Thailand

Feeling rich? Well you could be in for a shock the next time you check your bank balance. Card skimmers are prolific in Thailand and although there have been multiple arrests of foreigners – often Middle Eastern – if you are skimmed and scammed here you may never get your money back.   The courts […]

Here’s another scammer in Thailand. He has a bloodied face and shirt because he has just been confronted by the boyfriend of his latest victim. On the phone he told the angry boyfriend: ‘F off. Faggot. Take the scam like a man’. So I guess Mark, who took this picture after giving him a good […]

 ‘LAWYER’ JAILED IN AUSTRALIA SAYS DOCUMENTS ABOUT HIM ARE FORGED. ‘I CAN GO BACK TO AUSTRALIA ANY TIME!’  Fake Scots lawyer Brian Goudie who was jailed in Australia for stealing over AUS$200,000 from the mining company that employed him told a court on the holiday island of Koh Samui today that records of his conviction […]

BOSS OF TOUCHWOOD FOUND IN PERTH HAS NEW ‘SECRET PRODUCT’ FOR THE GOLD COAST (Pic-At least you don’t have to wait for samosas togrow – like agarwood trees) Investors who put their savings into planting trees through the company TOUCHWOOD and other companies with A similar name should know that the company boss Roscoe Maloney, […]

OLD PALS ACROSS THE SEA? In one of the most unlikely trade negotiations of this year Thailand has been discussing increased trade and co-operation with Fiji – that bastion of Dictator-Prime Minister Commodore Josaia Voreqe ‘call me Frank’ Bainimarama. According to the Thai News Agency:- ‘Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Yukol Limlaemthong said he and his […]

Last night this website topped 250,000 readers in the last month which is worth having a small beer to celebrate. Today it also should top that amount. The counter resets itself each day at 7 am. I think it will settle down at around this level. Good news all around. Although we are about three […]

MUM- EMOTIONAL BUT HAPPY AND RELIEVED The Thai Supreme Court has come down in favour of a 62-year-old mum from Hereford who has been fighting for eight years to have her son’s killer jailed for murder. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office have informed Mrs Yvonne Hart, of Belmont, Hereford, that the Supreme Court has confirmed […]

BUT INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANISATION IS NOT MY FATHER? That Thailand’s fishing industry has been running out of control for years now seems to be very much public knowledge for years now. The industry has also been severely criticised internationally for environmental malpractive, such as bottom dredging. Whether these criticisms will result in any changes remains […]

WHEELS OF JUSTICE GRIND ON- The trial of Pattaya Times publisher Drew Noyes and his common law wife Wanrapa Boonsu for the attempted extortion of the Thonglor Clinic – Jomtien – has been adjourned until November*. (Picture: Dr. Michael Goulet points to Drew Noyes and Wanrapa Boonsu after they were arrested in a ‘sting’) And […]

BRIT DEATHS, HOSPITALISATIONS, UP BY 31% IN THAILAND- It’s that time of year again when the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office issues their annual ‘British Behaviour Abroad Report’. It is of course a misnomer. Sounds like a school report on Brits abroad doesn’t it? I detect a little condescension. It sort of deflects from the […]