Thailand

‘OH GOD, TAKE US AWAY FROM THIS COUNTRY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE’ A BBC journalist has blagged his way into the Immigration Detention Centre in Bangkok to broadcast a scathing report on Thailand which he says welcomes tourists but refuses to help anyone seeking refuge. The report by Producer-reporter Chris Rogers was broadcast yestersay and […]

UNFORTUNATELY HE’S KEEPING IT TO HIMSELF! I’m confused. I have just seen an unbeatable offer on the net – and I need advice.  The New Nordic Company – ‘live next to a Thai Princess’ – is offering old aged pensioners a 10 per cent a year return on their property investments with it in Pattaya, […]

He has been sentenced to three years in jail for cheating a 78-year-old lady out of nearly US$300,000, which including posing as a lawyer to pocket the bail money for her son who went on to die in jail without treatment for a heart problem. He got bail while claiming he needed freedom to care […]

CHINESE AGENTS WORK WITH IMPUNITY IN THAILAND – SAY DISSIDENTS. While Thailand maintains it is friendly with the west and the United States remains Thailand’s number one ally there are now the obvious indications that the country has hopped into bed with China in more than one way. Spy or Janitor? – Coldface First of […]

SO FAR THAI POLICE HAVE SUGGESTED THEY MIGHT SUE INTERNET POSTERS.  BUT THE EMPTY THREATS HAVE NOT STOPPED ALLEGATIONS COMING FAST AND FURIOUS Nichola, Luke, James – FB Luke’s Legacy Holiday friends of Luke Miller whose body was found in the pool of the Sunset Bar on the Thai island of Koh Tao earlier this […]

CAUGHT BANG TO RIGHTS – BUT WAIT -THIS IS THE THAI JUDICIAL SYSTEM BBC South East Asia Correspondent Jonathan Head and two foreigners, who were massively being defrauded in Thailand, are being sued by one of Thailand’s infamous bent lawyers for libel under Thailand’s Computer Crime Act.                 […]

Human Rights Wast has condemned Thailand’s Anti-Corruption Commission for dismissing a malfeasance case against former government officials for their role in the orders to shoot at demonstrators during the 2010 crackdown on the ‘Red Shirts’. And HRW has accused the current government of ‘airbrushing’ Thai history. As pretty much all of Thai history is airbrushed […]

THAILAND’S MURDER HISTORY FROM A BRITISH FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT’S VIEW INTRODUCTION: Following the controversial death sentences on the young Burmese men Wai Phyo and Zaw Lin in Koh Samui for the murders last year on Koh Tao of Hannah Witheridge and Davild Miller, I have been asked to detail the controversial cases where flagrant breaches of […]

BECAUSE YOU ARE THAILAND?* Sorry to be an old misery so close to Christmas but I need to put out a warning on a current ‘Thai insurance scam’ as the country is entering into peak tourist season. The headline is not intended to mislead. Everyone should get health and accident insurance. That’s a given. But […]

FAMOUS FRAUDSTER RAGES AS FORMER SCHOOL PAL MOVES IN WITH HIS WIFE Convicted fraudster Drew Noyes who fled Thailand with some of his children while on bail has announced yet again that he will return – this time he says ‘to claim what’s rightfully mine’. On his Facebook site which he heads ‘My life is […]