(updated 29/04) AN AMERICAN HAS BEEN TAKEN TO HAVE HIS SOUL CLEANSED – AND HIS FRIENDS ARE WORRIED WITLESS! It’s the ultimate nightmare in Thailand just one below annoying the local mafia. An American has gone missing from his home in Jomtien, Chonburi – and a security guard has reported that the he saw the […]
And six so far this year. Ou Virak – the President of the Cambodian Centre for Human rights describes today as a ‘period of closer Thai Cambodian’relations’. That’s hard to believe from the jingoistic and nationalistic stances taken by both Thailand and Cambodia over the Preah Vihear temple dispute. And even harder to believe when […]
(Thanks to a wire service report) MUM’S THE WORD AND THE PROBLEM WILL GO AWAY- (Pic: No batteries! So if this man’s not fit- its f**ked’ Former P.M . – Abhisit) It’s happened again. And it will happen again. Thailand was sold a pup and it now has egg on its face but nobody is […]
CORONERS IN UK TOLD FOREIGN OFFICE OFFICIALS THEY MUST GIVE STRONGER WARNINGS TO TOURISTS- A British mother who lost her 19-year-old son in one of Thailand’s numerous coach crashes is flying out to ensure justice for her child who was due to study economic at Manchester University. Rachel Cooper, from Brighton, East Sussex, will attend […]
-DREW NOYES SAYS SNITCH ON FOREIGN CRIMINALS ON MY VERY OWN CSD WEBSITE- WE WERE JOKING – HE IS SERIOUS! So why does this site hide behind weebly.com? Drew Noyes – an American on trial in Thailand charged with extortion is now openly inviting foreigners in Thailand to report crimes to him through a new […]
Doing crime in Thailand? Turn yourself in to the country’s most famous American. Drew Noyes bagged ‘blow job’ and ‘sex tourism’ internet domains and ripped off a Thai Government investment website. Now it is the turn of Thailand’s Crime Suppression Division – An American with a fraud judgment against him in the United States and […]
GENTLE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE V UGLY OGRES? WHAT NEXT? (Picture-Ye Myint Aung – handsome?) If, like me, you believe that sheer greed is causing western countries to throw money into Burma and that perhaps they should hang on to establish the smoke and mirrors of this beleaguered country first – then perhaps you might want to […]
Organised criminal activities in East Asia and the Pacific could not only destabalise vulnerable societies but also create world health and environmental problems, according to a United Nations report out today. A variety of mafia organisations, often working with authorities, are grossing an estimated US$90 billion a year equal to twice the GDP of Burma, […]
-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 […]
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.