July 2016

Police in Thailand have demonstrated the unique sign language which has enabled them to keep a lid on crime. It was revealed in a demonstration by Lt. General Sanit Mahatavorn to vocational students in Bangkok earlier this week. From ‘Khao Sod’  ‘Make money – not arrests#. The new signs are not intended to actually stop […]

A FEW GOOD WOMEN Naritsarawan Kaewnopparat Thailand’s military is not traditionally good at handling the truth but then it does not need to be.  The military were never punished for the Tak Bai massacre* or for the massacre at Krue Se Mosque*. The army of course is used more against the people rather than an […]

ABUSE A CHILD? MURDER A PROSTITUTE – NO PROBLEM JUST PAY HERE! The continuing scandals of the Thai police and courts – the Thai Justice system – and the unwritten policy of ‘cash for justice’  – have this week been hitting the press in Ireland – where a psychotic killer, who was released for cash […]

  SEX TOURIST CAUGHT ‘IN FLAGRANTE’ TWICE CONDEMNS ‘POLICE RAIDS’   While the Thai-Visa forum recovers from the statement by blue blooded Thai Tourism Minister Kobkarn Wattanavrankgkul, who told Reuters ‘We want the sex industry gone’, sex tourists can be re-assured that the vibrant sex industry is not yet on the way out. Tourism in […]

 BUT DAVID AMES FLEES BY BOAT A warrant of arrest has been issued in St Vincent and the Grenadines in the Caribbean for Briton David Ames the boss of Harlequin Property, who, together with fellow Brit Richard Haughton, swindled hundreds of people who had invested in properties on Thailand’s eastern seaboard. Ames, the subject of […]

Thailand’s military dictator General Prayuth Chan-Ocha who has jailed many dissenters and is now making undisguised and widespread threats to jail more – has firmly targeted journalists in a bid to push through a new constitution which will drag the country back 100 years. The latest arrest of the Prachatai journalist is a case in […]

IN TRUE STYLE THAI CRACKDOWN ON FOREIGNERS NETS VICTIM OF FOREIGN FRAUDSTER THEY LET GO! Following the military take-over of the country’s premier sex resort city of Pattaya a report to ‘Military Circle 14’ has  resulted in the announcement of the arrest of hapless Brit Andy Ronald Mathews for insulting Thais. Mathews is a victim […]

ACCOUNT ON FINANCIAL SCAMMERS IN PHNOM PENH INFURIATES AS EXPATS IN RANGOON ARE NOW TARGETTED. ‘Cornettos, very young schoolgirls, a secret pad – and a journo’ Independent financial advisers, feeling the heat in Bangkok, have been stepping up their efforts to find customers in Myanmar paying flying visits to offer unbeatable deals to expats wondering […]

The executive director of Finnwatch, the consumer group which produced a critical report on the Thai fruit canning company ‘Natural Fruit’ citing its treatment of migrant Burmese labour is to fly in from Helsinki to Thailand to the trial of British team member Andy Hall. In the long running farce in which Natural Fruit has […]

CASE FOR YOUNG BURMESE HIT BY FACTIONALISM The defence team in the Koh Tao murder case has denied what it describes as damaging claims made in a story on the Thai Visa forum in Thailand – sourced from the Samui Times website. Lawyers for the young Burmese men Wai Phyo and Zaw Lin have issued […]