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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Andrew Drummond is a British independent journalist and occasional television documentary maker. He is a former Fleet Street, London, journalist having worked at the Evening Standard, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, News of the World, Observer and The Times.