2017

EMPLOYEES COMPENSATED AND AWARDED 1.7 MILLION THAI BAHT US$5,2000  BUT THEY CONTINUE WITH CLAIM FOR US$1.2 MILLION In a landmark case Burmese migrant workers labouring on a poultry farm in Lopburi, central Thailand, have been awarded compensation for their abuse at the hands of their employers who were supplying chicken meat for export through the […]

FRAUD IN THAI PROPERTY MARKET COVERED UP AMID CLAIMS THAT THE SYSTEM IS ROTTEN TO THE CORE. CAUGHT IN THE ACT BUT – STILL NO ACTION AGAINST BENT THAI LAWYER PRATUAN THANARAK  Briton Ian Rance, the second defendant in the Jonathan Head BBC libel case has today also been acquitted after the Phuket lawyer, who notarised […]

ANOTHER CHAPTER IN THAILAND’S DODGY REHAB RECORD An internet appeal has gone out to raise funds for a former counsellor at a drugs and alcohol rehab centre in Koh Samui after he was arrested on drugs related charges in Pattaya. Cash is being sought for Dee Dario, a Briton, who has been involved 12 step […]

THE THAI IMMIGRATION POLICE’S ‘GOOD GUYS IN – BAD GUYS OUT’ CAMPAIGN IS NOT FLOUNDERING. IT NEVER STARTED! While Thailand’s current military dictatorship is running on a ‘end corruption’ ticket there are signs that corruption in Thailand is rising to a new peak and the people the military are arresting seem to be in areas […]

In the land where people must a worship an ageing monarch with a predilection for skimpy tops and apparently stick-on Alice in Wonderland tattoos, who has a personal fortune topping US$90 billion, it’s comforting to know that corruption continues unabated and only the uniforms have changed. Today I have been listening to a hilarious recording […]

The mother of a young Briton who was killed on the Thai island of Koh Tao, now widely referred to the media as ‘Death Island’ which is an island in the Samui ‘murder archipelago’ has started a petition to be sent to Prime Minister Theresa May. Patricia Harrington, from Reigate, Surrey, the mother of Ben […]

 THE STORY WAS LIGHT ON FACTS – BUT THE LACK OF CREDIBILITY OF THE THAI POLICE MADE THIS ONE TRAVEL GLOBALLY. While the death of Belgian Elise Delamagne on the Thai island of Koh Tao has produced reams more negative publicity for Thailand this is a story I have kept well away from because the […]

The following statement has been issued by the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand in relation to the journalists who met up with members of the TNLA (Ta’ang National Liberation Army) in Myanmar (Burma) and who have disappeared after being seized by the Burmese military. The professional membership of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand (FCCT) […]

“I AM LAUNCHING THESE CASES WITH A HEAVY HEART” ….just in from Finnwatch Lawyers representing Andy Hall, a British researcher and labour activist specialising in migrant worker rights, will tomorrow on 31st May at 9:00am (GMT+7hrs) file criminal litigation against Thailand’s Office of the Attorney General, nine Thai state prosecution officials and one senior police […]

THAILAND’S HAPPY LITTLE REFUGEES Flying Sporran’s Diary Have been very busy preparing to relocate recently, hence some inactivity here, but in between packing I have been settling down to rest by watching British television. There were four Channels when I left the UK now there are something like 200 available – most of them dire. […]