2018

It had to happen. One of my first thoughts when the news broke that 14 boys and their football coach had been lost in a cave near Chiang Rai in northern Thailand was ‘I wonder how many of them are actually Thai’. Now it’s revealed that at least three are not and the Thai Interior […]

  Having been quiet for a couple of weeks taking in the joys of rural England in the rare sunshine I am compelled to comment now on two good television documentaries which I took time out to see. The first was ‘Burma with Simon Reeve’ and the second was Evan Williams’ ‘Myanmar’s Killing Fields’. Both […]

  plus THAI BROTHEL OFFERED FOR SALE IN N.CAROLINA The recent arrest of the three sons of Niels Storm Martens Colov, the former Copenhagen gangster who rose to the dizzy heights of newspaper publisher and chief of the Foreign Tourist Police Volunteers in the seamy Thai resort of Pattaya, unfortunately cannot be taken in any […]

  DISASTER PREVENTION OFFICER IN MAI: ‘ THESE ALLEGATIONS ARE A FRIGGING DISASTER’ SMOG ROLLS IN OVER GOVERNOR (warning this contains images which may be regarded as sacrilegious in Thailand) It seems pilots of the airline Nok Air are having problems finding the runway in the northern town of Mae Hong Son and local citizens […]

MUM ISSUES VIDEO WARNING AFTER HER DAUGHTER IS THREATENED ‘RAPIST’ POSTS ‘DOUBLE BED’ MESSAGE ON SAINT VALENTINE’S DAY.  POLICE INVESTIGATOR USED GOOGLE TO TRANSLATE!     EVIL MAN OF KRABI 2? A young Norwegian, who regularly visited Thailand with her mother to volunteer for a small animal charity, says she fled after being raped by […]

IT’S AS EASY AS ALPHA BETA GAMMA DELTA 莲花别墅项目，凝聚4块开发区，一个您能负担的梦想之家。   尚苑 – 尊尚 – 泳池阁楼 – 莲花别墅度假酒店   TIMEO GRECI ET DON FERENTES As the career of Niels Colov, a former Danish underworld figure turned newspaper publisher and police chief totters in Pattaya, Thailand, across the Gulf in the royal resort of Hua Hin it […]

PRIME MINISTER TO RECEIVE PETITION The House of Commons will discuss the safety of British tourists in Thailand in an adjournment debate set for this Wednesday following a motion made by M.P. Hannah Bardell. This follows a campaign and petition on Change.Org by Reigate mother Pat Harrington whose son was killed in a ‘motorcycle’ on […]

REIGN OF PATTAYA’S CHIEF ‘FOREIGN COP’ AND ‘MEDIA TYCOON’ DRAWS TO AN END With his media empire collapsing about him Niels Colov, the former Copenhagen pimp, who rose to the giddy heights of a newspaper tycoon and chief of the local police foreign volunteersin Pattaya, is making one last desperate bid for survival. With the […]

Every time that I read that migrant workers in Thailand are being prosecuted for stealing their time cards, by a Thai chicken processing company accused of labour abuse I can’t help giggling. (Pause) How is the court going to assess the value of the time cards  -50 satang or the millions the company will have […]

Need a lawyer in Thailand? Here’s where not to look. SOMSAK CHOPAKA Well, you’re now fed up with foreign crooks in Thailand. One has taken you for a couple of million baht and you have had a confrontation with him and he’s not giving it back. So, you have called him a crook online to […]