‘AN ATTEMPT TO STIFLE SERIOUS REPORTING OF LABOUR ABUSES IN THAILAND’
-A CHILLING AFFECT!- “Prosecution strikes at the very core of efforts by human rights defenders to end pervasive abuses of workers !in Thailand’s export industry.” (PIC:Andy Hall with Aung San Suu Kyi. Last year he took her on an unofficial trip to see Burmese workers in Mahachai on the Gulf of Thailand outside Bangkok.) In […]
Maggie’s Part In My Downfall
How can I let the death of former British Premier Margaret Thatcher pass without a word? Well easily actually. But I thought at least I would congratulate Thai TV Channel 5 for using not a picture of Maggie but a picture of Meryl Streep, who acted the part of Maggie Thatcher in the film ‘Iron […]
‘THEY CAN JAIL ME. I DO NOT CARE. I WILL WIN’ – SAYS BRITON SOUGHT FOR CRITICISING THAI BOSSES
TINNED PINEAPPLE MAN MAY OPEN CAN OF WORMS! A British human rights activist yesterday pledged that he would go to jail if need be to defend Burmese workers in Thailand whom he says are being abused producing goods for shops in Britain and Europe and the United States. Following the issue of criminal and civil […]
Finnwatch throws down the gauntlet at Natural Foods – Thailand
POOR WORKING CONDITIONS, UNLAWFULLY LOW WAGES, CONFISCATION OF OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS, USE OF CHILD LABOUR, EXCESSIVE OVERTIME – CLAIMS* The following statement is issued by Finnwatch, a Finnish non-profit organisation (www.finnwatch.org), with regard to Briton Mr Andy Hall’s court hearing brought by Natural Fruit Company in Thailand at Bangkok South Criminal Court today, April Fool’s Day, […]
HARLEQUIN and the BBC – ‘THE GREAT SAVINGS WIPEOUT’ POSTPONED
DODGY PROPERTY COMPANY SAYS THE BBC ATTEMPTED TO BRIBE – A BBC Panorama programme based on David Ames and the Harlequin Property group has been postponed following claims that the producer had offered a Harlequin consultant a bribe. The programme called: “The Great Savings Wipeout” was planned to be an exposé of David Ames and […]
THE GREAT BRITISH BANGER HEADS FOR THAI COURT
-WAR WAGED OVER CUMBERLAND FAT BOY ! First it was Pie Wars – that’s when Britain’s merchants of steak and kidney and chicken pies went to war in Pattaya, Thailand, and police were called to a punch up in Jomtien on the eastern seaboard where fists (and snooker cues) flew and guns were drawn. Now […]
Just what is going on in Arakan State?
AND HOW REFORMED IS BURMA (MYANMAR) REALLY? The abuse of the Rohingya in Burma continues. At the same time foreign companies and tourists are flooding in to the newly reformed country. Well just how reformed is it? Where are the forces in Burma defending this minority, whose very right to existence seems to be denied? […]
Harlequin lavished millions on promotions but built little
£1 MILLION SPENT ON 2 DAY PROMOTION ATTENDED BY THE PRIME MINISTERS OF ST. LUCIA AND ST.VINCENT. HAVE PATTAYA OFFICIALS LUCKED OUT? (In the British sense of the expression) Intrepid local paper sleuth John Austin of the Basildon Echo in the U.K. is pressing on with his enquiry into the locally based Harlequin Property Company […]
International film festival taken over by weenie directors?
THAI FILM FESTIVAL – NO TRANSPARENCY CLAIM -Flying Sporran Culture- I am hearing grumbles about the heavily promoted Thailand Film Destination Festival which begins next month. A competition was organized to bring 100 film makers from around the world to Thailand. It appears just 48 are from overseas, and 33 of those from south east […]
I’VE GOTTA GET ME A GUN!
THAI AUTHORITIES HUNT DOWN BRITISH JOURNALIST AGAIN, er, SORT OF, MAYBE, er, NOT. -Flying Sporran’s Weekend Diary- Just back from a weekend on the beach on Samet with the kids to find that Drew Noyes, Thailand’s most famous American, is still burning the midnight candles churning out anti-andrew-drummond stuff on his computer. He latest offering […]
