ONE FOR YOU AND 99 FOR ME The forthcoming trial of ThaiVisa boss George Andersson on fraud charges is likely to reveal that the owner of Thailand’s most popular website, well at least in term of hits, has been hiding large chunks of his income and putting it in banks in Hong Kong. A home […]
FOREIGN POLICE VOLUNTEER LEADER HOB NOBS WITH HELLS ANGEL WHO WAS TOO BAD FOR THE BANDIDOS! Quite a few readers of our last story about Niels Colov, Thailand’s most famous former gangster turned foreign police volunteer chief in Thailand, picked up on our tease picture of the man himself posing with the Bandidos. And the […]
Staff at the Pattaya People Media Group run by former Copenhagen gangster Niels Colov, now a reformed leader of the Pattaya Police Foreign Volunteers, are reported to have had their wages cut by 50 per cent amid rumours that the ‘media empire’ might come crashing down. They are even more concerned that Colov, who set […]
WILL SEND BRIEF TO PROSECUTOR IN ONE OR TWO MONTHS Brodie Smith Following revelations here I have sadly to report that the that there is no manhunt for the two Americans who administered Ibogaine to Brodie Noel Smith. We revealed here that Brodie died, not by shooting himself up as the police report said, but […]
A line appears to have been drawn under the spat between the Bangkok Post and the Columbia Journalism Review and the Bangkok Post over an article by former reporter Justin Heifetz. The Bangkok Post reacted angrily to an article by Heifetz who fled the newspaper after facing the might of the Thai Admiralty after it […]
A block by the Thai government on this site seems to have done little so far to diminish readership figures, indicating that many people in Thailand may have already set up VPN connections. Page views are still hovering around the 10,000 mark and at the moment I am considering further actions to make articles more […]
The Thai Military Government has blocked this site, the website of British journalist Andrew Drummond in Thailand, for reasons yet to be made clear, apart from the fact it is viewed by somebody as damaging to Thailand. The block was imposed last Friday and relates only to viewership in Thailand. The site can be seen […]
Most readers of this site will be aware of Alan Hall the former ‘independent financial adviser’ – and I use that expression loosely, based in Chiang Mai. But here’s another warning for Expats perhaps in other countries. Beware of this ‘UK Expat Pensions’. This is Alan Hall’s website and of course back home up t’north […]
Another foreign journalist has gone public about his treatment and betrayal at Thailand’s biggest English language newspaper the ‘Bangkok Post’. Justin Heifetz, who like Erika Fry worked for the Bangkok Sunday Post Spectrum Section, the section which comes closest to running anything resembling quality journalism in the newspaper, has gone public, like his predecessor Erika […]
EXPOSED THE GOAT WHO BANNED APPEAL FOR FOOD FOR HOMELESS CATS AND DOGS George Anderssen the boss of ThaiVisa.com, the largest and most controversial English language web forum in Thailand is not really George Anderssen but a ‘cone-headed’ and somewhat dodgy visa salesman called Lars Janson (sic), it’s now being claimed. Could George or Lars […]
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.