Flying Sporran’s Diary An impromptu bravery award goes out today to John Sparks of Channel 4 TV News in the UK. While foreign journalists have already been attacked and insulted John Sparks was brave enough to take the stage and interview Dr.Seri Wongmontha in front of the mob. ‘Yingluck Shinawatra has been democratically elected. Why […]
PROTESTERS CLOSE DOWN THAI CAPITAL Seven hours into the shutdown of the Thai capital Bangkok Prime Minister Yingluck Shinwatra today was reported to have called for talks with protesters to discuss reform proposals and a delay to the election. With the capital choked, and several ministries and the Stock Exchange either closed or about to […]
GOING DOWN THE BIO-FUEL ROAD ROAD – QUESTIONABLE FOREIGNERS AND CAMBODIAN OFFICIALS Officers of Cambodia’s Anti-Corruption Unit have arrested a lawyer and a provincial official allegedly involved in a biofuel scam promoted by ‘cash for questions’ Peer Lord Laird. Greg Fryett (left) Lord Laird (right) The move follows the arrest of British businessman Greg Fryett, […]
Feeling rich? Well you could be in for a shock the next time you check your bank balance. Card skimmers are prolific in Thailand and although there have been multiple arrests of foreigners – often Middle Eastern – if you are skimmed and scammed here you may never get your money back. The courts […]
VIDEO: SEVEN MONTHS ON AFTER A RANDOM BAR SHOOTING IN CHIANG MAI JUSTICE AND AID SOUGHT FOR VICTIM Paralysed after a random bar shooting in Chiang Mai carried out by a Thai man who came back with a gun after losing face, justice is still being sought for Canadian Nic Brown, from Vancouver, an English […]
Our favourite re-assuring and credible American Drew Noyes is to go to trial on February 4th for cheating a Dutch businessman and film producer out of 2.5 million baht. Noyes,57, is being taken to court along with Wanrapa Boonsu, and PAPPA Co Ltd., with misappropriating the cash from Theo van der Schaaf. van der Schaaf, […]
Tyson (right) and Rujiwan Pathumtavaphibal David Tyson, the rather effete conman exposed here some time ago for promoting a dodgy shopping card in Pattaya through the Pattaya People Media Corporation, is still conning his way around the world. Have taken people for more than a few bucks in Thailand he went on to do the same […]
The following briefing by Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra was tonight issued to the Diplomatic Corps and Foreign Correspondents and international organisations by the News Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs before the start of the Bangkok shutdown. It is followed by the MFA chronology of events (unnofficial translation) which has preceded the current volatile […]
Coming soon Andrew-Drummond.Com ‘I like young girls. My girls’s 19, but she’s legal. How old is yours?’ Bangkok’s most famous foreign ‘lawyer’ talks OF perverts in the Land of Smiles – But what is he putting his hands up to in this blurry video frame? Well here’s a clue. It’s not the girl. She […]
PATTAYA POLICE MUST RESPOND The Technical Crime Suppression Division have ordered police in Pattaya to investigate a complaint by a Thai woman against a Scotsman whose pictures of her having sex with him when he was her boss have been put on the internet. At the centre of the scandal is Brian Goudie, formerly Brian […]
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.