SOUTH EAST ASIA GENERATES US$23 BILLION ANNUALLY OUT OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING, SAYS UNODC
CAN THAILAND REALLY GIVE IT UP? This report in today from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime does is not going to help the Thai military government plans to get the country off the bottom of the United States TiP (Trafficking in Persons) report which described Thailand’s performance as ‘abysmal’ due to corruption. […]
THAI VISA’S INCOME INCOME FROM FORGERS?
GET YOUR FAKE OR REAL PASSPORTS HERE! ThaiVisa.com the largest web forum in Thailand should, as readers of this site already know, be more circumspect about its advertisers. There are many sharks advertising on its pages. And the site appears to be favourited not least of all by those who arrive in Thailand and re-invent […]
JUST WHY IS PROPERTY MAN SO ANGRY WITH THAIVISA.COM
ONE FOR YOU AND 99 FOR ME The forthcoming trial of ThaiVisa boss George Andersson on fraud charges is likely to reveal that the owner of Thailand’s most popular website, well at least in term of hits, has been hiding large chunks of his income and putting it in banks in Hong Kong. A home […]
PAPAL BLESSING RECIPIENT DEALS WITH THE DEVIL
FOREIGN POLICE VOLUNTEER LEADER HOB NOBS WITH HELLS ANGEL WHO WAS TOO BAD FOR THE BANDIDOS! Quite a few readers of our last story about Niels Colov, Thailand’s most famous former gangster turned foreign police volunteer chief in Thailand, picked up on our tease picture of the man himself posing with the Bandidos. And the […]
PATTAYA NEWS ‘MAGNATE’ CUTS SALARIES TO TAKE A PHILIPPINES BREAK
Staff at the Pattaya People Media Group run by former Copenhagen gangster Niels Colov, now a reformed leader of the Pattaya Police Foreign Volunteers, are reported to have had their wages cut by 50 per cent amid rumours that the ‘media empire’ might come crashing down. They are even more concerned that Colov, who set […]
DRUGS DEATH ON KOH PHANGAN – THAI POLICE NOW ADMIT UNUSUAL CIRCUMSTANCES
WILL SEND BRIEF TO PROSECUTOR IN ONE OR TWO MONTHS Brodie Smith Following revelations here I have sadly to report that the that there is no manhunt for the two Americans who administered Ibogaine to Brodie Noel Smith. We revealed here that Brodie died, not by shooting himself up as the police report said, but […]
EDITORS DUEL OVER ‘CADET’ REPORTER AND SENSITIVE THAI NAVY
A line appears to have been drawn under the spat between the Bangkok Post and the Columbia Journalism Review and the Bangkok Post over an article by former reporter Justin Heifetz. The Bangkok Post reacted angrily to an article by Heifetz who fled the newspaper after facing the might of the Thai Admiralty after it […]
THAI GOVERNMENT INTERNET BLOCK ON INVESTIGATIONS SITE – NOT THOUGHT OUT
A block by the Thai government on this site seems to have done little so far to diminish readership figures, indicating that many people in Thailand may have already set up VPN connections. Page views are still hovering around the 10,000 mark and at the moment I am considering further actions to make articles more […]
ANDREW DRUMMOND BLOCKED BY THAI MILITARY GOVERNMENT
The Thai Military Government has blocked this site, the website of British journalist Andrew Drummond in Thailand, for reasons yet to be made clear, apart from the fact it is viewed by somebody as damaging to Thailand. The block was imposed last Friday and relates only to viewership in Thailand. The site can be seen […]
INVESTOR ALERT – UK EXPAT PENSIONS
Most readers of this site will be aware of Alan Hall the former ‘independent financial adviser’ – and I use that expression loosely, based in Chiang Mai. But here’s another warning for Expats perhaps in other countries. Beware of this ‘UK Expat Pensions’. This is Alan Hall’s website and of course back home up t’north […]
