General News
NO RAPE HERE SAY ORGASM HOLDING YOGA FOLLOWERS
Rape allegations, a fleeing Romanian Swami, drugs denials. Situation normal on Thai holiday island With the sudden departure of their Romanian Swami following numerous allegations of rape and sexual assault against his female followers the current leaders of the Agama tantric yoga school on the Thai island of Koh Phangan are involved in a major […]
BANGKOK BLOCKADED
PROTESTERS CLOSE DOWN THAI CAPITAL Seven hours into the shutdown of the Thai capital Bangkok Prime Minister Yingluck Shinwatra today was reported to have called for talks with protesters to discuss reform proposals and a delay to the election. With the capital choked, and several ministries and the Stock Exchange either closed or about to […]
CAMBODIA: MORE ARRESTS IN ‘CASH FOR QUESTIONS’ PEER BIOFUEL SCANDAL
GOING DOWN THE BIO-FUEL ROAD ROAD – QUESTIONABLE FOREIGNERS AND CAMBODIAN OFFICIALS Officers of Cambodia’s Anti-Corruption Unit have arrested a lawyer and a provincial official allegedly involved in a biofuel scam promoted by ‘cash for questions’ Peer Lord Laird. Greg Fryett (left) Lord Laird (right) The move follows the arrest of British businessman Greg Fryett, […]
GUNNED DOWN IN THAILAND THROUGH LOSS OF FACE – A YOUNG CANADIAN’S DILEMMA
VIDEO: SEVEN MONTHS ON AFTER A RANDOM BAR SHOOTING IN CHIANG MAI JUSTICE AND AID SOUGHT FOR VICTIM Paralysed after a random bar shooting in Chiang Mai carried out by a Thai man who came back with a gun after losing face, justice is still being sought for Canadian Nic Brown, from Vancouver, an English […]
DREW NOYES TO FACE CIVIL ACTION TRIAL AGAINST MIFFY’S PRODUCER
Our favourite re-assuring and credible American Drew Noyes is to go to trial on February 4th for cheating a Dutch businessman and film producer out of 2.5 million baht. Noyes,57, is being taken to court along with Wanrapa Boonsu, and PAPPA Co Ltd., with misappropriating the cash from Theo van der Schaaf. van der Schaaf, […]
THAILAND IN CRISIS – THE GOVERNMENT VIEW
The following briefing by Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra was tonight issued to the Diplomatic Corps and Foreign Correspondents and international organisations by the News Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs before the start of the Bangkok shutdown. It is followed by the MFA chronology of events (unnofficial translation) which has preceded the current volatile […]
BRITISH MURDER SUSPECT REPORTED DEAD IN CAMBODIA
A British murder suspect reported by the Daily Mail to have been ‘likely’ arrested in Phnom Penh was today reported by the Phnom Penh Post as ‘likely’ dead. Two days ago the London Daily Mail reported the arrest of Stuart Green, 47, from, Eccles, Manchester, for the murder of a prostitute known as ‘Nari’ in […]
INQUIRY INTO BRITAIN’S CONSULAR SERVICES – COMMENTS WANTED NOW
ASSESS BRITAIN’S LEVEL OF SUPPORT FOR ITS EXPATRIATES! The British Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committe have launched an enquiry into British Consular Services world wide and has invited interested groups and individuals to contribute their views. But time is running out. This particular notification came to by way of ‘Prisoners Abroad’ . If anyone has a […]
TANKS TO ROLL IN ‘OPERATION BANGKOK SHUTDOWN’
From Andrew Drummond, Bangkok, Pic: news.cn Thailand was today in fear of a military coup today after its Army Commander in Chief announced that he was bringing tanks into the capital for ‘Children’s Day’. Then after police announced there would be no Children’s Day in Bangkok this year as the city was ‘under seige’ the […]
‘THE JOKER’ IN CHILD SEX PURCHASE RIDDLE
‘CHARGED WITH PURCHASING SEX FROM A MINOR’ The Cambodian newspapers Koh Santepheap Daily and Phnom Penh Post are today reporting that a Canadian has been arrested for purchasing sex from a minor after a 14-year-old boy left his hotel room in Battambang. Scott Vadim Benderman was arrested in a room in the Haing Lay Hotel […]
