Vietnamese search and rescue teams were put back on alert today after a New Zealander working on an oil rig has now claimed he saw the plane disappear off the Vietnamese coast near Vung Tau. Doan Huu Gia, deputy general director of Vietnam’s air traffic management confirmed authorities had received the email from Mike McKay, […]
Foreign pensioners in Thailand, many of them hapless Brits, face a bleak future, and may have to go back home and throw themselves on the mercy of the state, after finding their live savings have gone, gobbled up in the main by sharks in the financial and property business. Many of them have fallen victim […]
INCREDIBLE STORY OF HOW ITALIAN’S PASSPORT WAS GIVEN AWAY IN THAILAND- The passport of an Italian whose passport was used to buy a ticket on ill-fated Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 may have been sold by Russian Mafia. A woman in Thailand, whose staff gave away the passport of Luigi Ramaldi, has admitted it was switched […]
THAILAND HIGHLIGHTED AS PEOPLE TRAFFICKING HUB – AGAIN Police in Thailand today questioned travel agents in the resort of Pattaya after it was revealed that tickets for two passengers who used fake passports to board the ill-fated Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 were sold by them. Police Colonel Supachai Phuykaeokam head of Pattaya Police confirmed that […]
Fake barrister Brian Goudie put in a dazzling display at Koh Samui Provincial Court today placing another case against British journalist Andrew Drummond. Goudie, who was sentenced to six years in jail by the Western District Court in Perth, Australia, and served his time in Hakea Prison, also applied to the court for the adjournment […]
Two victims of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 which disappeared and crashed on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing were carrying passports stolen in Thailand. The families of Luigi Maraldi, 27, an Italian, and Austrian Christian Kozel, 30, have confirmed that these two men are alive and well ‘Luigi called us early this morning to […]
‘The Flying Sporran advises against all but essential travel to Sukhumvit Soi 11.You should take extra care and avoid gatherings of other foreigners talking about ‘gerbil wheels’. These meetings can be accompanied by indiscriminate wretchings’. Foreigners heading out on the town in Bangkok should especially careful over the next few weeks as the city has […]
Shortly before 9 pm this evening in Thailand this site crashed through the 500,000 page views per month barrier. This has been an amazing achievement and it’s based we hope on the site’s honest and free speaking content, and investigations. How we started Thank you to all the readers who gave support – while private […]
COULD HE HAVE BECOME LIKE STAN? A little known fact about Max Clifford the agent to the stars currently on trial on indecency charges in Southwark Crown Court in London is that as a lad he used to run with a famous Pattaya British conman Stan Fry. Stan Fry was one of first ne’er do […]
Time and time again this site has been contacted by English language teachers working in schools in Thailand, who have complained about anything from physical attacks to straight forward cheating and on payment of wages. These complaints also range from schools refusing to process the teachers’ work applications through the relevant ministeries so that they […]
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.