NICE TOILETS FOR THAI STAFF BUT S%$@&HOLES! FOR BURMESE! Fresh after damning reports of Thailand’s murderous treatment of foreign labour in the fishing industry, the human trafficking of Rohingya refugees, and ill treatment of Burmese in the pineapple industry a Swedish watch dog groups have now published a scathing attack on how Thai hoteliers treat […]
WHEN YOU’RE SMILING – THE WHOLE WORLD SMILES WITH YOU! In a remarkable tribute to the failure of Thailand’s ‘fast track’ tourist courts on the Thai holiday island of Koh Samui the trial of two Chinese Americans charged with the vicious attack of Australian Jack Hansen-Bartel in June 2014 has been postponed until the American […]
Flying Sporran’s Diary The Sea Shepherd organisation is reportedly re-embarking on another crusade against the fishing trawler Taishan which earlier this year had Thai officials blinking as its crew reloaded its catch (so its reported) and slipped its moorings while its Captain and crew were allegedly ‘under arrest’. The Sea Shepherd’s Steve Irwin This trawler […]
THAI MILITARY SENSITIVE ABOUT CORRUPTION ALLEGATIONS Thailand’s military government, which is plagued with its own corruption problems having taken power on ant-corruption pledges, is now being accused of detaining the mother of a student leader to stop him demonstrating. Sirawath Seritiwat said he will demonstrate ta Rajabhakti Park tomorrow- the park is a military project […]
– LOVE, COMPASSION, TOLERANCE – ARE WE INCLUDED? An Aussie mother stages a sit in at the Thai Parliament to complain about rampant corruption in Thailand. The victim is her son Jack Hansen-Bartel a former studentsof the New International School in Thailand (NIST) who was savagely beaten in a police controlled party bar in Koh […]
UNBEATABLE BLACK FRIDAY OFFERS FOR FOREIGNERS. CUT PRICE EXTORTION? Sometimes you really have to laugh. Just a day after warrents of arrest were ordered for fake American lawyer Drew Noyes and his Thai sidekick Wanrapa Boonsu, who were sentenced to jail for extortion, up crops Wanrapa again advertising their One-Stop Legal Services in Pattaya, Thailand […]
JUST HOW SHOCKED WERE THE PATTAYA POLICE? Readers of the Bangkok Post and even Khao Sod might have been given the impression that police down in Pattaya were shocked at the activities of Jesper Kongerskov or Hansen or Leon Christiansen as he calls himself now. Danish Jesper, a former Pattaya Volunteer policeman, was charged in […]
DREW NOYES DID NOT CARE WHERE HIS MONEY CAME FROM BUT NEITHER DID THAI OFFICIALS. Serial confidence trickster Drew Walter Noyes and his Thai woman partner Wanrapa Boonsu officially became fugitives from justice today as Pattaya Provincial Court finally issued a warrant for their arrest after they fled on bail. The couple who published the […]
BUT HE HAS ALREADY PAID HIMSELF OUT OF THAILAND Arrest warrants for extortion were issued at Pattaya Court today for the American Drew Walter Noyes and Wanrapa Boonsu who cheated foreigners while running the Pattaya Times and One Stop Legal Service Center in Pattaya. The couple, who dined with judges in Pattaya, had already been sentenced […]
Andrew Drummond is a British independent journalist and occasional television documentary maker. He is a former Fleet Street, London, journalist having worked at the Evening Standard, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, News of the World, Observer and The Times.