A BBC journalist has blagged his way into the Immigration Detention Centre in Bangkok to broadcast a damning report on Thailand which he says welcomes tourists but refuses to help anyone seeking refuge. The report by Producer-reporter Chris Rogers was broadcast today and will be broadcast again. tomorrow on BBC Our World. The report, which may have been overshadowed in …
THE PATTAYA BRIDGE CLUB RAID – INCOMING FIRE!
THE PATTAYA BRIDGE CLUB RAID – JUST WHO SHOULD BE IN THE DOCK? There are now multiple versions of what will happen to the now celebrated members of the Pattaya Bridge Club after their alleged ‘gambling den’ was raided last week. Here are the two principal ones. The official version from the local Police chief Police Colonel Sunhat Pumpanueang is …
THE UNTHINKABLE! WHAT IF THE FOREIGN MEDIA HAVE GOT IT ALL WRONG?
For some days I have been reading here and there how the foreign media got it all wrong; that is the recent troubles in Bangkok. The journalists strongly disagree. The message they put across seemed to say that a bunch of elites and people who did not want Thaksin Shinawatra, or anybody with the same surname in power, wanted an …
BRITS, PUKING, SHAGGING, DRINKING, CHUNDERING – COMING TO A HOLIDAY ISLAND NEAR YOU
BRITS BEHAVING BADLY – THAILAND TO GET NEW DOSE FOR BRITISH TELEVISION Brace yourselves for another massive dose of Brits behaving badly in Thailand. The new genre of British television which spends half the summer in Europe following Brits around the Costas and Greece – now chases them during the winter months in Thailand. To catch a Brit having sex …
EXCLUSIVE! GARY GLITTER – THE UNTOLD STORY
From ANDREW DRUMMOND, BANGKOK. Glitter pictures by ANDREW CHANT. 18 October 2012. The corridors of power at the BBC are being shaken again. First disgraced disc jockey Jimmy Savile is linked to child sexual abuse. Then the doubly-knighted Savile (He has a British and Papal Knighthood) was caught on camera happily defending Gary Glitter, aka Paul Gadd, not only for …