After ‘You’re going to jail you faggot’ taunt –  English ‘co-ordinator’ gets suspended sentence. ‘If you think Thailand is very low standard, why don’t you go back and die there in your isolated home with your Thai wife who suck your blood all the time and forever.’ Stories of what how English language teachers are treated […]

BUT WILL CHEATED BUYERS PUT HIM IN JAIL? THAI POLICE WON’T. Briton Richard Haughton – the man behind the ‘Emerald Palace’ condo scam in Pattaya has returned to Thailand and now lives in a village in Hua Hin run by the infamous Dutch property developer Dingeman ‘Dinkie’ Hendrikse. Haughton The corpulent former President of the […]

KIDS POWER – WE’VE HAD ENOUGH!  WE WANT TO PLAY!  End Phuket Corruption Now! Jessie Vard and her brother Daire at Ministry of Justice A YouTube video from a 16-year-old Irish girl brought up in Thailand condemning the corruption of police and officials has gone viral with other children now posting on the internet site […]

Jack Hansen-Bartel, the recently graduated pupil of the New International School of Thailand involved in the ‘Green Mango” controversy  left for Australia at the weekend to a send-off from friends and colleague – not forgetting his campaigning mum Annie Hansen. Judges in Koh Samui have ordered his mother not to issue any more statements to […]

BUT DON’T WORRY – WE CAN GET ROUND THIS ONE TOO! Ninety year leases provided to foreigners acquiring properties in Thailand have been ruled null and void by the Thai courts – the Phuket News trumpets. The matter has still to go to the Supreme Court but the appeal court ruled that this is the […]

Thai Lawyers for Human Rights have announced details of six cases they are defending brought by Thailand’s military officers.  The cases which start next week include social and labour activists, a poet and even a person with a long history of mental problems, the lawyers group claims. One of the defendants alleges he was tortured. […]

THE AMERICAN OR CHINESE WAY? Chang Just been down to my local mall to have a coffee with Annie Hansen – the mother of Jack Hansen-Bartel who was seriously attacked on Koh Samui last year and has recently undergone more corrective surgery. If any case is worth observing to see how the Thai justice system […]

BUT ONLY IF YOU READ THIS! Since being put on Thailand’s Security Exchange Investor Alert List, Platinum Financial Services have been flooding the internet with Twitter messages, and mass emailing, to attract, in particular, British citizens to transfer their pensions offshore where of course PFS would look after them. Last month started a QROPS site […]

Bangkok Post Two young graduates were jailed for five years to, reduced to two and a half because they pleaded guilty, on lèse majesté charges in Bangkok.  The news travelled quickly around the world but what seemed to come across was how dignified the students have actually behaved. Patiwat Saraiyaem, 23, and Porntip Mankong had […]

FLYING SPORRAN’S DIARY Nong Nooch line-up The story of Jessie Vard and her father who had all his investments in Thailand stolen from under him is of course alarming.  But its commonplace I am afraid to say.  It demonstrates a complete and utter breakdown in Thailand’s justice system. And I am afraid it demonstrates that […]