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 […]
THAI FAST TRACKED JUSTICE FOR TOURISTS JUST ANOTHER MYTH A Danish tourist falsely arrested for allegedly attempting an insurance scam after losing his wallet on a night out was jailed, extorted out of cash, and has only been allowed to leave the country after being acquitted at the end of his six-month ordeal. Nong Plalai […]
He’s been playing with guns and boasting about his senator approved trip to the White House But still the noticeably absent publisher of the now defunct Pattaya Times newspaper Drew Noyes must stand trial for libel according to the Thai Appeal Court. Noyes, who fled to the States, but not before a payment to the […]
Police in Somerset have been in touch with police in Bangkok over the case of Mark Hallett – a British scammer first exposed on this site as one of the new ‘sophisticated berks of Bangkok’. Hallett, 48, skipped the UK while facing 11 fraud charges related to a Ponzi’ investment scheme. His father was a […]
BUT DEFENCE SHY OVER BRINGING THAILAND’S POLICE LABORATORY INTO DISREPUTE A summary of the appeal by the ‘Koh Tao Two’ against conviction and the death sentence for the murders of British tourists Hannah Witheridge and David Miller appears to totally demolish a sloppy prosecution case in the controversial trial in Thailand. The appeal highlights blatant […]
…AS FLIGHT RISK BRIT HOPS IT NO WONDER ’65 PER CENT OF INMATES IN JAIL IN THAILAND ARE INNOCENT’ Subscribers to the numerous Facebook pages calling for justice in Thailand have little to rejoice in as the current military government continues to ignore their pleas – while instead continuing to search out Facebook users who […]
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.