VIDEO SHOWS CYNICAL AND CALLOUS TREATMENT OF BURMESE WOMEN – BUT WHO EXACTLY WERE THE ASSAILANTS? A video apparently showing men beating up Burmese prostitutes in Thailand is set to go viral on the net. The video provoked outrage in Thailand where it was first aired on Thai TV having been picked up from Youtube. […]
A CAUTIONARY TALE This is a story I cannot write. Or at least I cannot say where, when, and who were the victims. It could put a British family in Thailand ‘on holiday’ in more danger than they already are. But I can give you an outline and give this warning: “Be very careful about […]
-International campaign against Thailand’s seafood industry sizzles as – MAN THROWS HIMSELF INTO GULF OF THAILAND FOR STORY- Flying Sporran’s Weekend Diary Thailand’s fishing industry, particularly in the area of prawn cultivation took another massive knock today with an article on Mail Online, which boasts 105 million unique visitors a month, taking a massive swipe. […]
– GIRLS, DIAMONDS AND ROCK’N ROLL AS WHITESTONE TAKES THE BACKSEAT BABY! So who is this guy in these pictures here with a gun above and on the far left with the cigar? A rock star? A member of the Cosa Nostra? An agent for the I.R.S? No. He is another foreign property developer in […]
-PINA COLADA SALES PLUMMET IN HELSINKI!- Flying Sporran’s Weekend Diary- Actually I had never heard of Finnwatch before but I have always advocated an organisation which could watch Finns. But it now seems this organization, together with the Finns, or some of them up there in the frozen tundra, who have a liking for pineapple […]
TRAGIC ABUSE IN A THAI VILLAGE OF THE DAUGHTER A BIRMINGHAM MAN LEFT BEHIND IN THAILAND A seven-year-old girl who has allegedly been the victim of rape and multiple sexual abuse in Thailand in one of the most tragic sagas to come out of the country’s rural provinces, is the daughter of a Briton from […]
COVER UP! POLICE MUST HAVE KNOWN – BUT STILL THEY TRIED TO DISCREDIT FOREIGN VICTIM- The 32-year-old Southern Thai man accused of the rape of a 19-year-old Dutch model after her birthday party in a Thai beach resort last year had previously been convicted and jailed for MURDER! Chumpol Khaonuang, (left) from Koh Phangan, Southern […]
AGARWOOD INVESTORS SMELL SOMETHING BAD. Well they say money does not grow on trees. But of course it does, and people are investing in forests all over the place. Buy a tree and your money should grow as the tree grows. Voilà! And don’t forget the feel-good factor – you’re helping the environment (well in […]
-HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER STANDS BY HIS ATTACK ON THAI TREATMENT OF BURMESE LABOUR- THAILAND IS PRESENTING FALSE IMAGE TO GLOBAL COMMUNITY – SAYS BRITISH ‘SPY’- Hall at the FCCT Andy Hall, the British Human Rights defender, who is being sued in Thailand for criminal and civil libel for criticising a company which he claimed was […]
A meeting for those who have invested in Harlequin Property, which has received a lot of publicity on this site and more recently in the Mail On Sunday will go ahead this Saturday in Manchester. For those Britons who have put cash into Harlequin Properties in the Caribbean or in Harlequin Properties in Pattaya at […]
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.