NOT A LOT IT SEEMS Three programmes have crashed over the last month at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand – or rather they have been cancelled at the orders of the current Thai military government. The latest a few hours ago was to have been a presentation by Human Rights Watch on the ill-treatment of the Montagnards of Vietnam …
BRITISH EMBASSY AND FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS BACK BRITISH JOURNALIST’S FIGHT AGAINST FOREIGN CRIMINALS
The British Government has supported moves by the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand calling on the Thai authorities to review ‘frivolous’ criminal defamation cases brought against a veteran British foreign correspondent, who has been investigating foreign crime in Thailand. Britain’s Ambassador Mark Kent and FCCT President Jonathan Head, the BBC’s South East Asia Correspondent have expressed their concern independently to …
“I WAS ALMOST TAKEN IN BY FAKE LAWYER’
A former Thai journalist who became the President of The Federation of Thai and Foreign Spouses told a press conference in Bangkok today how she came across a fake lawyer representing clients in the eastern seaboard resort of Pattaya. Kanokrat Nimsamooth Booth said she was looking out for a lawyer to help pursue a case at the European Court of …
A FAKE LAWYER ATTEMPTS TO GAG BRITISH JOURNALIST AGAIN
A British journalist who claims he is being sued by a convicted criminal, a former pimp, and a man accused by the American press of share and property fraud, and sexual harassment said tonight that he would be revealing the ‘dark side’ of foreign crime in Thailand at a press conference tomorrow (Thursday). British journalist #AndrewDrummond, former correspondent for the …