and accusing officers of attempting to fit him up with drugs  and stealing a fortune in gold from his apartment, has […]

EVEN HANDED SAMUI STYLE The public prosecutor in Koh Samui – the same man prosecuting the two Burmese for the murders of Hannah Witheridge – is a man of two minds – according to an answer he has supplied to the Thai National Human Rights Commission. In the case of Jack Hansen-Bartel, who was brutally […]

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION TO POLICE: ‘ANSWER TORTURE CHARGES PLEASE’ One of many tasteless pictures appearing on Thai Facebook pages The two young Burmese men charged with the murder of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on the Thai island of Koh Tao were hit, suffocated with plastic bags, and threatened they would be drowned if they […]

ELEPHANT ON RAMPAGE WITH MUM AND 8-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER A woman tourist and her young daughter were taken on a terrifying three kilometer ride on the back of a raging elephant which first trampled its mahout to death, Thai television reported tonight. Posing happily at the start of the ride – PICTURE ASTV The woman and […]

One of the worst scandals in the annals of tourism’ – Daily Mail Flying Sporran’s Weekend Diary As Thailand takes some hard knocks from a book about to be published called ‘Destination: Deadly Thailand’ – described by the Daily Mail as exposing  ‘one of the worst scandals in the annals of modern tourism’ – some […]