From ANDREW DRUMMONDBangkok, May 23 2011PLAYING THE COURTS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA – BRIBES AT DAWN IN BALI Death threats, fraud and corruption, Point Piper in Sydney harbour is once again connected with controversy, but this time involving the men who built Australia’s most expensive house. Now a case in Indonesia is one of several which […]
-IF THERE ARE ANY LAWYERS AND POLICE INVOLVED THEY SHOULD BE ARRESTED- -FROM ANDREW DRUMMOND Royal Thai Police HQ, Bangkok MAY 18 2011- Police in the Thai capital Bangkok today promised ‘transparency’ in an investigation into a massive fraud committed on an Irish businessman on the holiday island of Phuket – a holiday destination which is increasingly […]
FROM ANDREW DRUMMONDBangkok May 17 2011 A Thai woman who won her section of the television show ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ is now better known in Britain than Thaksin Shinawatra. Yingluck does not get a look in.Wachiraporn Tirpak’s name is now on everybody’s lips as ‘Watching Raw Porn’, which is how comedian Mike McIntyre pronounced it […]
FROM ANDREW DRUMMOND, BANGKOK,May 15 2011 Thai police have found themselves a new role in Pattaya, it seems. They are now giving away Knighthoods, not only to themselves, but also to local foreigners, one of whom is clawing his way up the social strata after an interesting earlier career in Copenhagen’s red light district.Arise Pattaya Police […]
From ANDREW DRUMMOND, BANGKOKMay 13 2010NEWS & COMMENT A coroner in England will investigate the deaths of British couple who died in a Chiang Mai hotel where a series of tourists have been taken ill and died in what Thai authorities claim is ‘coincidental’ or alternatively a run of ‘bad luck’.After press conference given by […]
FROM ANDREW DRUMMONDBangkok, May 12 2011I just could not believe it. The Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, or perhaps best known as Fergie was in Thailand during the wedding of Kate Middleton and Prince William. Well I knew that, but did not know whether it was Phuket or Koh Samui, not necessarily my destinations of choice.I had severals […]
Its just another blow to the FIFA the world governing body of football. The Forrmer British FA Chairman Lord Triesman has accused four members of FIFA of demanding bribes to support England’s bid to host the 2018 world cup.One of them is Worawi Makudi Thailand’s FIFA representative who said Lord Triesman wanted TV rights for […]
From ANDREW DRUMMOND, Bangkok May 12 2011 A convicted British child sexual abuser who ran a children’s charity on a rubbish dump in Cambodia has been sentenced in his absence to ten years in jail for rape. David Fletcher, 57, from Norwich, was absent from the hearing in Phnom Penh because he fled Cambodia to […]
The current conflict between Cambodia and Thailand is doing nothing for Thailand, northing for Cambodia, and nothing for ASEANWhile this issue has been on the cards for many years it appeared to have resolved itself for a while and Thais could apparently live in harmony with their neighbours, while the issue rumbled on inconsequentially in […]
Link to Daily Mail A programme by 60 Minutes in New Zealand last night suggested that the victims who died in the Downtown Inn in Chiang Mai earlier this year died from exposure to chlorpyrifos which is essentially a poison used to kill bed bugs. Chlorpyrifos is banned in many countries and in any case should […]
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.