The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has described Thailand as being ‘on trial’ for allowing a company to prosecute a human rights defender who exposed modern day slavery in its canned fruit and fishing industry. The ITF is demanding that charges against Andy Hall, a UK citizen who is due to stand trial in September […]
Perhaps short of imagination or not the officer and gentleman he has claimed to be, one of my adversaries in my Computer Crime Act battle has taken to hiding behind the skirts of Thai women to avoid Thai law. Well he has been at it for a while but Brian Goudie, 47, from Falkirk our […]
TODAY THE LIONS CLUB BANGKOK SILOM 310D – TOMORROW THE WORLD! Drew Walter Noyes, the newly elected President of the Lions Club of Bangkok (Silom 310D) has begun his first term in office by publishing on his Pattaya Times website that British journalist Andrew Drummond is a National Socialist. Noyes, who already faces a series […]
THUG WHO TRAFFICKED IN COCAINE AND HEROIN AND GRASSED ON HIS OWN COURIERS GETS SENT TO THE BIG TIGER. Gilbert Akudos Ngidwe – the President of the Nigerian Association of Thailand was today jailed for life and fined a million baht at Bangkok Criminal Court on charges of trafficking in cocaine and ‘ice’. He joins […]
SCHOOL’S OUT! – TIME TO LIMBER UP! It is somewhat bizarre, but the honour of two private and expensive fee paying schools is at stake here on the Thai holiday island of Koh Samui and a Thai court will be the adjudicator – that is if two parties do not cut and run. Chang (left) […]
Some unhappy Brits in Thailand have been driven to distraction in attempts to get new passport under the new system. The Foreign and Commonwealth has sub-contracted passport and visa services to a company operating out of Sukhumvit Soi 13, in what I call ‘boiler room’ country in Bangkok. Delays in providing passports back home have […]
In a bout of incandescent age fake lawyer Brian Goudie, aka Goldie, has gone on the net once again to describe a former girlfriend and managing director of a company he controlled as a ‘prostitute’. In a blog on his casewatchasia.blogspot website he also calls her a criminal convicted of running an entertainment venue (HIS) […]
Flying Sporran’s Diary Had my breakfast interrupted this morning by a call from New Zealand, a follow up to many calls I have been receiving from there and Australia recently. It’s all to do with the Three Stooges. This website has long since broken the ‘you cannae make it up’ barrier with the likes of […]
IS ISLAND JUSTICE STILL ISLAND JUSTICE? It was late in Koh Samui’s famous ‘Soi Green Mango’ and the customers, several of whom have just passed out of school and awaiting University, are dancing away to the beat – when in the mayhem fell to the floor. In just a few seconds he had taken three blows […]
NOW THE ‘GUILTY’ BANKS ARE NAMED The exodus from Thailand of ‘boiler room boys’ – those involved in ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ operations – appears to have geared up with reports now that most of the operations in the northern capital Chiang Mai have relocated to Jakarta and Manila or are in the process. Sources […]
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.