PAGE ONE COMMENT: JOURNALISTS BEHIND BARS IN THAILAND
Two fine journalists spent an unnecessary five hours behind bars today after being charged with defaming the Royal Thai Navy. Alan Morison, 66, Australian and Chutima Sidasathian,33, Thai of Phuketwan were held in custody in the cell below the court in Phuket, while court officials sorted out bail. They chose to be treated like any […]
WHO THE F’CK IS JESSIE!
FLYING SPORRAN’S MEDIA WEEK Opening the Bangkok Post today I was intrigued to find a an Op-Ed piece headed ‘Unravelling the political Gordian knot’. It sort of reminded me of one morning picking up a paper in Lagos, Nigeria, and reading a story about a car crash in which nobody was killed with the reporter […]
THE ROHINGYAS – REUTERS AND PHUKETWAN – A FCCT STATEMENT
The professional membership of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand (FCCT) congratulates Thomson Reuters journalists Jason Szep and Andrew R. C. Marshall on a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting on the plight of Rohingya people. The award recognizes a series of articles that are in the best tradition of journalism, and which expose the systematic […]
REUTERS IN ROW OVER ROHINGYA PULITZER PRIZE – STAFF DRINK CHAMPAGNE WHILE RESEARCHERS SURRENDER
REUTERS ‘PLEASE PICK UP YOUR PHONES!’ – SAY JOURNALISTS ‘GOING TO JAIL’- Reuters PR picture – Jason celebrates with champagne Reuter’s news agency was attacked today for celebrating a Pulitzer Prize in champagne while two journalists who provided critical assistance on their story face jail. Reuters journalists Jason Szep and Andrew R.C. Marshall were commended […]
STRIKE BACK! EXPATS FIGHT BACK AGAINST ‘VEXATIOUS LITIGANT’.
FACE OFF WITH OPHTHALMIC OPTICIAN (PIC – Norbert back left Jurgen back right – Suthep Thaugsuban front right Controversial German property developer Norbert Verweyen has been ordered to surrender to Bangkok Criminal Court to pay bail on May 18th as expats, who bought property from him in Koh Samui begin to retaliate for years of […]
FANCY A FLUTTER? DON’T WITH THIS HORSE.
WHY NOT INVEST IN LITIGATION? HERE ARE 10 MILLION REASONS Here’s another investment fund touted to punters in Thailand by our own breed of financial advisors which appears to have gone belly up. Centaur Litigation seems to have mislaid millions – well around US$10 million – and those who will suffer of course are those […]
ALL MEN ARE EQUAL- SOME MISTAKE SURELY
Michael Taylor’s alibi for murdering his Thai girlfriend was that he was on the beach having sex with a ladyboy – But Phuket Police’s excuse for not having him in custody goes one better – ‘We are too busy’. And thus law enforcement in Thailand carries on showing that of course all men are equal […]
THAI WOMAN RESCUED FROM ALBANIA BY WOMAN WHO WAS DEPORTED UNCEREMONIOUSLY FROM SCOTLAND
THAI BRIDE DEPORTED FROM SCOTLAND NOW DEDICATES LIFE TO SAVING OTHERS IN DISTRESS. A Thai bride who was unceremoniously put into custody and then deported from Scotland four years ago after her kilt maker husband told the British Border Agency his marriage no longer ‘subsisted’ has arranged for the escape of Thai woman who was […]
BRITISH JOURNALIST IN TALKS WITH DEPUTY THAI PM OVER ‘VEXATIOUS LITIGANTS’.
British journalist Andrew Drummond who has fought and won eleven out of 12 criminal libel cases brought by a group consisting predominantly of foreigners in Thailand was in talks this week with a Thai cabinet Minister and Deputy Prime Minister. The meeting which took place at the Thailand Cultural Centre covered areas which covered, criminal […]
ANDREW DRUMMOND IS ‘IRREPLACEABLE’ – REPORT
‘IF ANDREW DRUMMOND IS FORCED TO LEAVE THAILAND CROOKS WILL BE FREE AND WITHOUT SCRUTINY’ A report on the website Phuketwan today says British journalist ‘Andrew Drummond is irreplaceable’. And it adds that if he was forced to leave Thailand ‘the crooks will be free to continue their shakedowns and rip-offs, without scrutiny’. The report […]
