‘BUT I WAS AN OFFICER- YER HONOUR – CROSS MY FINGERS AND HOPE TO DIE’
ROYAL NAVY: ‘GOUDIE? HE COULD NOT HAVE ACHIEVED A LOWER RANK IF HE TRIED’. Picture: Goudie glazed eyes after reading anothet Drummond report Brian Gerald James Goldie, known in Thailand as Brian Goudie, has been furiously fighting for his honour against multiple perceived enemies both here and abroad, claiming lies are being spread to ruin […]
A FLUSHING OF TOILETS IN LARD PRAO –
THE WEST AFRICAN CONNECTION – AND AN UNLIKELY JOURNALIST Today we bring you the first short instalment in a new occasional series on crime in Thailand. The Flying Sporran has been with the Narcotics Suppression Division and Immigration Police on raids in Bangkok. In this taster we wake up a hidden community in the capital […]
HOW NOT TO APOLOGISE – A LESSON FROM A PULITZER PRIZE WINNER
HE TAKES PART AND EVEN HOSTS GOOGLE + ‘HANGOUTS’ ON SEX SLAVERY – BUT CAN HE USE GOOGLE? The New York Times’ ‘ace’ journalist #Pulitzer Prize winner Nicholas Kristof is having some serious personal issues having to deal with the resignation of Somaly Mam from the Somaly Mam Foundation in Cambodia. Somaly Mam had to […]
THAI COUP -THE TWO BIG BROTHERS –
While the world’s international press and governments appear to reel in horror and I still get communications asking if I am alright, the biggest affect the military coup in Thailand has had on my life here in Bangkok has actually to been to make me for a short while follow the news exclusively on the […]
THAI BRIDES’ VISA AGENT ON CHILD SEX ABUSE CHARGE – TO DEFEND HIMSELF NEXT MONTH
THREE YEARS ON BRIAN WRIGHT MUST FINALLY TESTIFY The American managing director of US Immigration Law in Bangkok, also known as My Thai Fiancée, in Bangkok, is due to testify in July on a charge of child sexual abuse, after numerous delays in the case. Edward Brian Wright, from Block Island, Rhode Island, USA, is […]
THE TOUCHWOOD SCAM – NOW ANGRY THAIS CHASE DOWN THEIR CASH
FIRST FOREIGN INVESTORS -NOW THAI VICTIMS COME FORWARD IN ‘TOUCHWOOD’ DEBACLE. Picture: Khao Sod Angry Thais, who were also scammed in the Touchwood agar wood forestry project, have stormed a police station in Bangkok demanding action be taken either by the Thai Police or Department of Special Investigations. Thai investors claimed they had been defrauded […]
WHERE ARE THEY NOW? RICHARD HAUGHTON
If you ever wondered where Richard Haughton – the businessman who sold condos at Emerald Palace in Pattaya and then hawked them to the bank – , is then keep checking this site. Currently however he is now promoting himself as managing director of Snowden Holdings and claims to be adept at bank repossessions. #RichardHaughton […]
THAILAND’S MILITARY COUP – THE PROPAGANDA WAR
– FLYING SPORRAN’S WEEKEND DIARY – I have for the last couple of week’s tried to restrict my output on the Thai coup to the airwaves in Australia, the U.S., U.K. and Ireland, This is mainly because I do not want to write a story for the foreign press and find that a sub-editor has […]
BOILER ROOMS ARE WINNING THE GAME
Jordan Belfort is the real ‘Wolf of Wall Street’. By the time the U.S. authorities caught up with him he had taken down ripped off people to the tune of over US$220 million dollars in share trading scams. That he was a dishonest and evil man who spent his takings on the high life, prostitutes […]
THAI COUP EXCLUSIVE – THE MAN THE MILITARY CANNOT GAG!
END OF MARTIAL LAW IN SIGHT AS THE MOST RE-ASSURING, CREDIBLE FRIENDLY AMERICAN ‘LAWYER’ LINES UP MILITARY FOR ‘A SEMINAR’ The Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand unfortunately has had to cancel its evening with Colonel Werachon the Army spokesman tomorrow night – But fear not! A star reporter is on the scene and he is […]
