July 1997
Rebel Who Caught Pol Pot
THE TIMES WEDNESDAY JULY 30 1997Andrew Drummond on his old friend Nate Thayer, who found Cambodia’s butcherLast Friday, Nate Thayer achieved every journalist’s dream when he scooped the world by meeting, and obtaining footage of, Pol Pot.By Monday, he was going through every journalist’s nightmare ‘ holed up in a Bangkok hotel, struggling to write […]
A Tale Of Two Cities
Pattaya’ Perfect DilemmaAndrew Drummond for The Nation, BangkokMarch 30th 1997Pattaya’s Perfect DilemmaHoteliers, tourist authority and city officials, a newspaper publisher, and local politicians last week invited foreign journalists based in Thailand down to the resort of Pattaya to promote the resort and air their complaints of unfair press reporting.The city regularly appears in foreign newspapers […]
A Tale Of Two Cities
Pattaya’ Perfect DilemmaAndrew Drummond for The Nation, BangkokMarch 30th 1997Pattaya’s Perfect DilemmaHoteliers, tourist authority and city officials, a newspaper publisher, and local politicians last week invited foreign journalists based in Thailand down to the resort of Pattaya to promote the resort and air their complaints of unfair press reporting.The city regularly appears in foreign newspapers […]
