INVESTOR ALERT – REGISTERED OR NOT DON’T GO WITH THAI BASED FINANCIAL ADVISERS Malada –  an artists impression The Thai Securities Exchange Commission has put up on its website investor alerts naming a number of foreign financial advisory firms which have not been registered in Thailand. They include several exposed on this site. A reader […]

PATTAYA COURT ACCEPTS CASE AGAINST A BRAZILIAN BASED BRIT OILMAN BY SENDING SUMMONS TO HOTEL – IN THAILAND Two weeks ago we posed the question asking whether Koh Samui court could be the worst court in Thailand.  Well naturally we thought there might be a few other contenders for that title – and sure enough […]

CAUGHT TRYING TO GET FILES BACK FROM LAWYER – VARD IS CARTED OFF BY POLICE. The controversy over Jessie Vard, the young Irish girl who has been exposing Thai corruption on the internet after her dad was robbed of seven houses in Phuket, came to blows yesterday in a lawyer’s office in Bangkok. Former Dublin […]

Flying Sporran’s Weekend Diary Computers -yes, just . But it was easier to pick up the phone and reverse the charges to London  talk down the phone and let somebody else do the editing. Wow. Today I was watching Lionel Richie perform at Glastonbury which would take me an hour and a half to reach […]

NOT A LOT IT SEEMS Three programmes have crashed over the last month at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand – or rather they have been cancelled at the orders of the current Thai military government. The latest a few hours ago was to have been a presentation by Human Rights Watch on the ill-treatment […]

THAILAND’S POSSIBLY MOST DECORATED FOREIGNER TAKES NEW THAI BRIDE UP THE AISLE (Flying Sporran’s Midweek Social Diary) Wow! When it rains it pours. Having just congratulated Colin de Jong on being tracked down in Pattaya by the daughter he was parted from many years ago – it seems I have to congratulate Niels Colov, the […]

HIGH NOON IN HUA HIN AS DUTCHMAN ORDERED TO HAND OVER PROPERTY DEEDS Confrontation at Avalon-Khao Noi The Thai military have moved in on Dutchman Dingeman Hendrikse, known as Dinky, who has been terrorizing elderly home buyers in the resort of Hua Hun, 100 miles south of Bangkok for over ten years. Hendrikse’s activities were […]

ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE There appears to be a growing protest on the internet at the hosting of a conference for ‘One Young World’ in Bangkok later this year. One Young World of course is a group of youngsters or youth ambassadors who hopefully are going to put the world to rights. ‘Let’s change […]

SOMETIMES YOU JUST HAVE TO TAKE A BREAK I had a complaint last week from a reader who said that stories here were not coming fast and furious enough. He suggested I was getting lazy and urged me to get on to the case. He is from the north of England and seemingly does not […]

THAI BANKS COLLUDING IN SCAMS ON FOREIGNERS Ian Rance and family A British businessman who lost everything to organized crime on the holiday island of Phuket is joining the protest of foreigners who have been taken to the cleaners in Thailand. Ian Rance, 57, from Hertfordshire, lost everything in a scam identical to that of […]