FACT, RUMOUR OR JUST SPECULATION? With reports today from a pilot colleague alleging thar Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah was ‘probably in no state to fly’ because his life was crumbling due to marital problems  – more and more pressure is being put on the Malaysian Government for straightforward answers. The latest report comes from a […]

Pic: ‘Booked already?’ – A prison cell? Fake lawyer Brian Goudie will star in the sixth programme in a 13 part crime series called ‘Serial Swindlers’ produced by Make Productions for worldwide syndication. Goudie, currently on trial for fraud and embezzlement with a 7.9 million civil judgment against him, is renowned in Thailand for his […]

ASIA AND RESPONSIBILITY? The handling of the case of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 says a lot about the differences between East and West – but right now as the search goes on in the South Indian Ocean I can’t help but feel that the Malaysians are in a state of thinking ‘What did we do […]

THEN JUST SIT BACK AND COLLECT! First there was GeekUniversity, then came twa.lk and tw.alk2. Now it’s JP Digitel Tech. They are all the brainchild of a young Aussie called Shaun Stenning.   All the projects looked plausible and there were the usual money back offers if customers did not make money within a certain […]

NO MORE BS EXPECTED – BUT AUSSIE’S REMAIN CAUTIOUS. RAAF and RNZAF Orion aircraft were today rushing to a location 2,500 km south west of Perth where items which may be debris connected to flight MH370 have been seen floating in the sea. Also due on location was a United States Air Force Poseidon aircraft. […]

Just to re-assure readers again that money does not grow on trees, here’s an update on the Cambodian jatropha tree fiasco. One man is in jail in Phnom Penh – that’s Greg Fryett from Torquay,  and four others from the Sustainable Growth Company or Sustainable Agro-Energy have been arrested by the Serious Fraud Office in […]

PATTAYA TIMES WAS ‘A TISSUE OF LIES’, Drew Walter Noyes, the former publisher of the Pattaya Times newspaper, and his wife Wanrapa Bonsu, listed as the Editor, were ordered to surrender to bail at Bangkok Criminal Court yesterday on charges of criminal libel and libel against the Computer Crime Act. British journalist Andrew Drummond is […]

The BBC motoring programme ‘Top Gear’ – in reality a boys behaving badly with lots of expensive toys showcase – has come in for a drubbing from the British press for using the term ‘slope’ during the first of two specials filmed in Burma. As a man walks towards them on a wooden bridge of […]

‘OUR CEO WENT TROPPO!’ BUSINESS NEWS: The international iron, steel, and aggregates conglomerate SCP Mining and Metals, is to close down all operations in South East Asia. All assets are to be liquidated but job losses will be kept to a minimum, a company spokesman said today. The UK company, which boasted offices in Piccadilly, […]

‘A POLITICAL FANATIC’ – BUT ALSO ‘FANATICAL ABOUT HIS JOB, HIS FLIGHT  SIMULATOR AND HIS D.I.Y. VIDEOS’ Leaders of the opposition Pakatan Rakyat Party in Malaysia have dismissed a report in the Mail on Sunday that the Captain of Malaysian Airlines MH370 was a ‘political fanatic’ and that this may have something to do with […]