WELL THAT’S FOR A FEW MINUTES ONLY I HOPE – THEN WE WILL BE BACK ON FORM IN A NEW FORMAT We hope you will like it. I have had approaches from ‘website flippers’ offering to buy the site. We have not of course agreed, but if they do not have Andrew Drummond on the […]
-IS HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF? While western businesses continue to move into Myanmar (Burma) for the country’s rich pickings, relatives of victims of the Nazi holocaust have come out with a statement of condemnation of the treatment of the Rohingya. They point out that even Burma’s democracy movement has largely been silent on the issue. This […]
MUM- EMOTIONAL BUT HAPPY AND RELIEVED The Thai Supreme Court has come down in favour of a 62-year-old mum from Hereford who has been fighting for eight years to have her son’s killer jailed for murder. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office have informed Mrs Yvonne Hart, of Belmont, Hereford, that the Supreme Court has confirmed […]
-EVEN HIS LAWYERS MAY BE CHUCKLING AT THIS ONE- Just when I was beginning to lose count of the cases, Drew Noyes, the founder of the ailing Pattaya Times Media Corporation, is now suing an internet forum in Thailand for suggesting that he and fellow phony lawyer Brian Goudie might be gay. According to records […]
PLUS MORE AWARDS FOR PATTAYA TIMES FOUNDER- (Pic: Self appreciation society – Drew Noyes currently avoiding a US$72,000 US judgement for bogus share dealing gets an award from Niels Colov, convicted pimp and former Copenhagen gangster) American Drew Noyes the much maligned founder of the Pattaya Times newspaper, who is on trial in Pattaya with […]
‘BUT IT’S A CAT AND MOUSE GAME!’ Flying Sporran’s Showbiz Diary Just thought I would let the Rihanna sensation in Thailand calm down a bit before adding my twopence. I have seen so much of her rear in the last few days I am convinced this is possibly the media way to go. If you […]
AMAZINGLY HE PLEADED GUILTY AND WAS SENTENCED TO A TERM HE HAS SO FAR NEVER HAD TO SERVE- In a remarkable case of seemingly misplaced justice in Thailand a Thai man who stabbed a British tourist to death in a fit of jealous rage today remains free despite pleading guilty at his trial and being […]
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MILLER WALKS! -American Greg Miller whose mother allegedly paid fake lawyer Brian Goudie US$300,000 to get out of jail on child sexual abuse charges has been released from Nong Plalai Prison on bail, after a case against him was dismissed. Legal charges were comparatively minor compared to Goudie’s estimate. He may have exaggerated. Miller’s bail […]
INVISIBLE DIPLOMAT STINGS COUNTRY FOLK- In a sting which is believed to have netted between ten and twenty million Thai baht scores of people from Isaan have been turning up at the British Embassy in Bangkok for an interview which will guarantee them a job at a hotel in London. While the sting might have […]
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.