News

• Pattaya City News to be replaced on Sophon by Pattaya One News [via Pattaya City News]

 

• A drunk Turkish man was arrested at Tony's Pub, Walking street, South Pattaya on May 21, 2008, charged with molesting a Thai girl. He was fined Bt1,000 for slapping the girl in the face and had to pay damages for "goosing" her (grabbing her bottom). [via Pattaya Daily News]

Ed. He's one lucky effer. He could have been hospitalised by either the girls or a Thai dog pack but he gets a way with a fine.

 

• A former British police officer was arrested in Bangkok on Wednesday as part of an international crackdown on a sex trafficking ring in London last month which resulted in nine Thais being arrested. Police allege that Ian Shuttleworth, 42, acted as a job broker, luring and smuggling Thai women into Britain for a gang based in London.

Mr Shuttleworth was arrested at his rented room in the Villa building on Soi Suan Phlu in Sathorn district. The former police officer runs a company providing bodyguards for Thai VIPs in the Sukhumvit area, according to Central Investigation Bureau deputy chief Pol Maj-Gen Panya Mamen. [via Bangkok Post]

 

• Raimon Land to support two more big regattas in the Gulf. The 14th PC Classic will be raced in the Northern Gulf off the Royal Varuna Yacht Club on Saturday, 31 May and the 7th Koh Samui international week from June 1-7. [via Bangkok Post]

 

• Book of Portraits of the Katoeys (Ladyboys) from Nana Plaza


Now available, a 120 page 8x10 inch book of color portraits of the Katoeys of Nana Entertainment Plaza, by Randy Magnus. [via Nana Journals]
It can be ordered at: The Katoeys of Nana Entertainment Plaza.

 

• Wildcats Bar, Soho Square is now open everyday from 6.00pm till 3.00am

 

• An Australian man was charged in a Singapore court with attempted murder in pushing his Thai wife out of a fourth-floor window, news reports said on Wednesday.

Jason John Porteous, 35, was accused of shoving his wife Pimchanok out of the bedroom window of their condominium, The Straits Times said. Porteous, a Singapore resident doing administrative work, was sent for psychiatric assessment. He is scheduled to appear in court again on June 3. If convicted, Porteous faces life imprisonment, caning and a fine.

Mrs Pimchanok, in her early 30s, has been in an intensive care unit since the incident on Sunday.

Neighbours told the newspaper they saw her lying on the ground beside a drain, bleeding and unable to speak. The woman, her husband and sister had moved to the city-state two to three months ago [via Bangkok Post]

Ed. They must have misread the script. Surely it's the husband who should have gone out the window?

 

• The Bush administration make an important emission