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British Piano Teacher Murdered Killer Carried Out Hill Tribe
Other versions of this story by same authorLink to Daily Telegraph – Briton murdered in tribal ritual in ThailandLink to Daily Mail – British Music Teacher murdered by killer who used hilltribe ritual to escapeLink to The SUN – British music teacherLink to Guardian – British teacher murdered in ThailandLink to Evening Standard – Expat […]
Survivors Of British Force 136 Found In Burmese Jungle
From Andrew Drummond,Bangkok, January 17 2009A relief group operating clandestinely in Burma have discovered the whereabouts of what are believed to be the last two survivors of the British led Force 136 which fought behind Japanese lines in the Second World War.A patrol of the Free Burma Rangers found one of the men within a […]
The BBC And The Gulf Of Tonkin
This is a blog only Is Burma softening its stance? The BBC is currently posing this question on its website in a fairly lengthy piece by my Bangkok colleague Alistair Leathead.The article quotes Derek Tonkin, former British Ambassador to Bangkok turned Burma watcher as saying: ‘Given the impasse of the last 20 years, what has […]
Nightclub Inferno – Club Owners Had Licence To Sell Noodles
The owners of an upmarket nightclub in Bangkok where scores of people died in a horrific New Year party blaze did not have the correct permits to operate but were allowed to open for business anyway by Thai police, it was claimed today.Deputy Police Commissioner General Jongrak Juthanon of the Royal Thai Police claimed the […]
Saved By The Hand Of An Angel – Bangkok Nightclub Fire
A British survivor of the New Year fire horror in a Bangkok club told tonight how he was saved from death by the hand of an angel. Alex Wargacki, 29, told how he collapsed and fell unconscious, as fire raged threw the Santika nightclub in Bangkok, taking the lives of 60 people, and injuring over […]
Nightclub Inferno – Club Owners Had Licence To Sell Noodles
The owners of an upmarket nightclub in Bangkok where scores of people died in a horrific New Year party blaze did not have the correct permits to operate but were allowed to open for business anyway by Thai police, it was claimed today. Deputy Police Commissioner General Jongrak Juthanon of the Royal Thai Police claimed […]
Jingle Bells Unheard In Thailand Until Santa Shops Child Abuser
The widespread abuses committed by Canadian John Wrenshall are so mind boggling it comes as no surprise this time that the U.S. authorities chose to arrest him somewhere from which he could easily be deported for trial.He was shopped by a part-time Santa Claus, but nobody in Thailand noticed the warning bells ringing about Wrenshaw, […]
Old Etonian Takes Thailand On A Ticket Of Ethics & Principals
A former Eton scholar and Oxford University graduate was today elected Prime Minister of Thailand by a slim majority of 37 votes.MPs elected Abhisit Vejjajiva, leader of the country’s Democratic Party, putting an end to rule, by telephone, of ousted Premier Thaksin Shinawatra, and the successive governments he attempted to control in his exile.His opponent […]
CEOP's Thai Coup – Now You See Them
CEOP’s ‘Operation Naga’ provides hope for solving Thailand’s paedophile problem The raids this week by the Women and Children’s department of the Royal Thai Police together with officers of Britain’s Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre have given some hope to those who are bored with repeatedly seeing child sex abusers getting off scot free […]
Weary Stranded Brits Join BA's First Flight Home.
Some 200 weary Britons set off from Bangkok today to board the first British Airways rescue flight from Thailand.Ahead of them they face a gruelling 33 hours journey back to London after being stranded in Thailand during the siege of the airports by anti-government demonstrators.And as the the Britons and others left the country’s emptying […]
