Thailand
KOH TAO MURDERS – FOREIGNERS CLEARED BY DNA
PRESSURE ON THAI POLICE TO END SPECULATION Two men had sex with Hannah Witheridge on the night she died and the DNA on one matched the DNA found on a cigarette discarded nearby. DNA tests also showed no matches with 12 Burmese so far interviewed and no matches with Christopher Ware,25, a travelling companion of […]
LEAKED REPORT SUGGESTS BOTH HANNAH AND DAVID FOUGHT OFF THEIR ATTACKERS
BUT THAI PRESS FINGER OF ACCUSATION RETURNS TO BRIT – AS TWO ARE STOPPED FROM LEAVING THAILAND. ‘Hannah was gripping blond hair before she died’ – claim (but perhaps not as dramatic as it sounds) Murder victim David Miller likely struggled with his attacker in the sea off the Thai holiday island of Koh Tao […]
THAI POLICE HOLD BURMESE FOR QUESTIONING FOR KOH TAO MURDERS
FRIENDS OF VICTIMS HEAD BACK HOME Consul Michael Hancock arriving on Koh Tao Thai Police investigating the murders of backpackers Hannah Witheridge and David Miller were today holding three Burmese workers on the Thai holiday island of Koh Tao after CCTV footage showed an Asian man prowling near the murder spot. wreaths at a spot […]
POLICE SEEK BRITON IN CONNECTION WITH KOH TAO MURDERS
NAKED COUPLE HARDLY KNEW EACH OTHER. Police in Thailand said tonight they wanted to an interview a British man in connection with the brutal murder of two young backpackers on the Thai holiday island of Koh Tao. As the bodies of David Miller, 24, from Jersey, and Hannah Witheridge, 23, from Norfolk, were stored in […]
‘CAN’T LIVE – IF LIVING IS WITHOUT YOU’ – FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT!
THAT’S JUST THE WAY THE STORY GOES! FLYING SPORRAN’S WEEKEND DIARY I am really touched by the testimonials which have been coming in this week as I ready myself to strive again, or rather waste time and cash, to fight two more flippant but malicious libel and computer act cases this time from a ‘woman […]
DEMOCRACY? HANG ON A SECOND. DON’T YOU WANT FREEDOM OF SPEECH FIRST?
THAILAND’S DEMOCRATIC MYTH – The Bangkok Post is currently running an editorial headed ‘Close Net on the Slave Trade’. The newspaper refers to an investigation by the Guardian newspaper in London into slavery in the fishing industry – where troublesome Burmese labourers have been literally murdered and thrown overboard. The details are horrific. One troublesome […]
STOP MILITARY DETENTIONS – HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH REPORT
ACTIVISTS BEING HELD IN SECRET -CLAIM Human Rights Watch today issued a statement criticising the military for holding on to political activist Kritsuda Khunasen and expressed concern about people being held in secret. The HRW Report follows: Twitter picture (New York, June 11, 2014) – The Thai military authorities should immediately confirm the location of […]
COUP LEADER TO ADDRESS FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS – BRING A TOOTHBRUSH.
Pic: US Marine Corps. Colonel Werachon right This is what I like about some coups in South East Asia. Here you can discuss the merits and demerits of a coup with the spokesman for the army over white wine and canapes. The Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand is hosting an evening this Thursday at 6 […]
DAILY MAIL AND MAIL ON SUNDAY ONLINE BLOCKED FROM THAILAND
It had to happen, but the first foreign online newspaper has now been blocked from Thailand. Not unsurprisingly it is Mailonline – the website of the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, although it could also have been a foreign western newspaper or magazine. A story printed early today was ruled to have broken the […]
THAI MILITARY CONTINUES TO CLAMP DOWN IN THE FACE OF INTERNATIONAL CONDEMNATION
Jeab a journalist lost her job at Mono Broadcast for this pose (Khao Sod) A so far peaceful coup was increasingly looking like it could turn mean in Thailand tonight as military men continued rounding up potential troublemakers throughout the country and dealt harshly with protesters on the streets of Bangkok. Army Commander Prayuth Chan-Ocha […]
