2015

‘NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE -NO MATTER WHERE YOU COME FROM’  (except Melbourne) Flying Sporran’s Weekend |Dairy Raymond Chang – one of the two Chinese Americans of the Shanghai American School who have been charged with the vicious attack on Jack Hansen-Bartel in Koh Samui last year has made a video to promote China’s friendship […]

Jack Hansen-Bartel, with mask,  behind Andy Hall, with defence lawyer at court today It seemed a sober moment, perhaps even a warning to the media just as the  controversial murder trial of the accused killers of British  backpackers Hannah Witheridge and David Miller was due to start on the Thai island of Koh Samui. “The […]

THAI JUSTICE ON TRIAL The trial over the controversial  murders of British backpackers Hannah Witheridge and David Miller is to start in a few hours time on the Thai holiday island of Koh Samui. But first the judges will have to rule whether the defence will be allowed to examine DNA evidence and the method […]

Having seen quite a few drunken policemen in Thailand I could not avoid submitting this video picked up today by a Thai newspaper of a drunk cop stopping a motorist in Bangkok. The cop admits being drunk ‘a little bit’. Motorist: “You’re a police officer. You’re on duty! Are you drunk?” Cop: “Mao nid noi!” […]

INVESTOR ALERT – REGISTERED OR NOT DON’T GO WITH THAI BASED FINANCIAL ADVISERS Malada –  an artists impression The Thai Securities Exchange Commission has put up on its website investor alerts naming a number of foreign financial advisory firms which have not been registered in Thailand. They include several exposed on this site. A reader […]

PATTAYA COURT ACCEPTS CASE AGAINST A BRAZILIAN BASED BRIT OILMAN BY SENDING SUMMONS TO HOTEL – IN THAILAND Two weeks ago we posed the question asking whether Koh Samui court could be the worst court in Thailand.  Well naturally we thought there might be a few other contenders for that title – and sure enough […]

CAUGHT TRYING TO GET FILES BACK FROM LAWYER – VARD IS CARTED OFF BY POLICE. The controversy over Jessie Vard, the young Irish girl who has been exposing Thai corruption on the internet after her dad was robbed of seven houses in Phuket, came to blows yesterday in a lawyer’s office in Bangkok. Former Dublin […]

Flying Sporran’s Weekend Diary Computers -yes, just . But it was easier to pick up the phone and reverse the charges to London  talk down the phone and let somebody else do the editing. Wow. Today I was watching Lionel Richie perform at Glastonbury which would take me an hour and a half to reach […]

NOT A LOT IT SEEMS Three programmes have crashed over the last month at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand – or rather they have been cancelled at the orders of the current Thai military government. The latest a few hours ago was to have been a presentation by Human Rights Watch on the ill-treatment […]

THAILAND’S POSSIBLY MOST DECORATED FOREIGNER TAKES NEW THAI BRIDE UP THE AISLE (Flying Sporran’s Midweek Social Diary) Wow! When it rains it pours. Having just congratulated Colin de Jong on being tracked down in Pattaya by the daughter he was parted from many years ago – it seems I have to congratulate Niels Colov, the […]