FATHER FINALLY GETS SOME CLOSURE AFTER A REMARKABLE INVESTIGATION BRITISH JOURNALIST COMMENDED BY THAILAND’S HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSIONER Sergeant Uthai Dechachiwat never even glanced as the father of Canadian backpacker Leo del Pinto as they sat on parallel benches two metres apart at Chiang Mai Provincial Court. Five years eight months after Uthai gunned down 25-year-old […]

Australian mining millionairess Gina Rinehart has tended her resignation as honorary advisory to the board of the Cambodian based charity SISHA after revelations on this site. Her move follows the resignation of former Victoria, Australia, policeman Steve Morrish as executive director of the charity known for its activities in tracking down foreitgn paedophiles. Gina Rinehart, […]

WHEELS OF JUSTICE GRIND ON- The trial of Pattaya Times publisher Drew Noyes and his common law wife Wanrapa Boonsu for the attempted extortion of the Thonglor Clinic – Jomtien – has been adjourned until November*. (Picture: Dr. Michael Goulet points to Drew Noyes and Wanrapa Boonsu after they were arrested in a ‘sting’) And […]

CLAIMS ONLINE ATTACKS ON HIM WERE AFFECTING SISHA The controversial executive director of SISHA in Cambodia Steve Morrish today handed in his resignation. The board of the charity has accepted it and appointed an interim CEO Mr. Ron Dunne. The former Victoria, Australia,  detective leaves the organisation amid allegations of financial impropriety and bullying tactics. […]

ANTI-PAEDO ‘AUSSIE THUGS’ HOLD HOSTAGES IN BAR AS WHISTLEBLOWERS LEAK FINANCIAL REPORTS. WATCHING THE DETECTIVES! A paedophile hunting charity  in Cambodia run by former Australian and British policemen is mired with allegations of financial irregularities and accusations of ‘behaviour like thugs.’ Picture: How a Chinese magazine presented SHISHA. The caption reads ‘If anyone can, Ayia […]

Oh the humiliation of it all. Students at Kasetsart University in Bangkok have, as this picture shows, been humiliatingly forced to wear anti-cheating helmets during exams. This is apparently only a deterrent from copying from your next door neighbour’s paper. Cheating is getting so sophisticated nowadays that the flapping horse blinders won’t do much except […]

(Pic Walter Douglas but he will have changed a lot since this Amsterdam picture) ISLAND BLUES! Plus: Will Drew Noyes and Brian Goudie now be denounced in Britain? Flying Sporran’s Midweek Diary There is a Clydeside expression which goes ‘Y’aff a yat? What yat y’aff’. Which translates roughly as ‘Prey tell me have you just disembarked […]

The Australian Crime Commission has today been blowing its trumpet a little bit, but wisely not too much, in claiming credit for the closure of a ‘boiler room’ in Bangkok in April this year.  The operators of that boiler room (illegal share trading house) were, the ACC claimed, responsible for stealing $50 million from Australian […]

IS THAILAND – ‘THE LAND OF THE FREE’ – FIRST COUNTRY TO SET UP ‘THOUGHT POLICE’? Computer crime police in Thailand have warned the public that if they click on ‘Like’ in certain posts in Facebook they could face trial and imprisonment. The message is aimed at people who might ‘like’ a change of government […]

‘GOLDIE OF THE BAILEY’S’* HONG KONG STASH – It’s a staggering amount for a wee jessie of a chiseller but information coming into my office suggests that while working in Thailand Brian Goudie deposited in his HSBC account in Hong Kong the equivalent of 23 million baht- £475,643.89 at today’s rates. This was for one […]