The Thai Government has now admitted what we have known all along. It is going to strictly control the foreign media in Thailand and those journalists guilty of ‘inaccurate reporting’ will have their visas revoked and possibly much more. Inside Khun Sa’s camp with a typewriter The military led government has introduced new visa laws […]
AN ‘INSULT TO MY DIGNITY’ SAID DREW NOYES – AS THAI COURT SIDES WITH MAN WITH A 25 YEAR HISTORY OF DISHONESTY One of the ‘libelous pictures – Noyes left. Goudie right The criminal court in Pattaya today jailed an American schoolteacher for a year for libeling Drew Walter Noyes, an American who set up […]
‘OH GOD, TAKE US AWAY FROM THIS COUNTRY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE’ A BBC journalist has blagged his way into the Immigration Detention Centre in Bangkok to broadcast a scathing report on Thailand which he says welcomes tourists but refuses to help anyone seeking refuge. The report by Producer-reporter Chris Rogers was broadcast yestersay and […]
FAKE LAWYER HOPES AMERICANS WILL BELIEVE HIS CONNECTIONS TO ROYALTY On run with a warrant out for his arrest for extortion in Thailand Drew Noyes, 60, has changed his Facebook profile to show himself hobnobbing with Thai Royalty, a former US Ambassador to Thailand, and an Immigration Police Colonel. This may by a ruse by […]
UNFORTUNATELY HE’S KEEPING IT TO HIMSELF! I’m confused. I have just seen an unbeatable offer on the net – and I need advice. The New Nordic Company – ‘live next to a Thai Princess’ – is offering old aged pensioners a 10 per cent a year return on their property investments with it in Pattaya, […]
MORE RUMBLINGS IN THE UK The news that tourist deaths in Thailand have risen 54 per cent in a year is perhaps surprising. But more surprising is the fact that the statistics were released. With apologies to Don Wright of the Miami News – this cartoon was originally directed at Miami and south Florida after […]
MAN CONVICTED OF VICIOUS ASSAULT ON ENGLISH SCHOOL-TEACHER SELLS UP ON APPEAL Sean Tinsley, (left) the visa agent convicted of assaulting the Head of English at an International School in Pattaya, on Thailand’s eastern seaboard, has been busy packing his belongings while on bail appealing to the Supreme Court. Tinsley was found guilty at […]
BUT IT TOOK A YEAR TO RULE EVEN THE SUMMONS WAS ILLEGAL! Another case brought by Drew Walter Noyes, the former publisher of the Pattaya Times, who was convicted of extortion before fleeing on bail to the United States, was today thrown out by the Pattaya Court. . The judge ruled that the summons against […]
AND WHO WILL BE HIS NEXT CONQUEST IN THE THAI RESORT OF PATTAYA? This week a reader sent me in some notes from the private diaries of, he claims, a well-known fraudster and seemingly sexual abuser of women who has been highlighted several times on this site. As I am unable to confirm their veracity […]
‘NO!’ SAY US IMMIGRATION OFFICIALS The path of love for our famous American con man Drew Noyes, now in the United States having fled bail while appealing against a conviction and two year prison sentence for extortion, appears to have hit a brick wall. Ensconced back in Wilmington, North Carolina, where he was first exposed […]
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.