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Erika Fry

EDITORS DUEL OVER ‘CADET’ REPORTER AND SENSITIVE THAI NAVY

A line appears to have been drawn under the spat between the Bangkok Post and the Columbia Journalism Review and the Bangkok Post over an article by former reporter Justin Heifetz. The Bangkok Post reacted angrily to an article by Heifetz who fled the newspaper after facing the might of the Thai Admiralty after it […]

DENIALS AND BETRAYAL AT THE BANGKOK POST

Another foreign journalist has gone public about his treatment and betrayal at Thailand’s biggest English language newspaper the ‘Bangkok Post’.  Justin Heifetz, who like Erika Fry worked for the Bangkok Sunday Post Spectrum Section, the section which comes closest to running anything resembling quality journalism in the newspaper, has gone public, like his predecessor Erika […]

FIVE YEARS ON THE PENNY DROPS – THAI OFFICIAL’S CAMPAIGN AGAINST BRITISH ACADEMIC WAS A FARCE

ASPARAGUS ALL ROUND! THAI SUPREME COURT CLEARS BRITISH ACADEMIC OF DEFAMATION – BUT FINDS THE PLAINTIFF GUILTY! A British academic, who took on the cheating boss of Thailand’s National Innovation Agency, has won a five year court battle which has now paved the way for prosecutions for corruption. Dr. Wyn Ellis from Swansea, who is […]

BRITISH EMBASSY INTERVENES AS ‘DEATH THREATS’ PROFESSOR IS PUT IN WITNESS PROTECTION SCHEME

‘WE TAKE THE SAFETY OF BRITISH CITIZENS SERIOUSLY’- The British Embassy has written to the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs to express its concern over the safety of Dr.Wyn Ellis, a British scientist who has received a series of threats, after high profile court battles with the director of Thailand’s National Innovation Agency. The Embassy […]

TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION FOLLOWS UP ‘FLYING SPORRAN’ EXCLUSIVES

ASPARAGUS WAR – THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT! Plus Drew Noyes’ vehicle of self aggrandizement, the illegal Pattaya Times bombs, as 3 am ranting American tries to deflect attention from his fraud cases. And the latest Noyes Rants – Only here (er, and on Facebook and anywhere they will be accepted) Flying Sporran’s […]

MY FIVE YEARS OF THAI HELL– BY BRITISH AGRICULTURALIST.

AN OUTRAGEOUS ABUSE OF THAI CRIMINAL LIBEL LAWS – A British scientist who went through five years of hell after revealing that Thailand’s Director of Innovation stole his research for a PHd has finally been fully vindicated by a Thai court. Dr Wyn Ellis, 55, from Morriston, Swansea, was attacked with bricks and forced to […]

Thailand's Director of Innovation Was 'Criminal Forger' – court rules

But N.I.A Director Gets Suspended Sentence And Small Fine Bangkok August 12 2012 A Flying Sporran Court Briefing Thailand’s Director of Innovation Supachai Lorlowhakarn has been given a six month suspended prison sentence and a small fine on a charge of criminal forgery. Lorlowhakarn, who in June had his PhD degree revoked by Chulalongkorn University […]