REIGN OF PATTAYA’S CHIEF ‘FOREIGN COP’ AND ‘MEDIA TYCOON’ DRAWS TO AN END With his media empire collapsing about him Niels Colov, the former Copenhagen pimp, who rose to the giddy heights of a newspaper tycoon and chief of the local police foreign volunteersin Pattaya, is making one last desperate bid for survival. With the […]

Every time that I read that migrant workers in Thailand are being prosecuted for stealing their time cards, by a Thai chicken processing company accused of labour abuse I can’t help giggling. (Pause) How is the court going to assess the value of the time cards  -50 satang or the millions the company will have […]

Need a lawyer in Thailand? Here’s where not to look. SOMSAK CHOPAKA Well, you’re now fed up with foreign crooks in Thailand. One has taken you for a couple of million baht and you have had a confrontation with him and he’s not giving it back. So, you have called him a crook online to […]

Hoss won’t be happy either* Some Brits have all the luck. Poor old Londoner Damon Wait has been caught again. And it’s happened on the day The Sun in London posed the question:  ‘Will Thailand be the next country to bore of boozy Brits?’  Damon, who was caught last year with a bag of ‘China white’ heroin and a massive stash […]

The popular Thai expat website ThaiVisa.com has published a story stating that British boiler room fraudster Toby Nelhams, the believed mastermind behind the murder of fellow Briton Tony Kenway in Pattaya last January, had been released by Cambodian police as long ago as last October. If that’s true then for Nelhams, who was found guilty […]

Thailand’s effort to put an end to slave labour in the fishing industry is little more then a ‘theatrical exercise for international consumption’, states a report out today. While the Thai government scrambled to create a new ordinance for the fishing industry after severe criticism both of fishing methods and trafficked slave labour by the […]

MONEY MONEY MONEY. IT’S A RICH MAN’S WORLD Mark Hallett, from Somerset wanted in the UK for fraud and moneylaundering, photographs 1 million baht in a Bangkok apartrment When the defence lawyers for Zaw Lynn and Wai Phyo, the two Burmese charged and convicted for the murders in Thailand of Britons David Miller and Hannah […]

BUT WILL SEATTLE ACADEMIC EVER SEE THE US$500,000 COMPENSATION?   Janpen Oxley (Andrew Chant) *Thai Supreme Court confirms life sentence against main conspirator – the wife of Briton facing drug charges back home. *18 Million Thai baht (US$550,000) damages to widow of former U.S. Marine gunned down in Hua Hin. The Thai Supreme Court has […]

MILITARY DETENTION OR A TRIP TO THE RIVER KWAI Concerns have been raised over he safety of a critic of the Thai monarchy, who was seized yesterday by the Thai military on the eve of the lavish cremation ceremonies for the late Thai King Bumiphol Adulyadej. Ekkachai – file photo Ekkachai Hongkangwan, a market trader, […]

AHEAD OF HIS TIME?   Plans to accept payment in Bitcoin for citizenship or the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu have been shelved. The move, announced by Lord Geoffrey Bond, once a leading figure in Bangkok’s ‘night life’ has been declared a non-starter. Bond, right, with David Napuat, Secetary for Provincial Affairs and lawyers, […]