Computer Crime Act
SECOND CASE IN BBC LIBEL ROW IN THAILAND DISMISSED. BENT LAWYER GOES FREE TOO!
FRAUD IN THAI PROPERTY MARKET COVERED UP AMID CLAIMS THAT THE SYSTEM IS ROTTEN TO THE CORE. CAUGHT IN THE ACT BUT – STILL NO ACTION AGAINST BENT THAI LAWYER PRATUAN THANARAK Briton Ian Rance, the second defendant in the Jonathan Head BBC libel case has today also been acquitted after the Phuket lawyer, who notarised […]
THAILAND’S LEGAL BLOOD SPORT AND A BBC CORRESPONDENT
BUT THIS CASE CANNOT BE SETTLED ‘FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL’ The Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand have issued a statement in support of BBC correspondent Jonathan Head, a former President, who faces jail together with a Briton Ian Rance, one of many people defrauded out of properties on the Thai island of Phuket. The […]
BBC TO GO HEAD TO HEAD IN THAI COURT IN COMPUTER CRIME ACT CASE
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 […]
THAILAND CONTINUES TO CRACK DOWN ON FREEDOM OF SPEECH
The Thai military government in its continued strategy to cover up matters it does not want the public to know about, not least of which are its hands in the till style government while supposedly clamping down on corruption, continues to clamp down on freedom of expression. Its rather humourless leader General Prayuth Chan-Ocha, who […]
WILL THE BBC’S CORRESPONDENT BE IN COURT UNTIL RETIREMENT?
The BBC’s Jonathan Head, who is being sued for what a lot more foreign correspondents in Thailand should have been doing for years, is finding out just what it means to get involved in Thailand’s controversial legal system. Jonathan confronts lawyer in Phuket. Jonathan, who took up the cases of Briton’s Ian Rance and Irishman […]
AMERICAN TEACHER SENTENCED TO JAIL FOR LIBELING PATTAYA CONVICTED EXTORTIONIST
AN ‘INSULT TO MY DIGNITY’ SAID DREW NOYES – AS THAI COURT SIDES WITH MAN WITH A 25 YEAR HISTORY OF DISHONESTY One of the ‘libelous pictures – Noyes left. Goudie right The criminal court in Pattaya today jailed an American schoolteacher for a year for libeling Drew Walter Noyes, an American who set up […]
INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS PUT SQUEEZE ON THAILAND’S PINEAPPLE INDUSTRY
THAI PINEAPPLE INDUSTRY URGED TO TELL NATURAL FRUIT TO ‘BACK OFF’ Some 98 international organisations have warned Thailand’s Pineapple Industry Association that if they do not disassociate themselves from Natural Fruit which is suing British human rights activists Andy Hall for libel, that they may too face an international boycott. The organisations which include labour […]
‘Thailand ‘on trial’ over food industry exposé victimisation’
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has described Thailand as being ‘on trial’ for allowing a company to prosecute a human rights defender who exposed modern day slavery in its canned fruit and fishing industry. The ITF is demanding that charges against Andy Hall, a UK citizen who is due to stand trial in September […]
CHIANG MAI SEX PARTY GOES VIRAL
The Khao Sod newspaper today has printed a story expressing shock at the goings on at a nightclub restaurant in the northern capital, At the restaurant in Canal Road, Hang Dong, activities going on there were posted on the internet. Judging by the headlines it is the posting of the pictures on the internet which […]
NEXT WEEK IN THE COURTS – WITNESSES TO TESTIFY AGAINST DREW NOYES – BRIAN GOUDIE
BUT KOPALODEATHIS! DREW AND WANRAPA GO GREEK The controversial American, Drew Walter Noyes, former publisher of the Pattaya Times newspaper, is due to surrender to bail on Monday on charges now being returned against him by Andrew Drummond, owner of this site. His common-law wife Wanrapa Boosu has already submitted bail but Noyes, 58, was […]
