THIS WOMAN LOOKS LIKE SHE DOES The great thing about Thailand is the consistency.  There isn’t any. So people who were surprised by the arrest of Canadian-Hong Kong journalist Anthony Kwan for carrying a helmet and flak jacket will of course not be surprised by this picture of a woman jokingly taking an axe to […]

BUTT KICK  MAN PROVIDES THAI LINK TO GRAB AT SAVINGS OF BRITISH PENSIONERS Toby Ledger appears to know a lot about exercising the muscles of his posterior ……….but jack sh*t about what to do with your savings. British government legislation enacted earlier this year to allow citizens to take money out of their pensions and […]

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH CONDEMNS NON PROSECUTION OF THAI ARMY TORTURERS The Thai military tortured to death a man in the troubled south and the Supreme Administrative Court accepted the facts awarding the man’s family US$28,000 compensation, It took eight years to get compensation but although the Internal Operations Security Command will have to pay out […]

NO BODY ARMOUR? NO TRIP TO BANGKOK Alastair-Leathead Thailand’s military government has arrested and charged a journalist for carrying body armour and a helmet at Suvarnabhnumi international airport. In the farcical incident the Hong Kong journalist Anthony Kwan has been charged under the 1987 Arms Control Act., which prohibits the possession of military equipment without […]

‘CHANCES OF FAIR TRIAL LOOKING GRIM’ The decision today to indict British migrant work Andy Hall in Thailand on criminal libel and computer crimes charges under laws which do not exist in any other country and are designed to protect the status quo of the rich and privileged has been described today as a blow […]

WORKERS RIGHTS ACTIVIST TAKES HIS PLACE IN THE QUEUE OF THE LOST FACE Following its time immemorial tradition of denial Thailand will decide tomorrow whether workers’ right activist Andy Hall should be formally indicted on computer crimes and criminal defamation charges for exposing what has been traditionally been the norm – the abuse of migrant […]

BUT WIFE SAYS CONVICTED EXTORTIONIST WILL RETURN TO FACE HIS JUDGES Drew Noyes, 60, the fake American lawyer and professional con man who published the Pattaya Times newspaper in Thailand, has failed to turn up at Pattaya Court to surrender his passport having oddly been given bail after being convicted and jailed for two years […]

FORMER BROTHEL BOSS CLEARED OF RACKETEERING IN THAILAND David John Hanks, 67,  former owner of a brothel in the suburbs of Melbourne, has been acquitted by the criminal court in Pattaya of racketeering and working in Thailand without a permit. In cases brought by Thailand’s Department of Special Investigations against Hanks and a Russian national […]

WE HELP SOME VICTIMS IN THAILAND BUT AS THIS WAS FOREIGNERS CONNING FOREIGNERS LOCAL PROMISES WERE EMPTY. Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority has banned one of the main distributors of Harlequin Property, which sold dodgy deals on Thailand’s eastern seaboard to pensioners, and fined him £169,500. Robert Shaw was a director of TailorMade Independent, based in […]

NOW WHERE TO FROM HERE? Britain’s Daily Telegraph today reports on the scandal of foreign based independent financial advisors selling duff products and also dodgy funds recommended by major financial institutions. Financial writer Katie Morley highlights the smarmy IFA’s and also the offshore arms of major British financial institutions, which also reap major benefits from […]