Most readers of this site will be aware of Alan Hall the former ‘independent financial adviser’ – and I use that expression loosely, based in Chiang Mai. But here’s another warning for Expats perhaps in other countries. Beware of this ‘UK Expat Pensions’. This is Alan Hall’s website and of course back home up t’north he is back to his …
CHIANG MAI SEX PARTY GOES VIRAL
The Khao Sod newspaper today has printed a story expressing shock at the goings on at a nightclub restaurant in the northern capital, At the restaurant in Canal Road, Hang Dong, activities going on there were posted on the internet. Judging by the headlines it is the posting of the pictures on the internet which has caused the most upset. …
BRITISH DRUGS KING DONS THAI ‘FOREIGN POLICE’ UNIFORM
A propos famous Brits in Thailand. Well occasionally there is the odd heart rendering story and once such is the case of Steve Saunders in Chiang Mai who is now dedicating his life to helping tourists in distress or rather ‘foreigners in need’. Good old Steve has joined the Foreign Police Volunteers in Chiang Mai bless his cotton socks. He’s …
ALERT – FOR OWEN WILSON – PIERCE BROSNAN AND SOME CHIANG MAI SCAMMERS
A warning today for tourists and expats in Chiang Mai. Be very careful if you chose to go to a karaoke bar. Some people are ending up with exorbitant bills and the police may be in on it. One man was charged 46,000 baht for spending four hours in a karaoke with a couple of friends. He refused to pay. …
KIRSTY JONES MURDER COMMUNIQUES COULD DAMAGE ANGLO-THAI RELATIONS
‘FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT’ MOVE REJECTED PLUS – DEMO AT THE FCO AND DISPELLING A KIRSTY JONES MYTH Sue Jones the mother of Kirsty Jones, the 23-year-old gap year student who was murdered and raped in Chiang Mai 13 years ago appears to have come to a dead end in seeking closure on one of Thailand’s most controversial crime cases …
MURDER ARREST CAUSES PANIC AMONG FOREIGN HOME OWNERS
HOME BUYERS IN CHIANG MAI FIND THEMSELVES CAUGHT UP IN THE DRUGS POLITICS OF THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE Foreign home owners in Chiang Mai have been caught between a rock and a hard place after the arrest of a major developer for murder and suspicions that a foreign housing development in the city has been built with drugs money. Some are …
Who is hiding the identity of Kirsty Jones’ killer?
ANDREW DRUMMOND BANGKOK – August 10 2012 (Here’s a link to a detailed piece by Pim Kimasingki of Chiang Mai City life who held the fort for me on the day Kirsty’s body was discovered and was of great assistance throughout) Welsh police and the mother of Kirsty Jones who was murdered on this day in Chiang Mai 12 years ago …
Downtown 'Death Hotel' Dies in 4 minute video
August 8 2012 Comment The controversy raged on and on for months and months – but the demise of the ‘Downtown Inn’ in Chiang Mai – has now been reduced to a four minute music video on you tube. The Downtown Inn hit the headlines last year when a number of people died either on premises, after staying there, or …