A GLIMMER OF HOPE F0R VICTIMS PROPERTY FRAUD IN THAILAND
BUT DON’T CRACK OPEN THE CHAMPAGNE – WANNA BUY A HOTEL IN PATTAYA? A hotel in Pattaya which is already mortgaged to a bank has now joined the list of properties offered and sold to foreigners. The Ahmedabad Mirror in India is reporting that Indian travel agent Bhargav Verma, has lodged a case of fraud […]
ANOTHER BRIT DEATH ON THAI ISLAND OF KOH TAO
Another Brit ‘living the life’ ends it in controversial Thai tourist destination. Another Briton has been found dead on the Thai holiday island of Koh Tao and has been named as Luke Miller of Newport, Isle of Wight. Miller is reported to have died yesterday after jumping into the pool attached to the Sunset bar […]
ANTI-CORRUPTION WHITEWASH IN THAILAND IS ADDING ‘INSULT TO INJURY’ – Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Wast has condemned Thailand’s Anti-Corruption Commission for dismissing a malfeasance case against former government officials for their role in the orders to shoot at demonstrators during the 2010 crackdown on the ‘Red Shirts’. And HRW has accused the current government of ‘airbrushing’ Thai history. As pretty much all of Thai history is airbrushed […]
TWENTY FIVE YEARS OF MURDER IN THAILAND PART I
THAILAND’S MURDER HISTORY FROM A BRITISH FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT’S VIEW INTRODUCTION: Following the controversial death sentences on the young Burmese men Wai Phyo and Zaw Lin in Koh Samui for the murders last year on Koh Tao of Hannah Witheridge and Davild Miller, I have been asked to detail the controversial cases where flagrant breaches of […]
“WE WILL CATCH THE CYBER MEN” say Thai Police under attack for Koh Tao murder investigation
“It’s no problem. Thai Police are excellent’ “No they could not find a murderer in the same room” – says wife of victim in unsolved murder. “We have killed J(T)awad” announcement on SMS – two hours after murder but before police were called”. ONLY IN THAILAND The technical know-how of the Royal Thai Police subject […]
KOH TAO VERDICT BRINGS OUT VICTIMS OF THAI JUSTICE
SOME OLD WOUNDS, SOME NEW ONES, COME TO THE FORE AS CONTROVERSIAL MURDER TRIAL ROW CONTINUES As the row over the conviction and death sentences of two young Burmese for the murders of Britons Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on the Thai cisland of Koh Tao continued to boil – it has become apparent that […]
THE KOH TAO MURDERS – IF THE VERDICT WAS WRONG TIME WILL NOT TELL
By the six o’clock BBC evening news in London yesterday the mews that Wai Phyo and Zaw Lin had been found guilty and sentenced to death was well down the agenda, coming after a car crash with one fatality, floods in Cumbria and a bus crash with no fatalities. Any doubt about the prosecution of […]
SCAM WARNING! HOLIDAY INSURANCE IN THAILAND. WHO NEEDS IT?
BECAUSE YOU ARE THAILAND?* Sorry to be an old misery so close to Christmas but I need to put out a warning on a current ‘Thai insurance scam’ as the country is entering into peak tourist season. The headline is not intended to mislead. Everyone should get health and accident insurance. That’s a given. But […]
HAPPY CHRISTMAS ONE AND ALL!
Aha. I never thought I would be one for those cheesy family Christmas cards but there I was in Tesco’s in Kingston Bagpuize when I heard this high octave ‘Ho! Ho! Ho! and ‘Have your picture taken with Santa for three quid!’ Seemed like a good deal to me. The Santa was actually a woman […]
THAI JUSTICE ON TRIAL AGAIN AS BURMESE AWAIT THEIR FATE IN ‘PARADISE’
With just two days to go before the court in Koh Samui, Thailand, returns a verdict on the two young Burmese accused of the murders of David Miller and Hannah Witheridge on Koh Tao the defence pro-bono lawyers, appointed by the Lawyers Council of Thailand, and the Migrant Workers Rights Network have put out a […]
