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Andrew Drummond

Andrew Drummond
Investigative Reports From Bangkok and Beyond

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WHEN THINGS GET REALLY BAD – IN FOREIGN HOUSING ESTATES IN THAILAND

FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE BRING BACK THE GUNMAN! I am not even going to write this story. It tells itself. Or at least a website does. But it’s a prime example of what can go wrong with house buying in Thailand . (Picture: Jason Coghlan wearing what robber’s wear when they go out with their dolls. […]

EXCLUSIVE: CASH AND BULLY BOY SCANDALS THREATEN ‘PAEDO HUNTERS’ IN CAMBODIA

ANTI-PAEDO ‘AUSSIE THUGS’ HOLD HOSTAGES IN BAR AS WHISTLEBLOWERS LEAK FINANCIAL REPORTS. WATCHING THE DETECTIVES! A paedophile hunting charity  in Cambodia run by former Australian and British policemen is mired with allegations of financial irregularities and accusations of ‘behaviour like thugs.’ Picture: How a Chinese magazine presented SHISHA. The caption reads ‘If anyone can, Ayia […]

NOW AMERICAN ‘FRAUD’ MAN RUNS THAI POLICE WEBSITE

Doing crime in Thailand? Turn yourself in to the country’s most famous American. Drew Noyes bagged ‘blow job’ and ‘sex tourism’ internet domains and ripped off a Thai Government investment website. Now it is the turn of Thailand’s Crime Suppression Division – An American with a fraud judgment against him in the United States and […]

‘AN ATTEMPT TO STIFLE SERIOUS REPORTING OF LABOUR ABUSES IN THAILAND’

-A CHILLING AFFECT!- “Prosecution strikes at the very core of efforts by human rights defenders to end pervasive abuses of workers !in Thailand’s export industry.” (PIC:Andy Hall with Aung San Suu Kyi. Last year he took her on an unofficial trip to see Burmese workers in Mahachai on the Gulf of Thailand outside Bangkok.) In […]

Maggie’s Part In My Downfall

How can I let the death of former British Premier Margaret Thatcher pass without a word? Well easily actually.  But I thought at least I would congratulate Thai TV Channel 5 for using not a picture of Maggie but a picture of Meryl Streep, who acted the part of Maggie Thatcher in the film ‘Iron […]

PINEAPPLE EATING FINNS MAY HAVE CAUSED AN ASIAN STORM

-PINA COLADA SALES PLUMMET IN HELSINKI!- Flying Sporran’s Weekend Diary- Actually I had never heard of Finnwatch before but I have always advocated an organisation which could watch Finns. But it now seems this organization, together with the Finns, or some of them up there in the frozen tundra, who have a liking for pineapple […]

AND YOU HAVE JUST GOT TO HAVE THESE PILLS

HAVE I BEEN KIPPERED AGAIN? (pic ANNIE tripped in classroom) Well I guess we have all had it at one time or other – those Thai hospital bills when you go in for a minor ailment in Thailand and are sent packing with piles of pills and a big bill. It’s happened to me many […]

Is anybody listening? – Can somebody do something?

-A Flying Sporran Panic Attack!- I guess there must be more than a few people like me in Thailand who have kids here but not the cash to pay the massive fees demanded by international schools – some even more expensive than Eton. This is one subject  which can bring me close to tears or […]

BRIT DEPORTED AFTER SQUEALER SQUEALED ON THE ‘SQUEALING PIG’

FRIENDS FAIL TO SAVE BAR OWNER LABELLED ‘HUMAN TRAFFICKER’  From ANDREW DRUMMOND, Bangkok July 30 2012 ‘Jack’ Alty in his bar (FACEBOOK) A 57-year-old Scot has voluntarily deported himself from Thailand after being branded ‘a danger to society’. John Joseph Alty, from Glasgow, who ran a guest house called ‘The Squealing Pig’ in Hua Hin […]

Farmer Joe -Thailand's Bernard Matthews

Tough turkey says wife ‘This is Thailand’Plucking away in Hua Hin in bygone days Joe Stanyer, 57, was the equivalent of Britain’s Bernard Matthews, but things are now not so ‘bootiful’ for the former farm labourer from Shifnal, Shropshire.He says his Thai wife sold 8 acres of his ten acre farm from under him and […]