INVESTOR ALERT CREATED OVER BANGKOK POST FINANCIAL WRITER’S DODGY INVESTMENT COMPANY
HOW RAMMING A POINT HOME IN THAILAND SOMETIMES NEEDS MORE THAN A SLEDGEHAMMER! Platinum Financial Services whose executive director Andrew Wood provides weekly advice in the Bangkok Post has been put on a Securities Exchange of Thailand’s Investor Alert list. Wood’s last column in the Bangkok Post was to advise expatriate Brits how to invest […]
AN END TO THAILAND’S SHAMEFUL TIGER ‘SANCTUARY’
Picture used to promote a tour of Tiger Temple. Spot the mistake! Yes, you’re right. The baby is not yet actually in the tiger’s mouth Officers of the Department of National Parks were still moving animals out of Wat Pha Luang Tu Bua in Kanchanaburi, best known as the ‘Tiger Temple’, today after finally acting […]
BORDER CROSSING WITH ANNIE!
Flying Sporran’s SE-Asian pre-‘Frozen’ tour diary Apologies to readers of this site if entries have been somewhat erratic but the Flying Sporran is currently on tour in south east Asia. Annie, Matthew, Archie and I have been having a ball. Our recent departure was slightly hurried as a couple of the border crossings may not […]
BURMESE ARMY CONTINUES TO TORTURE AND KILL KACHIN MINORITY –
DEATH MUTE GAVE AWAY NOTHING! While the Thai Army continues its reign unfettered, the Burmese Army or Tatmadaw continues with impunity to torture, rape and kill members of the ethnic Kachins in north Burma – with only muted criticism by the international community now that the country is big business. The Free Burma Rangers have […]
THAILAND – WHAT HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION?
THAILAND’S NEW NOT SO HIDDEN AGENDA. New plans will hinder murder enquiries too For those who have not noticed the current Thai military led government has been quietly curtailing basic human rights and the ability of organisations to question government and official conduct. Already the powers of Thailand’s FBI – the Department of Special Investigations […]
THE FAKE JUDGMENTS OF BRIAN GOUDIE
‘LAWYER CAUGHT ON TAPE’ SEVERELY EDITED IPSO JUDGMENT A complaint has been lodged by British journalist Andrew Drummond to the Independent Press Standards Organisation claiming a fake British lawyer operating in Thailand has published a false judgment on his website CasewatchAsia.blogspot.com. and Liveleak.com Brian Goudie, formerly Goldie, who was jailed for six years in Australia […]
AUSSIE JOURNO RETURNS TO THAILAND DEFIANTLY – TO TAKE ON NAVY
Alan Morison the Australian journalist who has been hounded by the Royal Thai Navy has returned defiantly to Thailand for fight libel cases brought against him and colleague Chutima Sidasathian, the Guardian is reporting today. Morison and Chutima face trial over one sentence in a Reuters report which they published on the plight of the […]
British Journalist Absent – Supreme Court issued mandatory arrest warrant
James Lumsden (right) The Thai Supreme Court has as expected issued an arrest warrant for British journalist Andrew Drummond (the owner of this site) for failing to attend a hearing on a final judgment on a libel case brought by James Lumsden, former joint proprietor of ‘Boyz Boyz Boyz’ Club in Pattaya. This is a […]
‘I need help’ – says teacher caught with 52,750 plus child porn pictures and videos
EXPAT TEACHER HAD MASSIVE CHILD PORN STASH A 47-year-old Briton, described as a former head teacher at a school in Thailand, has walked free from a court on charges relating to the possession of some 52,000 pornographic images of children. Sean Jamieson, of Middleborough Road, South Bank, had left the images on a hard disc […]
KOH TAO JUSTICE CAMPAIGN – STATEMENT
The Migrant Worker Rights Network has launched a new appeal to raise cash to defend the two young Burmese migrant workers Zaw Lin and Wei, both aged 21, who have been accused of the murders of Britons Hannah Witheridge and David Miller and the rape of Hannah on the Thai island of Koh Tao last […]
