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The following statement has been issued by the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand in relation to the journalists who met up with members of the TNLA (Ta’ang National Liberation Army) in Myanmar (Burma) and who have disappeared after being seized by the Burmese military. The professional membership of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand (FCCT) […]

BUT THIS CASE CANNOT BE SETTLED ‘FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL’  The Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand have issued a statement in support of BBC correspondent Jonathan Head, a former President, who faces jail together with a Briton Ian Rance, one of many people defrauded out of properties on the Thai island of Phuket. The […]

‘Reporters without Borders today publishes a scathing attack by Thailand’s military leader Prayuth Chan-Ocha whom the report describes as an ‘eccentric megalomaniac’.  Led by Gen. Prayuth Chan-o-cha, the Thai junta has been persecuting the media for the past 18 months, imposing a reign of terror that has included interrogations, arbitrary arrests, a spate of prosecutions […]

NOT A LOT IT SEEMS Three programmes have crashed over the last month at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand – or rather they have been cancelled at the orders of the current Thai military government. The latest a few hours ago was to have been a presentation by Human Rights Watch on the ill-treatment […]

FOREIGN JOURNALISTS UNDER ATTACK IN THAILAND- ARMY SAYS THEY COULD CAUSE INSTABILITY BUT ARMY LINKS TO INTERNATIONAL CRIME STAY STRONG Threat to seal off Maneeya Centre The Thai Military Government, which claims it is waging war on corruption in the country, appears to have created a smokescreen to cover its own illegal and definitely corrupt […]

The Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand has been ordered by the government not to allow its premises to be used for a presentation by human rights lawyers tonight. A short statement issued from the club stated: “The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand regrets to announce that the scheduled event for tonight, the launch of the […]

A British journalist who claims he is being sued by a convicted criminal, a former pimp, and a man accused by the American press of share and property fraud, and sexual harassment said tonight that he would be revealing the ‘dark side’ of foreign crime in Thailand at a press conference tomorrow (Thursday). British journalist […]

This Thursday July 24th at 2.30 pm we will be holding a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand at the penthouse in Maneeya Centre, in Chitlom, Bangkok. We will be showing the video ‘Influential People and Men in Suits’ to the Thai press and having obtained a preview copy of ‘Serial Swindlers […]

The professional membership of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand (FCCT) congratulates Thomson Reuters journalists Jason Szep and Andrew R. C. Marshall on a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting on the plight of Rohingya people.  The award recognizes a series of articles that are in the best tradition of journalism, and which expose the systematic […]

An occasion I will be missing tonight is a seminar at the Foreign Correspondents of Thailand by the De Vere Group. The notice of the meeting says ‘suggested payment 200 baht to charity’. A better one would read perhaps 200 baht to journalists! The all charitable De Vere group has been involved in massive internet […]