The Burmese community in Koh Tao is unfairly targeted and scapegoated whenever anything goes wrong on the island. Visiting journalist highlights the stark contrast between their living conditions and those of the tourists who visit Koh Tao.
Explore the dark cloud cast over the island of Koh Tao in Death Island podcast, while in Behind the Bastards Robert Evans exposes bad people and who they really are.
Organised crime has a significant influence on some foreign police forces. The pay being low in police departments in countries such as Thailand leads to total corruption of the police force where seniority of the police decides the picking order of the offenders' cars seized during search.
The Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot, came to power in Cambodia in 1975 and embarked on a brutal reign of terror that resulted in the deaths of approximately 1.7 million people.
The provision of paying poor rates on holdings worth less than four pounds per annum and landlords being incentivized financially to evict their tenants, led to an increase in tenant evictions in 19th century England.
This episode discusses the different factors leading to deaths during the famine such as starvation, exposure, and diseases, and how the famine affected the English and Irish middle class who had purchased land prior to or during the early days of the famine.