-A VERY ODD EXCHANGE WITH A PROPERTY DEVELOPER ON THAILAND’S EASTERN SEABOARD- Seems buying property on the eastern seaboard of Thailand is getting easier by the day now – You can even pay your deposit through PayPal. But one customer got alarmed having put down US$1000 for an off plan condo being built by a […]
-A CHILLING AFFECT!- “Prosecution strikes at the very core of efforts by human rights defenders to end pervasive abuses of workers !in Thailand’s export industry.” (PIC:Andy Hall with Aung San Suu Kyi. Last year he took her on an unofficial trip to see Burmese workers in Mahachai on the Gulf of Thailand outside Bangkok.) In […]
How can I let the death of former British Premier Margaret Thatcher pass without a word? Well easily actually. But I thought at least I would congratulate Thai TV Channel 5 for using not a picture of Maggie but a picture of Meryl Streep, who acted the part of Maggie Thatcher in the film ‘Iron […]
TINNED PINEAPPLE MAN MAY OPEN CAN OF WORMS! A British human rights activist yesterday pledged that he would go to jail if need be to defend Burmese workers in Thailand whom he says are being abused producing goods for shops in Britain and Europe and the United States. Following the issue of criminal and civil […]
POOR WORKING CONDITIONS, UNLAWFULLY LOW WAGES, CONFISCATION OF OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS, USE OF CHILD LABOUR, EXCESSIVE OVERTIME – CLAIMS* The following statement is issued by Finnwatch, a Finnish non-profit organisation (www.finnwatch.org), with regard to Briton Mr Andy Hall’s court hearing brought by Natural Fruit Company in Thailand at Bangkok South Criminal Court today, April Fool’s Day, […]
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.