THAILAND’S DEMOCRATIC MYTH – The Bangkok Post is currently running an editorial headed ‘Close Net on the Slave Trade’. The newspaper refers to an investigation by the Guardian newspaper in London into slavery in the fishing industry – where troublesome Burmese labourers have been literally murdered and thrown overboard. The details are horrific. One troublesome […]

ACTIVISTS BEING HELD IN SECRET -CLAIM Human Rights Watch today issued a statement criticising the military for holding on to political activist Kritsuda Khunasen and expressed concern about people being held in secret. The HRW Report follows: Twitter picture (New York, June 11, 2014) – The Thai military authorities should immediately confirm the location of […]

CLARIFICATION THE PICTURES BELOW ARE PHOTO-SHOPPED. THERE IS NO SUGGESTION THAT  NOYES OR GOUDIE HAVE TAKEN PART IN A GAY PARADE OR INDEED THAT GOUDIE WAS AN OFFICER IN THE ROYAL MARINES. Photo-shopped picture of Goudie and Noyes from subzerosiam Controversial American Drew Walter Noyes who is suing the owner of this site for criminal […]

The elusive jet-setter Roscoe Maloney – supremo of the ‘Touchwood’ forestry fiasco is currently in Cambodia presumably trying to sell the land he purchased there for one of his schemes. Sources had him departing Phnom Penh through Bangkok last week. For those wishing to talk to him police may or may not assist in providing […]

ROYAL NAVY: ‘GOUDIE? HE COULD NOT HAVE ACHIEVED A LOWER RANK IF HE TRIED’. Picture: Goudie glazed eyes after reading anothet Drummond report Brian Gerald James Goldie, known in Thailand as Brian Goudie, has been furiously fighting for his honour against multiple perceived enemies both here and abroad, claiming lies are being spread to ruin […]

 THE WEST AFRICAN CONNECTION – AND AN UNLIKELY JOURNALIST Today we bring you the first short instalment in a new occasional series on crime in Thailand.  The Flying Sporran has been with the Narcotics Suppression Division and Immigration Police on raids in Bangkok. In this taster we wake up a hidden community in the capital […]

HE TAKES PART AND EVEN HOSTS GOOGLE + ‘HANGOUTS’ ON SEX SLAVERY – BUT CAN HE USE GOOGLE? The New York Times’  ‘ace’ journalist #Pulitzer Prize winner Nicholas Kristof is having some serious personal issues having to deal with the resignation of Somaly Mam from the Somaly Mam Foundation in Cambodia. Somaly Mam had to […]

While the world’s international press and governments appear to reel in horror and I still  get communications asking if I am alright, the biggest affect the military coup in Thailand has had on my life here in Bangkok has actually to been to make me for a short while follow the news exclusively on the […]

THREE YEARS ON BRIAN WRIGHT MUST FINALLY TESTIFY  The American managing director of US Immigration Law in Bangkok, also known as My Thai Fiancée, in Bangkok, is due to testify in July on a charge of child sexual abuse, after numerous delays in the case. Edward Brian Wright, from Block Island, Rhode Island, USA,  is […]

FIRST FOREIGN INVESTORS -NOW THAI VICTIMS COME FORWARD IN ‘TOUCHWOOD’ DEBACLE. Picture: Khao Sod Angry Thais, who were also scammed in the Touchwood agar wood forestry project, have stormed a police station in Bangkok demanding action be taken either by the Thai Police or Department of Special Investigations. Thai investors claimed they had been defrauded […]