From Andrew Drummond, Labuan, Sabah, North BorneoJune 6 2011He has been described as ‘a charmer’ and a ‘gentleman and a scholar’ but if David Elias had ever had those attributes they did not come to the fore during his last years commuting around the world from this tiny island off the coast of North Borneo.David Elias […]
From ANDREW DRUMMONDBangkok, May 30 2011 Thai police today launched a murder enquiry into the death of a Briton on a Thai holiday island after those who conducted a local post mortem covered up his the cause of his death and ruled that he had died by drowning.Police on the island of Koh Samui ruled that […]
Oh dear. Thaksin Shinawatra’s easy on the eye younger sister Yingluck – a Prime Minister in waiting if you believe the polls – seems to be offering clients of her/Thaksin’s property company SC Assets – a terninal solution to their problems.Well we all have a rough idea how many innocent people were ‘injudicially killed’ during her brother’s ‘War […]
From ANDREW DRUMMOND,Bangkok, May 28 2011It was greeted with the comments ‘ The end of the world is coming’ , ‘Jesus Wept’ and ‘I might cry’ but today it looks like Mail Online, the net version of the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers in Britain is tipped now to become the world’s most […]
From ANDREW DRUMMONDBangkok, May 23 2011PLAYING THE COURTS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA – BRIBES AT DAWN IN BALI Death threats, fraud and corruption, Point Piper in Sydney harbour is once again connected with controversy, but this time involving the men who built Australia’s most expensive house. Now a case in Indonesia is one of several which […]
-IF THERE ARE ANY LAWYERS AND POLICE INVOLVED THEY SHOULD BE ARRESTED- -FROM ANDREW DRUMMOND Royal Thai Police HQ, Bangkok MAY 18 2011- Police in the Thai capital Bangkok today promised ‘transparency’ in an investigation into a massive fraud committed on an Irish businessman on the holiday island of Phuket – a holiday destination which is increasingly […]
FROM ANDREW DRUMMONDBangkok May 17 2011 A Thai woman who won her section of the television show ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ is now better known in Britain than Thaksin Shinawatra. Yingluck does not get a look in.Wachiraporn Tirpak’s name is now on everybody’s lips as ‘Watching Raw Porn’, which is how comedian Mike McIntyre pronounced it […]
FROM ANDREW DRUMMOND, BANGKOK,May 15 2011 Thai police have found themselves a new role in Pattaya, it seems. They are now giving away Knighthoods, not only to themselves, but also to local foreigners, one of whom is clawing his way up the social strata after an interesting earlier career in Copenhagen’s red light district.Arise Pattaya Police […]
From ANDREW DRUMMOND, BANGKOKMay 13 2010NEWS & COMMENT A coroner in England will investigate the deaths of British couple who died in a Chiang Mai hotel where a series of tourists have been taken ill and died in what Thai authorities claim is ‘coincidental’ or alternatively a run of ‘bad luck’.After press conference given by […]
FROM ANDREW DRUMMONDBangkok, May 12 2011I just could not believe it. The Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, or perhaps best known as Fergie was in Thailand during the wedding of Kate Middleton and Prince William. Well I knew that, but did not know whether it was Phuket or Koh Samui, not necessarily my destinations of choice.I had severals […]
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.