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Newspaper You Can Trust Would Not Say Boo To A Goose (03/09)

THOUSANDS OF IDIOTS DETECTED Blog only Knock! Knock!  Anybody there?They don’t get it do they. The total combined intellect of the Bangkok Post has not yet cottoned on to the fact that the GT-200 is a total hoax, as are the Sniffex, ADE651, and Alpha 6 bomb/drugs/ insurgent detectors which Thailand has bought by the cart-load. I […]

British Banker Ambushed By Gunmen – Two Dead

From Andrew Drummond, Bangkok, Feb 2 2009 An elderly Briton, who described himself as a retired banker, said he ran down two teenagers killing them both when they ambushed him with a gun on the island of Cebu in the Philippines, police said today. In a bid to protect his 28-yr-old Filipina wife Juriza, and […]

Ouch! First Salvo In Pattaya Newspaper War?

BUT TRUCE NOW DECLARED!Blog Only(UPDATED July 2010)Pattaya Times accused Pattaya People boss of involvement in ‘gold share scam’ – then ‘withdraws’ allegation.Pattaya Daily News publishes link to ‘criminal record’ of Pattaya People boss – then withdraws link. The first shots have been be fired in a Pattaya newspaper war.  A new-comer on the scene, ‘The Pattaya Times’ engineered by an […]

Thailand Hides Weapon Of Mass Destruction

Blog onlyToday a pink and red faced son William Matthew Drummond, younger brother to Annie 2 years 4 months, made his debut shortly after 7 am, to the delight of his mother Pat and father journalist Andrew Drummond, at a hospital in Thailand, near a 7/11, a canal, a motorcycle queue, and  a lot of […]

Flamboyant Scot On Yard Child Sex Abuse Watch List Dies

‘His adopted son was by his side’From Andrew Drummond, Bangkok – January 26 2010A flamboyant Scots businessman Martin Frutin, who left Scotland after being convicted of possessing child pornography in his Edinburgh mansion died in the Thai resort of Pattaya early today. Martin Frutin with Scots musician Frankie Miller – May 2005 Martin Frutin, one time […]

Could The Thai Military Have Done A Better Deal At Toys R Us

From Andrew Drummond, Bangkok Action by the British Government to ban the bogus ADE651 explosives detectors which have been sold to Iraq will put the spotlight on the Thai government over the GT- 200, also sold by a British company. The GT-200 has been credited with little more than attributing to the deaths of people in the […]

British Magic Wands Accused Of Killing People In Thailand

‘These British machines are falsely finding explosives in coconut trees. But people die when they give false negative reports ‘. From Andrew Drummond, Bangkok, Monday January 4th 2010 Pictures: Andrew Chant/WGPP The Prime Minister of Thailand will this week be asked to order the  withdrawal of  British  explosives detection equipment known as ‘magic wands’  for testing amid […]

The Thai Spy In Cambodia – The Real Scandal

I have been following the Thai ‘non spy’ in Cambodia affair with interest.  In fact I am as usual having a problem reading the newspapers with a straight face. Seems nobody in Thailand has done any real reporting on this case at all, or perhaps I have missed it. Certainly there is so much missing […]

Disabled Brits Face 'Girlfriend' Deprivation – Pattaya

In the spirit of ‘well just fancy that’ comes the news that some of us poor Brits living over here in Thailand are panicking a bit because those who distribute social security payments back home are blocking payments to people essentially living overseas. So step-forward the Pattaya Brits who find that even a half-good disability […]

A Bad Dancer Always Has Trouble With His Balls – Pattaya

Pattaya’s infamously dead pan local media, which faithfully follows their local police,  have been slavishly reporting, the recent arrest of 11 Russian prostitutes in the B52 club complex in, according to the Pattaya Daily News,  ‘Pattaya’s infamous Walking Street’. The raids conducted by Chonburi Superintendent, Pol. Col. Worawit Waitanormjit,  if your read the PDN, or  […]