Thai Prime Minister – Dissolves Parliament
(pic: Students at Assumption college joined the protest from behind school gates) Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra dissolved parliament today as tens of thousands of ant-government protesters converged on Government House in Bangkok in the ‘protest to end all protests’. Yingluck who had offered to hold a referendum finally gave into pressure as the city […]
PATTAYA TIMES NEWSPAPER MADE UP ITS NEWS OUT OF SPITE – COURT TOLD
BRITISH JOURNALIST BEGINS RETALIATION IN LIBEL COURT A Thai English language newspaper deliberately falsified news to spite a British journalist who was hot on the trial of its directors and investigating complaints against them in Thailand, a court heard today. On the front page of their website they printed that British investigative journalist Andrew Drummond, […]
GUNS AND ROSE ON KOH SAMUI
Fake Scots lawyer says he has bought gun to deal with the ‘girls’. Well of course this is getting a little silly now. Down in Koh Samui our fake lawyer Brian Goudie is now posting on Facebook that he has acquired a gun for 85,000 baht with his work permit and ‘yellow book’ and is […]
BRITISH EMBASSY PAYS FOR ‘RAILROADED ROUGH JUSTICE’ –
ARE THE CHILD ABUSE NGOs IN CAMBODIA STEPPING OVER THE LINE? -Or is everybody accused of child sexual abuse a lying pervert only fit for the scaffold? A report commissioned by the British Embassy records how a Briton convicted and sentenced to seven years jail in Cambodia for child sexual abuse was given absolutely no […]
FATHER’S FURY AS PAEDO’S LAWYER PUTS ‘TINY TOT’ IMAGE ON INTERNET
A British electrical engineer based in China has been shocked to find pictures of his five month old daughter on an internet flicker account of another Briton associated with child sexual abusers. Yorkshire born Ally Cooper said he was horrified at the action of Brian Goudie, 47, from Falkirk adding: “This is extremely unnerving…the guy […]
EXCLUSIVE – BANGKOK BOILER ROOMS – THE MONEY TRAIL – HOW IT WAS LOST
IT COULD HAVE BEEN FOLLOWED ON A MOONLESS NIGHT – WAS THERE NO WILL? When Thai Police accompanied by Australian Federal Police and the FBI raided the offices of the Brinton Group in Bangkok City Tower way back in July 2001 the move was heralded as a breakthrough in the fight against international fraud – […]
WHAT’S COMING UP ON ANDREW-DRUMMOND.COM
Just as the protesters are doing today I am taking a break for the King’s Birthday which of course is also Father’s Day in Thailand. This is the time when the kids prostrate themselves in front of you, tell you they will love you forever and thank you for your words of wisdom over the […]
The answer is democracy?
This week the guest columnist on Flying Sporran’s Weekend Diary is Mangus Evans Well that was a busy week, but while the riots have been raging in central Bangkok I can’t help but notice that some people are taking all this rather personally. I don’t mean the guys out there on the streets throwing objects […]
Peace In Our Time – Not Yet But Demonstrators Cool Down
Anti-government protesters were treated to guided tours of the Metropolitan Police Headquarters in Bangkok today after they disarmed themselves and police put down their tear gas guns and water cannons. One of the protest leaders Thavorn Senniam announced the invasion as a triumph. But police overnight had announced they would declare an ‘open house’ today. […]
BATTLE FOR BANGKOK – WARRANT FOR HIGH TREASON ISSUED – SHOTS FIRED
WHILE ARMY WAITS IN THE WINGS A warrant for the capital offence of high treason was issued last night against Bangkok protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban as anti-government protesters besieged Government House and the Metropolitan Police Headquarters in Bangkok. As anti-government protesters approached barriers at the police headquarters in Bangkok with a back hoe and bulldozer […]
