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 […]
Its just another blow to the FIFA the world governing body of football. The Forrmer British FA Chairman Lord Triesman has accused four members of FIFA of demanding bribes to support England’s bid to host the 2018 world cup.One of them is Worawi Makudi Thailand’s FIFA representative who said Lord Triesman wanted TV rights for […]
From ANDREW DRUMMOND, Bangkok May 12 2011 A convicted British child sexual abuser who ran a children’s charity on a rubbish dump in Cambodia has been sentenced in his absence to ten years in jail for rape. David Fletcher, 57, from Norwich, was absent from the hearing in Phnom Penh because he fled Cambodia to […]
The current conflict between Cambodia and Thailand is doing nothing for Thailand, northing for Cambodia, and nothing for ASEANWhile this issue has been on the cards for many years it appeared to have resolved itself for a while and Thais could apparently live in harmony with their neighbours, while the issue rumbled on inconsequentially in […]
Link to Daily Mail A programme by 60 Minutes in New Zealand last night suggested that the victims who died in the Downtown Inn in Chiang Mai earlier this year died from exposure to chlorpyrifos which is essentially a poison used to kill bed bugs. Chlorpyrifos is banned in many countries and in any case should […]
From ANDREW DRUMMONDBangkokMay 6 2011 Edinburgh born Anthony Prestidge, best known as ‘Scots Tony’, wanted in Britain for armed robbery and in Australia for murder has been extradited to Australia for trial.Prestidge, more than six years ago confessed to me that he killed his brother in law Andy Arthur Ball in Perth, and at the time said […]
From ANDREW DRUMMOND,BANGKOKMAY 6 2011 Britain’s secretive Financial Services Authority have begun operations in Bangkok in a bid to rack up their operations against international boiler rooms a few notches.A team has been in the capital for the last week engaged in discussions with officers at the Crime Suppression Division and counterparts in other Embassies […]
From ANDREW DRUMMOND, Bangkok Welfare officials in Thailand have interviewed two Irish children aged 12 and 9, who were allegedly thrown down a well, while their father was away on a business trip and being robbed of his property. How the Daily Mail May 2 2011 ran with the story Police in Chalong, Phuket, interviewed […]
‘We have been advised by the police to move location every three days’ FROM ANDREW DRUMMOND, SURAT THANI, THAILAND May 1st 2011 Two children of an Irish businessman were thrown into a well while his housekeeper working with ‘organised criminals’ set about to defraud him of his mansion and six other houses on the Thai island […]
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.