WILL JUSTICE PREVAIL IN THAILAND AGAINST THESE PROPERTY FRAUDSTERS? – Foreigners, who arrived in Thailand to find that the deeds to the homes they had bought in Pattaya had been hawked to a Thai bank for a loan by the developer, will protest tomorrow at the local office of the Attorney General. After banging their […]
He’s been described as a playboy living the life of luxury in the sun at the age of 25. But the story of Gary McNeish, who with his colleague Chris Niebel from Manchester has been working phone scams, seems the saddest story of the week to me. Isn’t life great – Gary seems to be […]
Ok – I just like the picture. Not a gay male attendant in sight and all the female ones dressed in shorts similar to the ones I potter around the garden in. A Flying Sporran Chauvanistic Travel Advisory. From February next yeart you will be able to fly to Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) from […]
CHARTS SHOW RECKLESS ABANDON -They cold call you at your office or home and they give the impression they are the ‘bees knees’ in the financial business and will even warn you against rogue traders. But Bangkok’s ‘Independent Financial Advisors’ are giving international finance, well, a bad name, and expats – and it is expats […]
The effrontery of it all! Drew Noyes, the American businessman first exposed for fraudulent dealings by the American newspaper the Wilmington Morning Star and more recently for other matters on this site, will tell a court tomorrow (Monday) that he has been libeled in a picture caption which read ‘Going to Jail’. He claims the […]
-Exclusive to Guardian readers only though, where a plethora of penile amputations in Thailand has all got something to do with schadenfreude- zzzzzzz! Flying Sporran’s Weekend Diary- Sometimes I love the Guardian – or Manchester Guardian as I prefer to call it. I have written for it many times, more so in the distant past […]
Just when the tourism woes of the Thai province of Krabi seemed to have died down, the video ‘Evil Man in Krabi’ having been put to the back of most people’s minds, another blow comes from the Sun. Britain’s biggest selling daily has run a story about a machete attack on a young British couple there. Actually […]
-The Football Fund, Financial Advisors, and Newspaper Ethics- Football Fund CEO now runs dry cleaners – And client who lost US$60,000 to Bangkok ‘financial advisor’ blamed for having ‘smallmanitus’ Remember ‘The Football Fund’? This was a financial fund set up to make loads of cash out of football and launched with a spectacular fanfare in […]
ESSEX DECORATOR DISPUTED BILL EVENING STANDARD (Paul Ayling with mother Anita) A 48-year-old Briton has died in hospital in Britain after over a year on life support after being attacked in a Thai beach resort. Paul Ayling, from Thorpe Bay, Essex, had been attacked in Hua Hin, 140 miles south of Bangkok . The British […]
‘Aw haud yer whisht – an gie us yon bottle ae ‘Blaand’. If there’s one thing Scots can do its to distill a good whisky, and beer too if you like Belhaven’s. But there has been a new development in my homeland which is causing me concern – and its going to be stacked on the shelves […]
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.