It’s been a hell of a year and the judges have really been scratching their heads with the motley collection on offer for this year’s awards. There are of course some of the old contenders still there who unbelievably just keep popping up again and again. But there have been some delightful new arrivals on […]
HARLEQUIN RAN ‘SYSTEMATIC FRAUD’ – CLAIMS THEIR ACCOUNTANT (Picture: David Ames) – A company run by a former bankrupt British double glazing salesman responsible for selling off plan developments on Thailand’s eastern seaboard is finally going to be grilled in the High Court in London over its activities. The boss of Harlequin, Essex businessman David […]
Well a very Merry Christmas to all readers of this site and best wishes for a great New Year. I have been taking a wee break during the festive season. Normal abnormal service will resume shortly Meanwhile there’s still one more day to get Santa Claus to send your kids a special video message […]
– JUST WHEN LAOS WAS GETTING USER FRIENDLY – MAGSAYSAY WINNER IS TRUCKED OFF. Laos has recently joined the ‘to do’ list of young travellers. Vang Vieng the world’s tubing capital was getting hotter than the Full Moon parties on Koh Phangan, Thailand. So here is a timely reminder to travellers that they are travelling […]
U.N. OUTRAGE AS FORMER GANGSTER GETS FAKE UNESCO CROSS AND CERTIFICATE OF HONOUR! (Picture: Niels Colov centre in Copenhagen in the bad old days) The head of Pattaya City’s Foreign Police Volunteers and boss of Pattaya People newspaper, radio and television, has been honoured in a FAKE United Nations medal and certificate SCAM. Two Pattaya […]
FIRED! – SUPREMO OF PATTAYA TIMES GAGGED IN CUPID’S CITY OF LOVE (Picture -advert for Noyes’ Cupid Club in Pattaya. The picture was stolen. See note at end of story*) In a shock move the Chief Editor of the Pattaya Times American Drew Noyes has fired his Thai publisher. And he has taken an advert […]
-THAIS TELL GERMAN TO FICK OFF! – Flying Sporran’s Weekend Diary- I was a little startled to see at the weekend a protest by Thais against a German national who stabbed to death a Labrador belonging to a Thai Royal Navy Chief Petty Officer. The German national claimed that the unleashed Labrador, or Golden Retriever […]
-FOUR CASES IN ONE DAY FOR PATTAYA MEDIA MOGUL – AND THEN TWO MORE- Family man Drew Noyes – the controversial boss of a ‘law’ company in Pattaya called P.A.P.P.A is being sued for child support in Chonburi Provincial Court. A case against Noyes, 56, also Chief Editor of the Pattaya Times and self professed […]
– AMERICAN CHIEF EDITOR AND ‘LIBEL EXPERT’ CLAIMS HIS STAFF BETRAYED HIM- WAS IT THE VEGETARIAN FOOD WRITER,THE BRAZILIAN SNAPPER OR REALLY THE CHIEF EDITOR AFTER ALL? SURELY NOT THE GAY ENGLISH VICAR IN THIS CLASSIC PATTAYA WHODUNNIT? (Picture -U.S. Ambassador to Thailand with Drew Noyes) The chief editor of an English language newspaper in […]
DREW NOYES DEFAMED SEASONAL SANTA – claim. (Photo Santa Andre Machielsen) -American ‘businessman’ Drew Noyes defamed a seasonal Santa Claus by putting a statement on the net describing him as a drugs dealer, a libel court heard in Pattaya today. Hearing that the Pattaya City Expat Clubs talked about putting an internet warning about him, […]
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.