WOMAN WAS DRAGGED AWAY BY FOUR MEN IN A PICK-UP TRUCK. RAPED ON A BALCONY WALKWAY- From Andrew Drummond, Bangkok- –Daily Mail, Daily Record, Mirror, Metro, Scotsman– Police in Thailand are seeking four men who allegedly gang raped a student of the University of the Highlands and Islands at the weekend. Second floor walkway next to Robinson’s […]

MYSTERY G-MAIL MAN’S EMAIL THREATS- ‘WANT TO PLAY ROUGH?’- BAT CAVE MAN OR JOKER? A judge in Pattaya, Thailand, has ruled that there was insufficient evidence to prove that Drew Walter Noyes, a man exposed by a newspaper in the United States for fraud, and not being able to recognise what the truth is, was […]

THE PATTAYA TRUTH – OUT AT LAST A libel case brought by Pattaya businessman Andre Machielsen against Drew Noyes, the city’s most famous American was today dismissed by a judge at the Pattaya Provincial Court on the grounds of insufficient evidence.  Drew Noyes, the founding father of the prestigious Pattaya Times, and one of Thailand’s foremost […]

HIS CAR WAS TORCHED. HE WAS GUNNED DOWN AND PARALYSED FOR LIFE. THEN HE GOT FINANCIAL ADVICE IN BANGKOK! ** (Pic:Donald ‘Biff’ Whiting) Former U.S. Marine Donald ‘Biff’ Whiting may possibly be resentful of settling down in Thailand with his wife Dolly a senior educationalist. Readers of this site will already know how he was […]

HOME BUYERS IN CHIANG MAI FIND THEMSELVES CAUGHT UP IN THE DRUGS POLITICS OF THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE Foreign home owners in Chiang Mai have been caught between a rock and a hard place after the arrest of a major developer for murder and suspicions that a foreign housing development in the city has been built […]

“YOU HAVE TO PAY 7 MILLION BAHT PROTECTION” – CLAIMED PUBLISHER OF PATTAYA TIMES “BUT MY WIFE – THE EDITOR – MAY BE ABLE TO LOWER THE BRIBE AND SOFTEN THEM UP” Goulet, left, fingers Noyes and Boonsu , who boasted high police contacts The Australian director of a beauty and health clinic in Thailand […]

I GO TO THAILAND WITH A PACKET OF SMALL SIZED CONDOMS FOR BUSINESS American’s most famous comedy show ‘Saturday Night Live’ has come up with yet another sketch which has enraged Thais here. On the heels of British television which sent up Thailand’s sex trade with the character ‘Ting Tong Macadangdang’ in ‘Little Britain’  US […]

HAVE I BEEN KIPPERED AGAIN? (pic ANNIE tripped in classroom) Well I guess we have all had it at one time or other – those Thai hospital bills when you go in for a minor ailment in Thailand and are sent packing with piles of pills and a big bill. It’s happened to me many […]

Flying Sporran’s Mid-Week Diary UNESCO TO PROBE FAKE AWARDS IN THAILAND  Picture-Thailand Professionals I took time off this week to attend a conference in Pattaya about combatting foreign crime. Mayor Ittiphol Khonpluem put up a very good show appearing genuinely interested in combatting crimes against foreigners (and presumably by foreigners too). There was an impressive […]

-“I’m NOT Going To Jail – Unless I Am Ordered” – (Pic-Drew Noyes and Wanrapa Boonsu) Drew Noyes – the controversial American behind the Pattaya Times, boss of Pappa (Law) Company, and a self confessed expert on Thai libel law, told a night court in Pattaya that he would not go to jail on a […]