HE COULD DEAL WITH ARTHUR SCARGILL BUT NOT THAILAND’S IMMIGRATION POLICE In its continuing onslaught against foreigners Thailand has cut short the annual holiday of British journalist and author Maurice Jones and told him to get packing in seven days. Jones, a well-known and feisty journalist front the north of England wrote the amusing novel […]

CONVICTED BANK ROBBER ARMED BY POLICE IN THAILAND FOR TERROR These are the moments a Thai policeman handed over a gun to a former ‘Double Category A’ British convict in the Thai resort of Hua Hin. The recipient was Jason Coghlan a convicted criminal and bank robbery and brother of the boss of one of […]

DREW NOYES AND BRIAN GOUDIE HIT THE DUST – BUT LITTLE THANKS TO THAILAND’S JUSTICE SYSTEM With the confirmation of the conviction and jailing of Drew Noyes, former publisher of the Pattaya Times newspaper – and the conviction and new arrest warrants for fake British lawyer Brian Goudie, aka Goldie, now is the time perhaps […]

AND THEY CAN’T GO TO COURT IF THEY ARE SCAMMED!  Silver They are at it again – the outrageous duo American Richard Ian Silver and his former Thai mistress Imorn Leukhamkarn the purveyors of mostly imaginary condominiums in Thailand’s mafia controlled eastern seaboard. Having taken cash on three condominium projects – Bang Saray Beach, Bang […]

‘I KNOW I WILL DIE TRYING’ The publisher and editor of the Samui Times online newspaper has returned to Britain after being troubled by the trial and guilty verdict against the two young Burmese Wai Phyo and Zaw Lin for the murders of Britons Hannah Witheridge and David Miller. Suzanne Buchanan was reported to be […]

BUT DREW NOYES CONVICTION OFFERS SCANT HOPE FOR FOREIGNERS CHEATED IN PATTAYA The Thai Appeal Court today confirmed the conviction of Drew Noyes – a fake lawyer and self-appointed foreign adviser to the Mayor of the Thai sex tourism resort of Pattaya on a charge of extortion. The 60-year-old from Wilmington, North Carolina, failed to […]

JOURNALISTS SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO TAKE FULL NOTES – Solicitors International A report by Solicitors International Human Rights Group has quietly condemned Thailand’s justice system after monitoring the trial of Burmese Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo for the murder of Briton David Miller and murder and rape of Hannah Witheridge. Couched in polite terms the […]

‘PROPERTY AGENTS HAVE RUINED MY COMPANY’ –  SAYS BOSS OF IMAGINARY HOLIDAY CONDOS This is the man known as ‘Richie’ and Richard Ian Silver who is conning millions of baht out of property buyers on Thailand’s eastern seaboard. He was recently caught dining out in ‘Sizzler’ restaurant in Pattaya with his latest female companion. An […]

‘ALSO I GET TO GO TO THE 7/11 WHEN I WANT’ Spare a thought today for poor old Matthias Schoenfeld. This sprightly pensioner who goes under the name Webfact does not have the 800,000 baht deposit to show for his retirement visa every year so his employer Thai Visa takes responsibility for that for him. […]

ALLEGATIONS OF FRAUD, BLACKMAIL AND CASH FOR VISAS REVEALED AFTER SELL OUT TO NEW FRONT MAN From its grubby beginnings in a small office off Bangkok’s Sukhumvit Road to its sale last year for a reported US$2million* this week  we investigate what its new owners describe as Thailand’s biggest media site for foreigners.     […]