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Raymond Chang

AN INTRIGUING CATCH 22 FOR THAI POLICE. HOW CAN WE BE CORRUPT? WE WOULD’NT BE POLICE

INVESTIGATE OURSELVES?  SOME MISTAKE SURELY? An investigation into how the Thai Justice system reversed a serious assault case against the son of a Chinese-American millionaire and put the victim of the attack through hell has been blocked by a classic ‘Catch 22’ – getting the Thai police to authorise an investigation against itself. In the […]

FAST TRACKED! TOURIST COURT COMMON ASSAULT CASE TO BE HEARD…NEXT SUMMER

WHEN YOU’RE SMILING – THE WHOLE WORLD SMILES WITH YOU! In a remarkable tribute to the failure of Thailand’s ‘fast track’ tourist courts on the Thai holiday island of Koh Samui the trial of two Chinese Americans charged with the vicious attack of Australian Jack Hansen-Bartel in June 2014 has been postponed until the American […]

AUSSIE MUM PROTESTS CORRUPTION AT THAI PARLIAMENT

– LOVE, COMPASSION, TOLERANCE –  ARE WE INCLUDED? An Aussie mother stages a sit in at the Thai Parliament to complain about rampant corruption in Thailand. The victim is her son Jack Hansen-Bartel a former studentsof the New International School  in Thailand (NIST) who was savagely beaten in a police controlled party bar in Koh […]

SAMUI ATTACK: RICH KIDS TOLD THEY DO NOT HAVE TO ATTEND THEIR OWN TRIAL

COMPLAINTS TO GO TO ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION OVER HANDLING OF CLUB RAGE CASE IN SAMUI Police and prosecutors on the Thai island of Koh Samui are to be asked to account for their behaviour before the Public Anti-Corruption Commission over allegations of perverting the course of justice in favour of the son of a Chinese-American millionaire. […]

FLY CHINA SOUTHERN AND DON’T SEE THE WORLD

Flying Sporran’s Weekend Diary (CONTD) While I have touched on the subject of human rights in China Raymond, Raymond Chang the Chinese American student who is singing about US Chinese détente might be better singing about something closer to home and more immediate – that is the deportation from Thailand over 100 Uyghurs last week […]

SAMUI ASSAULT MAN SINGS TO ALLEVIATE WORLD POVERTY – EXCEPT TRUCULENT POOR AUSSIES

‘NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE -NO MATTER WHERE YOU COME FROM’  (except Melbourne) Flying Sporran’s Weekend |Dairy Raymond Chang – one of the two Chinese Americans of the Shanghai American School who have been charged with the vicious attack on Jack Hansen-Bartel in Koh Samui last year has made a video to promote China’s friendship […]

IS THIS THE WORST COURT IN THAILAND?

JUDGES SET NEW LOW IN THAI JUSTICE SYSTEM Just when you think things cannot get worse – the Thai justice system never disappoints. Details are now coming out about the recent incarceration of Jack Hansen-Bartel – the young Australian former pupil of the New International School of Thailand – who was beaten up apparently by […]

FURY AS YOUNG AUSSIE ATTACKED BY MILLIONAIRE KIDS IN THAILAND GOES BEHIND BARS

AND THIS COURT WILL TRY TWO BURMESE FOR THE MURDERS OF HANNAH WITHERIDGE AND DAVID MILLER A Thai court held a young Aussie Jack Hansen-Bartel in custody today on a trivial misdemeanour charge concocted by a Chinese-American millionaire whose son and one other are accused of a vicious attack on him last year in Koh […]

HEAR YE! HEAR YE! SCHOOL’S OUT AND THE COURT IS NOW IN SESSION

THE AMERICAN OR CHINESE WAY? Chang Just been down to my local mall to have a coffee with Annie Hansen – the mother of Jack Hansen-Bartel who was seriously attacked on Koh Samui last year and has recently undergone more corrective surgery. If any case is worth observing to see how the Thai justice system […]

FROM A BANGKOK HOSPITAL A MOTHER’S CONTEMPT

The ‘Rich Kids Incident’ – Eight Months On  A Valentine’s Day Message As the case against two young Chinese-American rich kids for the brutal attack on Australian Jack Hansen-Bartel drags on in the Samui Courts with attempts by Thai police to even charge the victim, his mother is not holding back. A long term expat […]