In August 2007 I wrote Death of maid in Malaysia highlights endemic foreign worker abuse which chronicled the widespread abuse of domestic foreign workers (commonly referred to as maids) by Malaysian employers. The story focused […]
Just two days after the Chiang Mai Provincial Court handed down a four year sentence to 61-year-old Australian William Thomas Douglas for the March 2008 murder of American tourist Gary Bruce Poretsky, Thailand’s Court of […]
A 61-year-old former Perth resident will serve just two years and nine months imprisonment for the murder of a 46-year-old Hawaii resident in the northern Thailand city of Chiang Mai after making a cash payment […]
A 61-year-old Australian man has appeared in a preliminary hearing of the Chiang Mai Provincial Court over the shooting death in March of Hawaiian tourist, Gary Bruce Poretsky William Thomas Douglas, formerly of the Western […]
A 60-year-old Australian man has been remanded in custody and formerly declared a suspect in the fatal weekend shooting of 46-year-old American tourist Gary Bruce Poretsky in the northern Thailand city of Chiang Mai. William […]
A 60-year-old former Perth resident faces the death penalty in Thailand after he was arrested over the fatal killing of a 46-year-old Hawaii resident in the northern Thailand city of Chiang Mai over the weekend. […]
The execution of the islamist fundamentalists responsible for the 2002 Bali bombings that killed more than 200 people could face further delays. The possibility of the sentences against Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, Imam Samudra and Ali […]
Claims by the Burmese government that Japanese photo-journalist Kenji Nagai had been killed by a stray bullet have been shown to be a blatant lie. Kenji Nagai was murdered on the streets of Yangon by […]
eBay might be the worlds largest online auction site, but when it comes to accepting responsibility for what is posted on its site, or getting involved in problematic transactions, the company is more content to […]