‘I AM NOT GENETICALLY CODED TO UNDERSTAND THE EXPRESSION ‘THIS IS THAILAND’ – SAYS FORMER OFFICER OF U.S. COURT Culture shock – Don’t be late with the rent Held in a hotel for 5000 rising to 13,960 baht Thailand’s ruling military government has been asked to investigate complaints by an American teacher with 15 years […]

BUT COULD A BOILER ROOM CON A GOVERNMENT? WAKEY WAKEY BANGOK! The authorities in Croatia, who are discussing a port and logistics facilities of which Sparta-Matrix holds 55 per cent of the holding company Miklavja LC, have given the so called boss Philip Wainwright some 45 days to come up with a plan and some […]

DREW NOYES MAKES VOLUPTUOUS RUSSIAN MODEL’S DREAM COME TRUE – BUT IT WAS FAKED! American Drew Noyes, currently on trial in Pattaya in an extortion case, has pulled another fast one to drive business to his ailing One-Stop-Service Center in the Thai resort of Pattaya. The ever desperate American, who started up by falsely claiming […]

SOMETHING OF A DIPLOMATIC SCREW-UP Australia’s Memorandum of Understanding with Cambodia to take refugees from the Pacific island of Nauru is coming under more and flak in the worldwide media. Already described as a new low in Australia’s deplorable treatment of asylum seekers by Amnesty International it seem that in any case none of the […]

Local holding hoe identical to murder weapon  Insensitive locals linked to tourism on the Thai holiday island of Phuket are continuing to post questionable pictures on the social media which might make foreigners ill at ease and are open to misconception. One particular man about town has posted a picture of himself holding a garden […]

BUT THAT’S GOOD NEWS! FLYING SPORRAN’S WEEKEND DIARY COMMENT Woraphan Tuvichien – Press Conference – TBS The Foreign Press corps has in the main put away its buckets and spades and stopped digging on the island of Koh Tao..A smattering remains.   I say ‘stopped digging’ but there was not much digging to do – […]

NOW THAILAND’S MILITARY RULER SENDS TROOPS TO MURDER ISLAND Businessman and local police – by Sean McAnna who thought they were mafia The son of a Thai person of influence on the Thai holiday island of Koh Tao has denied he was on the run from Thai police today as Thailand’s military ruler deployed his […]

DUBLIN PUBLICAN HELPED RAISE BAIL A former Irish taxi driver who walked out of a Thai jail on bail for brutally stabbing to death a Pattaya bar girl has surrendered to police in Dublin in connection with the multiple stabbing  of an Irish woman who was on her way to work at a children’s crèche. […]

MURDER ISLAND BAR SIGN While Thai police are still pursuing the killers of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller and dismissing mafia allegations someone has had the bad taste to put this notice up on the internet. It is allegedly a sign put up in a bar in Koh Tao which I will not name playing […]

 THEY’RE NOT MAFIA. THEY’RE RELATIVES OF THE BOSSES Thai Police investigating the murders of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on the island of Koh Tao announced a breakthrough in the murder hunt today today as they questioned the brother of a local island politician – and sought the son of another. But they denied any […]