In February 2003 posing as a teacher Andrew Drummond entered Ashgabad the capital of Turkmenistan, a country out of bounds to journalists, and seldom visited by tourists. Within days he was up on the podium with Niyazoz ‘The Great Turkmenbashi’ as the ruthless dictator took his birthday salute.His report for ‘The Times’ highlighted the widespread […]
British traffic cop turns to ‘sex trafficker’ Picture left APFrom Andrew Drummond, Bangkok May 21 2008A former Liverpool traffic policeman was arrested in Thailand yesterday for trafficking in women to the sex slave trade in Britain.Ian Shuttleworth, aged 42, was arrested at his Bangkok apartment after a tip of to Thai police.He is alleged to […]
Scotsman Friday April 13 2007 Our man in Bangkok upsets Thais and expats in ‘patronising’ weblog ANDREW DRUMMOND IN BANGKOK THE Scottish deputy head of Britain’s mission in Bangkok has given up his internet blog after three days of insults on the internet, mainly from angry Britons in Thailand. Ian Proud, also the head of the […]
From Andrew Drummond,Sihanoukville, CambodiaHe ran with the notorious Glasgow gang ‘The Tongs’, notorious for their razor slashings in the city’s old tenements.As a kid he was in and out of approved school borstal and Barlinnie Prison, Glasgow, the infamous ‘Bar L’.His father was a convicted armed robber and lorry hijacker. His brother TC Campbell has […]
From The TimesFebruary 7, 2007Sorry I’m 25 years late – I got on the wrong bus to go shoppingAndrew Drummond in Bangkok It was just a normal shopping trip when Jaeyana Beuraheng bade farewell to her eight children as she left to cross the border into Malaysia. But it would be 25 years before she would […]
From The TimesJanuary 30, 2007Cobra Swamp is reclaiming Bangkok’s showpiece airport Andrew Drummond in Bangkok Bangkok’s showpiece international airport, opened last year, appears to be sinking into the swamp on which it was built. The city’s old airport will have to be reopened and some flights diverted there.The $4 billion (£205 million) Suvarnabhumi airport was opened […]
From The TimesJanuary 1, 2007Two die as bomb blasts hit new year celebrations in Bangkok• British tourists among the injured• Nine explosions across the Thai capitalAndrew Drummond in BangkokTerrorists brought carnage to Bangkok’s new year celebrations last night with a series of bombings that started early in the evening and ended at the stroke of […]
Mail on Sunday November 26 2006 From Andrew DrummondOutside the factory on a massive trading estate near Bangkok, the temperature is almost 100 degrees.Inside, Thai workers are shivering at minus 10 as they monotonously grind away, chopping, vacuum-packing and packaging a variety of fish caught in the waters off Scotland that is to be returned […]
From Andrew Drummond,Bangkok, March 13 08A Briton was murdered in Thailand by a mentally disturbed man who was jealous of the man’s forthcoming marriage to his sister.Retired ICI worker Ivor Chandler, 56, from Skelton, East Cleveland, had been taken by a his Thai girlfriend, Chumporn, 28, from the resort of Pattaya to meet her parents, […]
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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.