Thailand
BEHIND THE HUNT FOR THE CHILD RAPIST
NOW ITS SWEET HOME ALABAMA FOR CHLD ABUSER WHO FAKED HIS OWN DEATH TO PROWL CAMBODIA AND THAILAND. BUT HOW FAST WAS THE ‘LONG’ARM OF THE LAW? Congratulations to the Royal Thai Police for finally catching up with Jackson Matthew Hall who was wanted in Alabama for serious sexual offences including the rape of five-year-old […]
MIGRANT WORKERS WERE ABUSED IN THAILAND – COURT RULES
EMPLOYEES COMPENSATED AND AWARDED 1.7 MILLION THAI BAHT US$5,2000 BUT THEY CONTINUE WITH CLAIM FOR US$1.2 MILLION In a landmark case Burmese migrant workers labouring on a poultry farm in Lopburi, central Thailand, have been awarded compensation for their abuse at the hands of their employers who were supplying chicken meat for export through the […]
FAMILY APPEAL AS BRIT DRUG REHAB BOSS IN THAILAND IS JAILED
ANOTHER CHAPTER IN THAILAND’S DODGY REHAB RECORD An internet appeal has gone out to raise funds for a former counsellor at a drugs and alcohol rehab centre in Koh Samui after he was arrested on drugs related charges in Pattaya. Cash is being sought for Dee Dario, a Briton, who has been involved 12 step […]
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS CLUB CONCERNED AGAIN
The following statement has been issued by the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand in relation to the journalists who met up with members of the TNLA (Ta’ang National Liberation Army) in Myanmar (Burma) and who have disappeared after being seized by the Burmese military. The professional membership of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand (FCCT) […]
DRAFT LAWS AGAINST TORTURE AND ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES – THAI GOVERNMENT ASKED
Five legal and human rights organisations have called on the Thai government not to prevaricate against drafting laws allowing prosecutions for torture and enforced disappearances in the country. This followed a decision by the National Legislative Assembly on February 21st to seen the proposed new law back to the cabinet for another review. This all […]
CHEAP CHARLIE’S CLASSY GRADUATES
Boiler room fraud is the perfect crime in Thailand specifically because Thai police will not investigate it, and secondly the money is hidden and moved on around multiple third parties confounding even the best police in the world. However there seems to be another one, which I must admit I had to laugh at. The […]
BRIT CHILD ABUSER EXPOSED IN PATTAYA AND RELEASED WAS ‘ONE OF THE MOST SERIOUS CASES’
A career British child abuser, who was arrested twice in Thailand for suspected offences against children faces life in prison after admitting 45 offences against children, many abroad. In fact, of those offences, Mark Frost, also as Andrew Tracy, pleaded guilty to nine offences against children in Thailand between 2009 and 2012. The Thai victims […]
AS THAI BOILER ROOM MURDER ENQUIRY STUMBLES – OTHER WOLVES REVEALED
OH, AND LEONARDO DI CAPRIO – THE THAI BOILER ROOM BOYS PIN-UP – IS NOW ROOTING FOR SPURS My, oh my. Leonardo di Caprio seems to be a popular figure down in Pattaya – at least the image of him playing Jordan Belfort in ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ is. First up cropped Leo on 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 […]
UNIVERSITY FIRES PROF WHO SPOKE OUT IN DEATH CONTROVERSY
CONTROVERSIAL UNIVERSITY IN THAILAND LETS WHISTLE BLOWER GO An American professor who questioned the circumstances of the death of another lecturer at Webster University’s Thai campus at Cha-am has been fired without reason. Donald Johnson had been asked to sign a ‘cease and desist order’ by the University’s director Keith Welsh, banning him from showing […]
