Just when you thought this story had gone away now comes the news that Vera Productions have sold the controversial series ‘Big Trouble in Thailand’ to Channel 9 in Australia. This will actually multiply its televion audience twenty fold. Previously it went out on Bravo with a viewership of about 116,000. Vera Productions in the […]

An eight-yr-old British boy was held with a sharpened pencil to his throat held by an apparently drug crazed thief on the outskirts of the Thai capital Bangkok, his father said today.Screaming and shouting in Thai, the thief, in his twenties, demanded cash after being confronted by the boy’s mother and Liverpudlian dad. The boy’s […]

Has Ofcom ruled lies can’t hurt us? Rory Bremner has the last laugh.Britain’s broadcasting watchdog ‘Ofcom’ has rejected complaints about the documentary series ‘Big Trouble in Thailand’ brought by the series producer himself.In rejecting the complaint Ofcom says that Gavin Hill was not entitled to complain as he did not feature in the series, nor […]

This is a blog onlyAs if Phuket is not getting enough bad PR at the moment, the Phuket Gazetteis reporting a punch up between a Middle Eastern tourist and three ‘Iguana handlers’ after the tourist apparently declined to be photographed being pictured with one of these creatures in, yes, Soi Crocodile. The 20-yr-old Syrian ended […]

This is a blog only Today my friends at Phuketwan are reporting that all jet-skis in Patong Beach are now insured. This is now perhaps the time to put the lid on an incident in June this year involving a row over a damaged jet ski, British Royal Marines, and a payment of 35,000 Thai baht. etc…. and reveal the truth.The […]

This is a blog onlyLink to Daily Mail and VideoSo it’s off to Phuket as the London Daily Mail requests ‘colour’ for the story it is going to publish about British student Rishi Bavjeva, who took a flying leap this summer attached to a bungy cord – and never came up again.The Phuket Bungy jump […]

From Andrew Drummond, Hua HinMonday October 5th 2009Link to Daily Telegraph Link to MetroLink to Daily Mail   Link to Daily Express Pictures: Andrew ChantA British honeymoon couple today spoke of their miraculous escape from death when a train on the Orient Express line in Thailand crashed killing ten people and injuring over 50.Richard Stroud, 43, and his […]

From Andrew Drummond, Bangkok, Monday September 28Link to Daily MailLink to the SUNLink to Evening Standard Link to Daily TelegraphFrom Andrew Drummond, Bangkok, Monday September 28An inquiry was launched today into how five passengers died including two young Britons when a brand new tourist boat sank in Vietnam on just its second passenger trip. From reports […]

From Andrew Drummond, Bangkok, Sunday September 27Link Daily Mail Link to Daily ExpressLink Daily Telegraph Link to MetroA 28-year British woman, who hired a taxi driver to take her back to her room on the Thai holiday island of Koh Samui, was instead taken to a  coconut plantation, dragged screaming from the car, beaten and  then raped,it […]

From Andrew Drummond, Bangkok,September 20 2009Pictures Gavin Hill/VeraA British producer cameraman has had to flee Thailand after filming a sequence in which British Royal Marines were held at gunpoint by Thai mafia after hiring a Jet Ski on a paradise beach.The cameraman Gavin Hill, 40, from Manchester, a former bureau chief for Associated Press Television, […]