General News

Hugo Swire, British Minister of State for the Foreign Office, has stated that although Embassy officials had spoken to official of the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Thai Government cannot interfere with the judicial process in Thailand. The question was put by M.P. Kerry McCarthy in relation to the attempted prosecution of human rights […]

(Picture Michael Taylor) BRIT ACCUSED OF MURDER IN THAILAND SAID HE WAS HAVING SEX WITH LADY BOY AT THE TIME.  BUT HE ELOPED ALONE. Mick the Dog was too busy to talk last night. A receptionist at his bar cum guest house in the Philippines said: ‘ He’s right here…(pause phone covered) I don’t think […]

SEX ON THE BEACH – A MOTORBIKE RIDE -THEN HE TOLD HER TO GET THE BUS BECAUSE SHE WOULD NOT LISTEN A Thai bar worked dubbed the ‘Evil Man of Krabi’ has told a criminal court in the southern province that a Dutch model was a willing participant in sex . Chumpol Khaonuang, 33, from […]

THAI  BOAT CAPTAIN ABANDONS DIVERS IN ANDAMAN A young American couple have told an Arizona television channel how they were abandoned in ‘open water’ by a dive boat Captain who motored off to fix a faulty engine. The couple Jake and Lexa Mendenhall from East Valley, Mesa, Arizona, who were celebrating their first anniversary were […]

OK! SO THEY DIDN’T LIKE THE MUSIC! BUT HANG ON HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT THIS LATEST SHARE OFFERING! It used to be one of the trendiest bars in Bangkok, maybe it still is, – but now ‘Q’Bar just off the city’s Sukhumvit Road is coming in for an internet slagging – and being linked to […]

WHICH WITCH HUNT WILL WIN! In the latest episode in the living drama that is the Phnom Penh Paedophile NGO soap opera, it appears NGOs may have been have been grassing each other up as they face just one scandal after another. First there was the SISHA financial scandal. Then came the Somaly Man allegations. […]

Wyn Ellis calls on Attorney General to drop Supreme Court appeal Supachai At an FCCT panel discussion on Thailand’s Criminal Libel law yesterday, Dr Wyn Ellis called on the Attorney General to deny a request from Dusit District Prosecutors to file a Supreme Court appeal against his acquittal on a charge of defamation. Dr Ellis […]

A Thai woman who went missing for ten days has now been found, Police Scotland, said yesterday Mrs Oranuch Waugh,38, from Drylaw, is a witness in a case being brought before the European Court of Human Rights, by the Secretary General of the Federation of Thai and Foreign Spouse Networks, Ms Kanorat Nimsamuth Booth. More […]

Reporters Without Borders has asked the Ministry of Communications and Internet Technology to change its approach to updating the Computer Crime Act of 2007. The law already authorizes the government to arrest journalists and bloggers for political reasons. If a newly proposed amendment were adopted, the government would have even more latitude to muzzle the […]

Fears were last night growing for a Thai mother who has been missing for over eight days in the Scottish capital Edinburgh. Police Scotland have not given any reason why they are concerned about the whereabouts of Oranuch Tawongngern Waugh, 38, from the Thai province of Chaiyaphum, who was last seen in the Albion Road […]