2016

BOOZE, BIRDS AND ‘LOADSAMONEY’ UBER ALLES Investors particularly in South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand need to be careful of a current boiler room fraud operating from ‘rooms’ in Manila, Cebu, and Bangkok.   Two fake companies are actively involved and have websites pretending to be in New York and Portland, Oregon.    Capital […]

PLUS ‘WHO’S ON THE RUN?’ A South African businessman who was jailed for two weeks in Thailand and forbidden to leave the country for a year after demanding a refund from two prostitutes who did not provide any sex services has been acquitted by a court in the resort of Pattaya. Mark Berchowitz, who publishes […]

STATEMENT ISSUED FROM BANGKOK INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. ‘So long human rights repressors!’ British migrant workers activist Andy Hall tonight issued a statement saying he was leaving Thailand with no planned return date. In a statement issued from Suvarnabhumi International airport, Hall, who was the subject of several libel cases due to his exposure of alleged breaches […]

BUT STILL HE’S GOING THROUGH HELL COMMENT Congratulations are in order today for Andy Hall after the Supreme Court in Thailand finally dismissed a libel case brought over an interview he gave al-jazeera television describing conditions for Burmese migrant labourers at a Natural Fruit plant in the Thai province of Prachuap Khiri Kan. Congratulations as […]

WHERE TO NEXT FOR JAMES GUIDO EGLITIS? Australian James Guido Eglitis, aka James An, who was first exposed on this site as a boiler room fraudster in the U.S. and wanted on kidnapping charges in Australia, has surfaced in Bangkok after escaping robbery charges in Cambodia. In Bangkok yesterday. In mourning? The 70-year-old career criminal […]

Thailand’s Supreme Court will rule this week on decisions to acquit migrant workers activist Andy Hall of defaming the Natural Fruit Company. Andy Hall was acquitted at the Bangkok Criminal Court in Prakanong and at the Appeal Court. It seems that he should be acquitted again, but nothing is written in stone in Thailand, and […]

THAI DICTATOR HOPES FOR GOOD PUBLICITY FROM ACTOR STEVEN SEAGALL I have been having a little hibernation organising my files and doing some private writing. However recent pictures of Hollywood B movie actor Steven Seagal posing with Thailand’s dictator General Prayuth Chan-Ocha caused a retching moment. It’s not that I can stand the sight of […]

IT WAS THE ACCIDENT LAST WEEK I BLAME As I anticipated American Drew Walter Noyes,61, is heading for legal action as he is ‘feeling mad at Home Depot, 5511, Carolina Beach Road, Wilmington, North Carolina.’ He claims a pole snapped, and knocked him out. Now, he says, he has 6 months’ memory loss and his […]

‘REFLECTS BADLY ON THAILAND? IT WILL BE BANNED In a deeply unhappy week for the Thai military government it has retaliated by threatening foreigners to shut up for face arrest. The junta has had a series of bad news breaks. First up was Thailand’s self-appointed Prime Minister General Chan-Ocha, who threatened to ban the film […]

Alas – sad news from across the pond in North Carolina where Drew Noyes, currently on the run from a jail sentence and conviction for extortion in Pattaya, Thailand, has been hit by an iron bar in his local Home Depot. It is reported that even though he complained to Home Depot personnel they would […]