Thailand

Last night this website topped 250,000 readers in the last month which is worth having a small beer to celebrate. Today it also should top that amount. The counter resets itself each day at 7 am. I think it will settle down at around this level. Good news all around. Although we are about three […]

MUM- EMOTIONAL BUT HAPPY AND RELIEVED The Thai Supreme Court has come down in favour of a 62-year-old mum from Hereford who has been fighting for eight years to have her son’s killer jailed for murder. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office have informed Mrs Yvonne Hart, of Belmont, Hereford, that the Supreme Court has confirmed […]

BUT INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANISATION IS NOT MY FATHER? That Thailand’s fishing industry has been running out of control for years now seems to be very much public knowledge for years now. The industry has also been severely criticised internationally for environmental malpractive, such as bottom dredging. Whether these criticisms will result in any changes remains […]

WHEELS OF JUSTICE GRIND ON- The trial of Pattaya Times publisher Drew Noyes and his common law wife Wanrapa Boonsu for the attempted extortion of the Thonglor Clinic – Jomtien – has been adjourned until November*. (Picture: Dr. Michael Goulet points to Drew Noyes and Wanrapa Boonsu after they were arrested in a ‘sting’) And […]

BRIT DEATHS, HOSPITALISATIONS, UP BY 31% IN THAILAND- It’s that time of year again when the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office issues their annual ‘British Behaviour Abroad Report’. It is of course a misnomer. Sounds like a school report on Brits abroad doesn’t it? I detect a little condescension. It sort of deflects from the […]

(Cover: British rice worker – Thailand. He was a former millionaire who lost everything first to his wife then an unscrupulous foreign businessman. He worked for free, just a bowl of rice and  a roof over his head) There’s a monumental campaign going on at the moment to save Thailand’s rice industry. The country has […]

This video I present without much comment – unless to perhaps to say that mass tourism can breed mutual contempt and these sort of incidents are getting more common. A Brit is arguing at a bar. He is angry. A mention of refund is made but it is not clear over what and who has […]

BUT BRITISH MUMS OF LADS KILLED IN BUS CRASHES IN THAILAND WILL NOT GO AWAY. -TAKE THE PLANE – THEY SAY (Pic Felix Cooper Robinson) Two years after a British Coroner sent a ‘Rule 43’ letter to authorities in Thailand making road safety suggestion in relation to bus travel – not even one acknowledgment has […]

(Thanks to a wire service report) MUM’S THE WORD AND THE PROBLEM WILL GO AWAY- (Pic: No batteries! So if this man’s not fit- its f**ked’  Former P.M . – Abhisit) It’s happened again. And it will happen again. Thailand was sold a pup and it now has egg on its face but nobody is […]

CORONERS IN UK TOLD FOREIGN OFFICE OFFICIALS THEY MUST GIVE STRONGER WARNINGS TO TOURISTS- A British mother who lost her 19-year-old son in one of Thailand’s numerous coach crashes is flying out to ensure justice for her child who was due to study economic at Manchester University. Rachel Cooper, from Brighton, East Sussex, will attend […]