Emma Talbot and Rose McDermott are on the last leg of their Asian backpacking adventure, the next university term is just weeks away. The picturesque fishing village of Baan Chailai, on the Gulf of Thailand, is the perfect spot to chill out. Miles from the infamous Full Moon Beach parties it still has a thriving bar scene with locals and visitors alike eager to show the girls a good time. The key is knowing who to trust. Local police chief Chatri Aromanadee and businessman Daeng Khasajamsarun have known each other since childhood. The secrets they share about the death of two young women...

On land or at sea the vortex is mesmerising but lethal. Andy Duncan joins an investment firm in Hong Kong and quickly discovers that the same forces apply in business. The lure of power, money and status blurs moral boundaries and for those who covet the immense rewards on offer, one illicit act can lead to another, drawing them into a spiral of deception. Duncan frames a junior clerk to save the career of a high-flying investment manager and is rewarded with rapid promotion. Transferred to the firm's new Bangkok office, he is quickly embroiled in a corporate scandal and the disappearance of...

Paul Murphy desperately wants to be a big shot but the pursuit of fortune often comes with a heavy price. For Paul, it was the life of his best friend and partner, Tommy, apparently murdered for encroaching on a local drug gang's turf. Paul, a lowly hospital porter, fearful that he'll be next, flees to Thailand to lay low while reconnecting with Tommy's supplier in Pattaya. He meets the enchanting Yim and, veering from his intended plan, starts to rebuild his life running a chain of bars. Sonthi, a local heavy, offers protection for a price and the corrupt Mongkut ensures that the police will...

In April 1981, ex-Liverpool manager Bill Shankly was interviewed by Shelley Rodhe on Granada TV. Alongside him in the studio was former Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Shankly told the audience, "Somebody said: 'Football's a matter of life and death to you.' I said, 'Listen it's more important than that.'" Coldharbour Town has climbed from the lower divisions of English football, finally reaching the Premier League under the careful stewardship of local businessman, Jack Enright. After just one season, it's clear that even survival will require more cash than Enright is willing, or able to...

Thailand is on the verge of economic and social meltdown. Bangkok has ground to a halt as protesters, oblivious to a tumbling stock market and a currency in free fall, block major intersections and picket government buildings, daubing the walls with their own blood. They're disillusioned by a system designed only to line the pockets of the rich and powerful. As the country lurches from one crisis to another, there is only one man who can deliver Thailand from anarchy. To the public, Narong Sunarawani is a patriot and a hugely successful businessman. Covertly he is also head of Thailand's most...

Now a short film directed by Richie Moore Twenty-three years old, with a first class honours degree and forty-eight grand in student loans, Emily Davidson's sick and tired of being told she's part of the 'Snowflake Generation, ' accused of having unrealistic expectations and an over-inflated sense of their own importance. All Emily wants is a chance and she knows she has to strive to get it. There's no easy route into political journalism - she has to make a splash. Emily sees a world of senseless wars, western democracy in crisis, the re-emergence of the far right. The rich get richer, the...