A British oil platform superintendent who took on Drew Noyes, a phony American lawyer who set up a business making cash out of foreigners in Thailand, was today formally acquitted of libel at Pattaya Provincial Court. Cooper – heading home Ally Cooper’s alleged crime was to share a link on Facebook relating to a story […]
IS NET CLOSING IN SERIAL FRAUDSTER POSING AS OFFICER AND GENTLEMAN? Scot Brian Goudie, formerly known as Goldie,has been spotted out shopping in Siam Paragon, Bangkok, after vacating his ‘Key Bar’ in Pattaya when a warrant for his arrest was issued. The phony British barrister was spotted this afternoon at Siam Paragon with his latest […]
FREAK TWIN AND SLAVERY CONNECTIONS Flying Sporran’s Weekend Diary In response to a reader’s request for good news I offer the following. The North Carolina town of Mount Airy has linked hands with Samut Songkhram on the Gulf of Thailand to become ‘sister’ cities – and officials in Thailand ‘are very excited about it’ according […]
BUT IF YOU’VE LOST YOUR LIFE SAVINGS THIS MAY NOT CONSOLE YOU. Wood The personal financial guru of the Bangkok Post has been indicted by the Thai Securities Exchange Commission along with eight other ‘financial advisors’ for operating securities businesses without licences. Andrew Wood, who was afforded a regular financial column in the Bangkok Post’s […]
The Thai Government has now admitted what we have known all along. It is going to strictly control the foreign media in Thailand and those journalists guilty of ‘inaccurate reporting’ will have their visas revoked and possibly much more. Inside Khun Sa’s camp with a typewriter The military led government has introduced new visa laws […]
AN ‘INSULT TO MY DIGNITY’ SAID DREW NOYES – AS THAI COURT SIDES WITH MAN WITH A 25 YEAR HISTORY OF DISHONESTY One of the ‘libelous pictures – Noyes left. Goudie right The criminal court in Pattaya today jailed an American schoolteacher for a year for libeling Drew Walter Noyes, an American who set up […]
‘OH GOD, TAKE US AWAY FROM THIS COUNTRY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE’ A BBC journalist has blagged his way into the Immigration Detention Centre in Bangkok to broadcast a scathing report on Thailand which he says welcomes tourists but refuses to help anyone seeking refuge. The report by Producer-reporter Chris Rogers was broadcast yestersay and […]
FAKE LAWYER HOPES AMERICANS WILL BELIEVE HIS CONNECTIONS TO ROYALTY On run with a warrant out for his arrest for extortion in Thailand Drew Noyes, 60, has changed his Facebook profile to show himself hobnobbing with Thai Royalty, a former US Ambassador to Thailand, and an Immigration Police Colonel. This may by a ruse by […]
UNFORTUNATELY HE’S KEEPING IT TO HIMSELF! I’m confused. I have just seen an unbeatable offer on the net – and I need advice. The New Nordic Company – ‘live next to a Thai Princess’ – is offering old aged pensioners a 10 per cent a year return on their property investments with it in Pattaya, […]
MORE RUMBLINGS IN THE UK The news that tourist deaths in Thailand have risen 54 per cent in a year is perhaps surprising. But more surprising is the fact that the statistics were released. With apologies to Don Wright of the Miami News – this cartoon was originally directed at Miami and south Florida after […]
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.