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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
– 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
With three young Thai women giving evidence at the weekend the prosecution is expected to close its case against Sean Tinsley, 45, for the attempted murder of Adam Pickles, former head of English at the International School of the Regents, on Thailand’s eastern seaboard on June 10th. Tinsley appears to have revised his witness list […]
Pic: US Marine Corps. Colonel Werachon right This is what I like about some coups in South East Asia. Here you can discuss the merits and demerits of a coup with the spokesman for the army over white wine and canapes. The Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand is hosting an evening this Thursday at 6 […]
It had to happen, but the first foreign online newspaper has now been blocked from Thailand. Not unsurprisingly it is Mailonline – the website of the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, although it could also have been a foreign western newspaper or magazine. A story printed early today was ruled to have broken the […]
TWO FAKE LAWYERS AND AN ACCUSED RACKETEER TO TAKE INTERNET GIANT TO COURT IN THAILAND IN ‘DAVID AND GOLIATH’ CASE WE’RE BEING HOUNDED! – THEY SAY. Thailand’s most famous ‘fake lawyer’ Brian Goudie, a former jail bird also known as Brian Goldie has announced he is suing Google Inc. and Google Thailand in what he […]
Andrew Drummond is a British independent journalist and occasional television documentary maker. He is a former Fleet Street, London, journalist having worked at the Evening Standard, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, News of the World, Observer and The Times.