baa99 Posted September 7, 2015 Report Share Posted September 7, 2015 http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-34169104 A UK academic has spent the last four days in detention at an airport in Thailand over a dispute arising from a UN report he wrote nine years ago. Agricultural consultant Wyn Ellis was stopped at Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport and told he had been reported as a threat to national security. It is a twist in an extraordinary saga which shows problems over protecting intellectual property in Thailand. It also highlights the dangers of exposing well-connected Thai officials. .... On further investigation he (Ellis) realised that nearly all of the dissertation had been copied from other sources; only in 14 pages out of 161, he says, could he not find clear evidence of plagiarism. The dissertation had been submitted by Supachai Lorlowhakarn - director of Thailand's National Innovation Agency (NIA), an organisation that promises to promote and protect intellectual property - for his PhD at Thailand's elite Chulalongkorn University. Dr Ellis filed a complaint, accusing Mr Supachai of stealing intellectual property, and asking the university to reject the dissertation. Nothing happened, and Mr Supachai was allowed to graduate. But a great deal happened to Dr Ellis. The NIA director filed nine lawsuits against him, including charges of criminal defamation, which carries a possible two-year prison sentence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
My Penis is hungry Posted September 7, 2015 Report Share Posted September 7, 2015 Some arsehole thai copied the poms work, then has the pom arrested. Irony, the name of the organisation they work for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
My Penis is hungry Posted September 7, 2015 Report Share Posted September 7, 2015 Article not quite right, the thai took the pom to court, only to have the court charge him m guilty of plagerism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khunsanuk Posted September 7, 2015 Report Share Posted September 7, 2015 Hi, The defamation laws in this country are pretty fucked up. Besides, is it still defamation if the accusations are true? Sanuk! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted September 7, 2015 Report Share Posted September 7, 2015 It's defamation if my lawyer is bigger than yours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baa99 Posted September 7, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2015 How FU was the dissertation committee at the top Thailand uni. Calls into question all degrees awarded to hiso folks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted September 7, 2015 Report Share Posted September 7, 2015 What you said. I understand completely why places like NZ do not allow educational qualifications from Thailand, Laos etc, to count, in NZ Universities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
My Penis is hungry Posted September 7, 2015 Report Share Posted September 7, 2015 Amazing the UK man holds a Thai passport, will fuck that's not even useful. FCCT STATEMENT ON THE DETENTION OF DR WYN ELLIS The professional membership of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand calls for the immediate release of Dr Wyn Ellis, the British-Thai academic being detained by immigration police at Suvarnabhumi International Airport. Ellis was detained on Thursday,3 September as he returned to Bangkok from a holiday overseas. He was informed that he had been placed on a blacklist in December 2009 as a "threat to Thai society" at the request of Supachai Lorlowhakarn, then the director of the National Innovation Agency (NIA). Ellis was entering Thailand on his UK passport, having mislaid his Thai one. Ellis has lived and worked in Thailand for 30 years, conducting agricultural research for Chulalongkorn University and the United Nations. He holds both UK and Thai passports. In 2008, he filed a complaint against Supachai Lorlowhakarn, accusing the NIA head of presenting a PhD thesis at Chulalongkorn with long tracts plagiarised from previously published reports, including one by Ellis. The complaints were upheld by the university, which stripped Supachai of his doctorate, but only in 2012. In the meantime, Supachai filed nine lawsuits against Ellis, including criminal defamation charges that carry a two-year prison sentence. Ellis won seven cases, and settled two more out of court. Supachai was found guilty of criminal forgery. However, cases continued right up to the Supreme Court until May 2014. Ellis says he and his family were repeatedly threatened by phone, and twice had large rocks thrown through their car window as they were driving. Supachai also filed criminal defamation charges against Erika Fry, a US journalist working for the Bangkok Post. She felt compelled to flee Thailand in 2010. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jitagawn Posted September 7, 2015 Report Share Posted September 7, 2015 This is so wrong. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted September 8, 2015 Report Share Posted September 8, 2015 Nothing wrong...TIT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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