From ANDREW DRUMMOND,Bangkok, July 12 2011 If you live anywhere else but Chiang Mai you may not know but this month the magazine Citylife celebrates its 20th birthday. It would be totally remiss if I did not wish them well here.Alongside the dogged Phuketwan online news site, Citylife is one of my favourite reads. It does […]
From ANDREW DRUMMOND,Bangkok August 22 2011His children are in government care in Britain and his land has all but already been gobbled up by his Thai wife. Legendary turkey farmer Joe Stanyer, who used to supply Thailand’s best hotels with their Christmas bird, has now been told that the last patch of land he has […]
From ANDREW DRUMMOND Singapore, August 5 2011 Evening Standard, Daily Mail, Metro, Sun, Independent, Pictures: Andrew Chant A three year old British girl has plunged to her death from a high rise block in Singapore. Today the parents were in a state of grief. The 3-yr-old girl, who has not been named fell from on […]
From ANDREW DRUMMOND, BangkokJuly 29 2011Sunday Mirror (a very odd edit)A British computer engineer, who was left to languish in a Thai jail, naked, emaciated, chained to the bars and close to death after suffering a mental breakdown, was deported to Britain early today (SAT).Richard Hewitt, 49, had been arrested wandering incoherently in the Thai […]
From ANDREW DRUMMONDBangkok, July 23 2011 Daily Mail Sunday Express BBC Wales British police have asked the Department of Special Investigations to DNA test a Thai University professor to rule him out of an investigation into who killed and raped a young Welsh university graduate in Chiang Mai. Officers of Dyfed-Powys Police in Mid-Wales, […]
‘MAKE THAI WIFE WATCH THE VIDEO OF HER HUSBAND’S BEHEADING!’ ORDERs NoW Exec NEWS OF THE WORLD EMPLOYS GANGLAND BOSS TO SET UP CORONATION STAR WITH COCAINE These are two headlines I guess I could have got round to writing in relation to the News of the World’s activities which I have encountered in South East Asia. There […]
From Andrew DrummondBangkok, July 4 2011 More than ten years have passed and the sound and picture are fuzzy. But a video is now doing the rounds which a judge refused allowance to be shown in a Thai court. The video records the very odd arrest of a Briton on a drugs charge in Pattaya, Thailand. Lawyers for Kevin Quill, who […]
From Andrew Drummond,Bangkok July 3 2011A British businessman will learn this week if he is to go to jail in Vietnam at the behest of Irish billionaire millionaire Patrick McKillen – the owner of showcase property worldwide. Peter Laking, 60, from Midhurst, Sussex, will be flown from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi on Wednesday to hear […]
From Andrew DrummondJuly 2nd 2010 It went almost unnoticed but the decision last Sunday by a judge in the predominantly islamic state Terengganu state of Malaysia to sentence Shivaun Orton to just 14 months in jail has delighted not only her family and friends but also the top executive of a major US oil company.Shivaun Orton was […]
Not so many foreigners know this but recently in the Thai vernacular press and on television there were headline stories about how some American had kidnapped a child from outside a school in Bangkok and had used ‘criminal type’ figures to help him.The child’s mother and her new lover, a tuk-tuk driver, said that they were […]
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.