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UK CORONER’S APPEAL TO THAILAND FALLS ON DEAF EARS
BUT BRITISH MUMS OF LADS KILLED IN BUS CRASHES IN THAILAND WILL NOT GO AWAY. -TAKE THE PLANE – THEY SAY (Pic Felix Cooper Robinson) Two years after a British Coroner sent a ‘Rule 43’ letter to authorities in Thailand making road safety suggestion in relation to bus travel – not even one acknowledgment has […]
Harlequin Goes Into Receivership
SMART NEW BLUE ISLAND HOPPER FOR SALE? Well as I have been following the Harlequin saga, particularly with regards to the projects it initiated in Pattaya – later taken over by Briton Richard Haughton, former President of the Pattaya-Jomtien Rotary Club – I should at least record here that Harlequin Property & Hotels has now […]
BRITISH MOTHERS PROTEST THAI ROAD SAFETY-
CORONERS IN UK TOLD FOREIGN OFFICE OFFICIALS THEY MUST GIVE STRONGER WARNINGS TO TOURISTS- A British mother who lost her 19-year-old son in one of Thailand’s numerous coach crashes is flying out to ensure justice for her child who was due to study economic at Manchester University. Rachel Cooper, from Brighton, East Sussex, will attend […]
“All You Can Do is Pray to Save your Lives”-
GENTLE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE V UGLY OGRES? WHAT NEXT? (Picture-Ye Myint Aung – handsome?) If, like me, you believe that sheer greed is causing western countries to throw money into Burma and that perhaps they should hang on to establish the smoke and mirrors of this beleaguered country first – then perhaps you might want to […]
ORGANISED CRIME FROM SOUTH EAST ASIA AND CHINA – A GLOBAL THREAT – UNODC.
Organised criminal activities in East Asia and the Pacific could not only destabalise vulnerable societies but also create world health and environmental problems, according to a United Nations report out today. A variety of mafia organisations, often working with authorities, are grossing an estimated US$90 billion a year equal to twice the GDP of Burma, […]
‘AN ATTEMPT TO STIFLE SERIOUS REPORTING OF LABOUR ABUSES IN THAILAND’
-A CHILLING AFFECT!- “Prosecution strikes at the very core of efforts by human rights defenders to end pervasive abuses of workers !in Thailand’s export industry.” (PIC:Andy Hall with Aung San Suu Kyi. Last year he took her on an unofficial trip to see Burmese workers in Mahachai on the Gulf of Thailand outside Bangkok.) In […]
Finnwatch throws down the gauntlet at Natural Foods – Thailand
POOR WORKING CONDITIONS, UNLAWFULLY LOW WAGES, CONFISCATION OF OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS, USE OF CHILD LABOUR, EXCESSIVE OVERTIME – CLAIMS* The following statement is issued by Finnwatch, a Finnish non-profit organisation (www.finnwatch.org), with regard to Briton Mr Andy Hall’s court hearing brought by Natural Fruit Company in Thailand at Bangkok South Criminal Court today, April Fool’s Day, […]
WE COULD MURDER FOR A PRAWN!
-International campaign against Thailand’s seafood industry sizzles as – MAN THROWS HIMSELF INTO GULF OF THAILAND FOR STORY- Flying Sporran’s Weekend Diary Thailand’s fishing industry, particularly in the area of prawn cultivation took another massive knock today with an article on Mail Online, which boasts 105 million unique visitors a month, taking a massive swipe. […]
PINEAPPLE EATING FINNS MAY HAVE CAUSED AN ASIAN STORM
-PINA COLADA SALES PLUMMET IN HELSINKI!- Flying Sporran’s Weekend Diary- Actually I had never heard of Finnwatch before but I have always advocated an organisation which could watch Finns. But it now seems this organization, together with the Finns, or some of them up there in the frozen tundra, who have a liking for pineapple […]
EXCLUSIVE – ‘EVIL MAN FROM KRABI’ HAD BEEN CONVICTED OF MURDER-
COVER UP! POLICE MUST HAVE KNOWN – BUT STILL THEY TRIED TO DISCREDIT FOREIGN VICTIM- The 32-year-old Southern Thai man accused of the rape of a 19-year-old Dutch model after her birthday party in a Thai beach resort last year had previously been convicted and jailed for MURDER! Chumpol Khaonuang, (left) from Koh Phangan, Southern […]
