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Saved By The Hand Of An Angel – Bangkok Nightclub Fire

A British survivor of the New Year fire horror in a Bangkok club told tonight how he was saved from death by the hand of an angel. Alex Wargacki, 29, told how he collapsed and fell unconscious, as fire raged threw the Santika nightclub in Bangkok, taking the lives of 60 people, and injuring over […]

Nightclub Inferno – Club Owners Had Licence To Sell Noodles

The owners of an upmarket nightclub in Bangkok where scores of people died in a horrific New Year party blaze did not have the correct permits to operate but were allowed to open for business anyway by Thai police, it was claimed today.Deputy Police Commissioner General Jongrak Juthanon of the Royal Thai Police claimed the […]

Jingle Bells Unheard In Thailand Until Santa Shops Child Abuser

The widespread abuses committed by Canadian John Wrenshall are so mind boggling it comes as no surprise this time that the U.S. authorities chose to arrest him somewhere from which he could easily be deported for trial.He was shopped by a part-time Santa Claus, but nobody in Thailand noticed the warning bells ringing about Wrenshaw, […]

Old Etonian Takes Thailand On A Ticket Of Ethics & Principals

A former Eton scholar and Oxford University graduate was today elected Prime Minister of Thailand by a slim majority of 37 votes.MPs elected Abhisit Vejjajiva, leader of the country’s Democratic Party, putting an end to rule, by telephone, of ousted Premier Thaksin Shinawatra, and the successive governments he attempted to control in his exile.His opponent […]

CEOP's Thai Coup – Now You See Them

CEOP’s ‘Operation Naga’ provides hope for solving Thailand’s paedophile problem The raids this week by the Women and Children’s department of the Royal Thai Police together with officers of Britain’s Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre have given some hope to those who are bored with repeatedly seeing child sex abusers getting off scot free […]

Weary Stranded Brits Join BA's First Flight Home.

Some 200 weary Britons set off from Bangkok today to board the first British Airways rescue flight from Thailand.Ahead of them they face a gruelling 33 hours journey back to London after being stranded in Thailand during the siege of the airports by anti-government demonstrators.And as the the Britons and others left the country’s emptying […]

Thai Rescue For Stranded Tourists – Except For Furious Brits

  The airlift of passengers trapped in the Far East took off  in earnest last night as airlines came to the rescue of most nationalities – except for thousands of desperate Britons. SAS had three flights for Scandinavians from Phuket, KLM came to the rescue of the Dutch. Air France provided a flight for the French. Jet […]

Thai Premier Will Not Resign – Scene Set For Bangkok Showdown

Thai Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat tonight refused to step down saying ‘I have done nothing wrong’  and left it to police to deal with the yellow shirted protesters who have seized the  country’s international airport.Shortly after his return to Thailand from Peru to be greeted by red-shirted pro-government supporters in the northern capital of Chiang […]

Thai Police Shooting Case Abandoned. Policeman Freed

Shock as Thai policeman who gunned down Canadians in Thailand is released and case halted. The Thai policeman who gunned down two Canadian tourists in the Northern Thai village of Pai in January this year has been released without charge by a court in Bangkok.And the case against the police sergeant who killed Leo Del Pinto, […]

Thai Police Shooting Case Abandoned. Policeman Freed

From Andrew Drummond, Bangkok November 22 2008 Shock as Thai policeman who gunned down Canadians in Thailand is released and case halted. The Thai policeman who gunned down two Canadian tourists in the Northern Thai village of Pai in January this year has been released without charge by a court in Bangkok.And the case against the police sergeant […]