The current Thai military government claims it is on a drive to end corruption but seems unwilling to stem corruption within its own ranks.  Now they’re being asked or told to leave human rights defenders alone – and the Thai government claims it is improving human rights in the fishing industry and clamping down on […]

‘I AM UNABLE TO BE DIPLOMATIC OR PROFESSIONAL AT THIS POINT’ BROTHER TELLS EMBASSY JOIN ME IN MY NIGHTMARES! Security cameras in the Thai hotel, where the battered body of ‘beloved’ American university professor James Archibald Hughes was found, were not functioning. The six CCTV units had not recorded anything for more than two years, […]

FORMER GIRVAN ACADEMY BOYS WINS THAI PRISON JACKPOT Former brothel owner David Hanks, former partner of extortionist Drew Noyes and con-man and fake lawyer Brian Goudie, has taken over as the front man to extort foreign prisoners in Pattaya jail. Hanks Both Noyes and Goudie have both been given jail sentence then bail to appeal […]

IT’S NOT OVER UNTIL IT’S OVER! Police in Hua Hin are to present the results of their findings into their investigation into the death of American academic James Hughes, 58, at a meeting at the United States Embassy in Bangkok this coming Friday. The Hua Hin Superintendent Police Lt. Colonel Sittichai Srisophajaroenrat has again stressed […]

INQUIRY STUMBLES OVER MULTIPLE WOUNDS OF PROFESSOR WHO POLICE SAID DIED OF ‘UNDERLYING DISEASE’ The Royal Thai police force, which appears to have passed off yet another possible murder of a foreigner with their familiar finding of ‘stopped breathing, heart stopped beating’ and ‘no foul play suspected’, now have their work cut out trying to […]

The BBC’s Jonathan Head, who is being sued for what a lot more foreign correspondents in Thailand should have been doing for years, is finding out just what it means to get involved in Thailand’s controversial legal system. Jonathan confronts lawyer in Phuket. Jonathan, who took up the cases of Briton’s Ian Rance and Irishman […]

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 […]