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THAI RIVER KWAI KILLER COP TRANSFERRED BACK HOME
'BANG, BANG, BANG', KILLER ON RIVER KWAI MOVES BACK TO HOME TOWN(From the Flying Sporran in Kanchanaburi)Just ten years after being sentenced to death, later reduced to 50 years, and later again...
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HIGH NOON ON KOH SAMUI - AIRLINE SEPARATES SCHOLARSHIP PUPIL FROM RICH KIDS
COURT CROWDED WITH LAWYERS - AS RICH KIDS JET IN FOR ADJOURNMENTThai Justice - Judge Admits Simple Case Could Take YearsJack on his own Bangkok Airways busLawyers for two American Chinese rich kids,...
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JE SUIS CHARLIE
A story scheduled to appear in the spot has been held over due to yesterday's attack on 'Charlie Hebdo' in Paris.Satire is a vital and essential tool in a journalist's very limited armoury. Yesterday's...
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THAILAND A HAVEN FOR FOREIGN CRIMINALS - SURELY NOT
Flying Sporran’s Weekend Diary ARE YOU KIDDING GENERAL SOMYOT?The author confronts foreign financial scammers inBangkok and their Thai fixer who was charged withconspiracy to murder New Zealander Ian...
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CHILD SOLDIERS IN SOUTHERN THAILAND - REVISITED
The question over the use of child soldiers in the conflict of Southern Thailand has raised its head again - this time in a 17 page report by Child Soldiers International. The report today is linked...
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MURDER SHE SAID! Hell Angells, A Child Bride, A Mispent Dowry and Shots In...
POLICE ACCUSED OF COVERING UP ANOTHER MURDER OF FOREIGNERThai Police have been accused of the cover up in the murder of another foreigner - this one shot three times with two guns in the north eastern...
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FINANCIAL ADVISER AND LAW FIRM MANAGER AT HAMMER AND TONGS
THERE WILL BE BLOOD IN BANGKOK!What happens when you put a Bangkok financial advisor together with the foreign managing director of a typical foreign controlled local law firm in Thailand and put them...
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BBC LEADS THE CHARGE ON THAI 'THAINESS' DAY
BANGKOK AIRPORT! COMING SOON ON BBC - WITH THE OBLIGATORY LADYBODYIt had to happen, There's been a documentary by British television of the major airports in Britain.Then there have been documentary...
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THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES - PATTAYA TIMES LEAVES A BLOT ON THE LANDSCAPE
THAILAND'S MILITARY HONOUR GUARD FOR PATTAYA BLACKMAILERSA sign above as supermarket till in Pattaya harks back to happier times for would-be newspaper magnate Drew Walter Noyes.Even though the Pattaya...
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ANOTHER 'GOOD' DAY FOR THAI JUSTICE
SCOT FREE!LumsdenThe Supreme Court has overruled an Appeal Court Judgment in favour of British journalist Andrew Drummond, which was described as ‘demonstrating a fundamental respect for investigative...
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BRITISH JOURNALIST QUITS THAILAND AFTER 25 YEARS – STATEMENT
British journalist Andrew Drummond has quit Thailand after 25 years covering Southeast Asia from the Thai capital Bangkok.The primary reasons were a direct threat to the safety of himself and his three...
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THE LONG ARM OF A PHONY BARRISTER -
The Flying Sporran's Thai Country DiaryTwo second rate fraudsters seem annoyed at the fact that that journalist Andrew Drummond the author of this site has left Thailand claiming he has breached bail...
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BLIND EYE TO MURDER? - BANKS ACCUSED OF COLLUDING WITH BANGKOK BOILER ROOMS
BANGKOK BOILER ROOM KING WORTH US$150 MILLIONA story in the South China Morning Post yesterday may give a further clue to readers why I am not in Thailand today, or specifically where the threats come...
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BRIT WALKS FROM THAI MURDER CHARGE
BUT PARENTS OF VICTIM HAVE DOUBTSA 23-year-old Briton who allegedly pushed his pal of a balcony off a Bangkok apartment to his death in June 2013 has been acquitted of a murder charge but fined the...
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THAILAND'S MOST FAMOUS BARRISTER RETURNS TO THE BAR
FROM THE ‘JAGGIE THISTLE TO THE WIG AND PEN?’Flying Sporran’s DiaryFirst picture of Goude in Thailand, outside his personal collectionBrian Goudie, 48, by now probably Thailand’s most famous fake...
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BRITISH JOURNALIST - THANK YOU THAILAND
Wow. It has been a hectic month as I have been doing a little touring with my children before heading back to the U.K. They do not really understand what is happening. We are sort of on an adventure,...
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IT'S MINE! ALL MINE! SAYS DEFIANT FAKE LAWYER
'I'VE JUST MADE A MILLION SO 'F#CK YOU!'Brian Goudie, the fake British barrister currently on trial for posing as a lawyer to cheat a 76-year-old American woman out of 7.8 million baht, defiantly...
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TOP CIVIL SERVANT SUMMONSED OVER ALLEGATIONS OF ATTEMPTED MURDER OF BRIT PROF
A BAG OF GRENADES, 450 DEATH THREATS, ROCKS THROUGH A CAR WINDOW - DON'T CAUSE A THAI CIVIL SERVANT TO LOSE FACE!In a case monitored by the British Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand’s Department of Special...
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BRITISH GIRL DEAD IN KOH TAO IN LINK TO RAPE AND MURDER OF HANNAH WITHERIDGE
ONE DEATH TOO FAR? A 23-year-old British woman was found dead on the Thai island of Koh Tao early yesterday leaving Thailand's military controlled government and Tourism Authority with a potential...
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'JUSTIFIABLY PROUD' BRITISH CONSULAR SERVICE PROMISES TO REMOVE DIGIT
FAMILIES OF MURDER VICTIMS ABROAD TO GET MORE ASSISTANCEThe British Foreign and Commonwealth Office is to set up an ‘Access to Justice Unit’ to help the families of victims of murder and manslaughter...
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