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A BBC CORRESPONDENT FACES FIVE YEARS FOR EXPOSING PROPERTY FRAUD IN THAILAND.  OTHERS WHO ARE RIPPED OFF FACE THE SAME FOR WHISTLE BLOWING BUT FOR THE BBC AND OTHER LIFESTYLE PROGRAMME MAKERS  ITS ‘BUSINESS AS USUAL’ AS ‘HOUSE HUNTERS’ ARE LINED UP BY TELEVISION PROGRAMMES OFFERING THEM DREAM HOMES IN PARADISE. BUT THEY DON’T GET […]

The BBC is to support its south-east Asia correspondent Jonathan Head in a battle involving Thailand’s fraudulent property market after a court in Phuket accepted a case of slander under the country’s Computer Crime Act against him. Jonathan Head confronting Thai lawyer  Pratuan Thanarak in Phuket   Jonathan Head said today: “We will fight the […]

For some days I have been reading here and there how the foreign media got it all wrong; that is the recent troubles in Bangkok. The journalists strongly disagree. The message they put across seemed to say that a bunch of elites and people who did not want Thaksin Shinawatra, or anybody with the same […]

BRITS BEHAVING BADLY – THAILAND TO GET NEW DOSE FOR BRITISH TELEVISION Brace yourselves for another massive dose of Brits behaving badly in Thailand. The new genre of British television which spends half the summer in Europe following Brits around the Costas and Greece –  now chases them during the winter months in Thailand. To […]

  From ANDREW DRUMMOND, BANGKOK. Glitter pictures by ANDREW CHANT. 18 October 2012.  The corridors of power at the BBC are being shaken again. First disgraced disc jockey Jimmy Savile is linked to child sexual abuse. Then the doubly-knighted Savile (He has a British and Papal Knighthood) was caught on camera happily defending Gary Glitter, aka […]