January 2017

OH, AND LEONARDO DI CAPRIO – THE THAI BOILER ROOM BOYS PIN-UP –  IS NOW ROOTING FOR SPURS My, oh my. Leonardo di Caprio seems to be a popular figure down in Pattaya – at least the image of him playing Jordan Belfort in ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ is. First up cropped Leo on the […]

With the alleged assassins of Briton Tony Kenway in Thailand named and on the run Thai police remain cautious about naming the source of the victim’s wealth although, according to the Khao Sod newspaper in Bangkok, they privately admitted he was a ‘boiler room’ scammer. It is now almost certain that 39-year-old Kenway was a […]

Don’t lean against the wall NO URN SO FAR FOR DREW NOYES IN GRECIAN TRAGEDY Runaway fraudster and extortionist Drew Noyes has still failed to sell a tasteless Grecian style knocking shop in Thailand indicating there are no suckers to be had or a slump in Thailand’s twilight tourist industry. From his home at 613 […]

A Briton gunned down in Pattaya early today had a picture on his Facebook page meeting the King of Thailand. If the picture is genuine it begs the question why. And if it is not it could also answer the question of why he was murdered. But what is certain is that Tony Kenway, 39, […]

‘IT’S A STEAL!’ A notorious American confidence trickster is at it again trying to off load former government subsidised housing to tourists to the raunchy Thai resort of Pattaya. Drew Walter Noyes, 61, from Wilmington, North Carolina, is trying to pass off a former National Housing Authority unit in the Keha Condominium.  He claims the […]

CAN THE BBC’S ‘HEART OF GOLD’ SOFTEN THAILAND’S STRONGMAN? Stacey Dooley Versus General Prayuth Chan-Ocha  I have been playing ‘catch-up’ recently viewing television programmes about Thailand aired in the UK while I was away. This is eased by the fact that there are so many channels repeating old progammes – so this weekend I was […]