Cambodia

The popular Thai expat website ThaiVisa.com has published a story stating that British boiler room fraudster Toby Nelhams, the believed mastermind behind the murder of fellow Briton Tony Kenway in Pattaya last January, had been released by Cambodian police as long ago as last October. If that’s true then for Nelhams, who was found guilty […]

The sentencing of Briton Toby James Nelhams to eight months in jail yesterday in Phnom Penh for running an illegal online company in Cambodia – a boiler room fraud operation – came as something of a disappointment. Nelhams This is not because of the length of sentence. Nobody expected the Cambodian authorities to know what […]

NOW ITS SWEET HOME ALABAMA FOR CHLD ABUSER WHO FAKED HIS OWN DEATH TO PROWL CAMBODIA AND THAILAND. BUT HOW FAST WAS THE ‘LONG’ARM OF THE LAW? Congratulations to the Royal Thai Police for finally catching up with Jackson Matthew Hall who was wanted in Alabama for serious sexual offences including the rape of five-year-old […]

OH, AND LEONARDO DI CAPRIO – THE THAI BOILER ROOM BOYS PIN-UP –  IS NOW ROOTING FOR SPURS My, oh my. Leonardo di Caprio seems to be a popular figure down in Pattaya – at least the image of him playing Jordan Belfort in ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ is. First up cropped Leo on the […]

WHAT RUSSIAN MAFIA?  NOT HERE! Before – Captain Ostap Doroshenko – family picture It has got it all. Feuding Russians, retribution, fast cars, perhaps faster women, and an island fortress resort in an country struggling to develop. Two Russians Nikolai Doroshenko and Sergei Polonsky have been having a long business feud over ownership of the […]

SOMETHING OF A DIPLOMATIC SCREW-UP Australia’s Memorandum of Understanding with Cambodia to take refugees from the Pacific island of Nauru is coming under more and flak in the worldwide media. Already described as a new low in Australia’s deplorable treatment of asylum seekers by Amnesty International it seem that in any case none of the […]

The Cambodian authorities appear to have concluded that Canadian Dave Walker died of a heart attack due to lack of fresh air around the country’s historic Angkor Wat complex.  This may be of concern to millions of tourists who visit the site every year but travel agents appear to be keeping their clients in the […]

The SUN newspaper in London today is headlining the arrest of an alleged British child sex offender in Cambodia.  Michael Jones, 55, was arrested by Cambodian police after being put under surveillance by APLE – the Cambodian non government organization ‘Action Pour Les Enfants’. Yi Moden, Deputy Director of Field Operations at APLE said:“APLE started […]

There are times when, it is said, the bigger the lie the better. In the United States a whole industry has been built around Somaly Mam a Cambodian woman who runs Agir Pour Les Femmes en Situation Précaire – Helping Woman in Danger. Hollywood stars flock to have their photographs taken with her and wonder […]

In a bizarre twist to the story surrounding the death of Canadian film maker David Walker in Cambodia a statement issued under the name of his cousin today claims that James Guido Eglitis the Australian serial fraudster wanted for kidnapping exposed on this site last week was planning to murder several ‘other people’ and some […]