HUMAN RIGHTS COMEDY IN THAILAND CONTINUES – Human Rights Watch is not surprisingly up in arms against the proposed constitution of the Thai National Human Rights Commission, one of which is a notorious supporter of the lèse majesté laws under which anybody can be locked up for saying something which somebody not the King believes is […]
LEFT HAND DOWN A BIT! ITS THE THAI NAVY LARK The credibility of Thailand took another blow today as the Guardian newspaper followed up on its report last year on slavery in the Thai fishing industry making it quite clear, if we were in any doubt, that officials were complicit in the trafficking of Rohingya […]
COMING SOON A BOILER ROOM GUIDE TO COMPANY NOMINEES Apologies for a break in transmissions here but several long term enquiries are coming to a head; I am still in a learning curve with regards to the new U.K. -and then, of course, I have been meeting up with old colleagues while raising kids 24/7. […]
‘The pile of injustice in Thailand and the FBI from America is way too high for a 78 year old lady to cope with.’ I have just received a letter from the 78-year-old mother of Greg Miller, the American who died while in custody awaiting an appeal on child sexual abuse charges. That Greg […]
SHE TRIED TO SAVE HER SON FROM CROOKS AND INJUSTICE – BUT HE DIED THROUGH LACK OF CARE IN THE THAI JUSTICE SYSTEM An American mother, aged 77, who was allegedly swindled out of almost US$300,000 by a fake British lawyer in Pattaya who promised to defend her son Greg Miller on child sexual abuse […]
BROTHER-IN-LAW ‘BROKE KNEE CAPS FOR THE MAFIA’ The offer of a US$5000 reward this week for information about the death of American serviceman and Iraq veteran Josh Devine in the Andaman Sea in April comes as the family back home fails to get any closure on the mystery. Joshua Devine, 36, a ‘Soldier of the […]
Flying Sporran’s Weekend Diary (CONTD) While I have touched on the subject of human rights in China Raymond, Raymond Chang the Chinese American student who is singing about US Chinese détente might be better singing about something closer to home and more immediate – that is the deportation from Thailand over 100 Uyghurs last week […]
‘NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE -NO MATTER WHERE YOU COME FROM’ (except Melbourne) Flying Sporran’s Weekend |Dairy Raymond Chang – one of the two Chinese Americans of the Shanghai American School who have been charged with the vicious attack on Jack Hansen-Bartel in Koh Samui last year has made a video to promote China’s friendship […]
Jack Hansen-Bartel, with mask, behind Andy Hall, with defence lawyer at court today It seemed a sober moment, perhaps even a warning to the media just as the controversial murder trial of the accused killers of British backpackers Hannah Witheridge and David Miller was due to start on the Thai island of Koh Samui. “The […]
THAI JUSTICE ON TRIAL The trial over the controversial murders of British backpackers Hannah Witheridge and David Miller is to start in a few hours time on the Thai holiday island of Koh Samui. But first the judges will have to rule whether the defence will be allowed to examine DNA evidence and the method […]
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.