TRANG, PHUKET FALL – KRABI, SAMUI TO FOLLOW (Picture Andy Mitchell) Anti-Government protesters spread their protest to Thailand’s holiday islands today taking over the provincial administrative buildings on the island of Phuket. This follow the occupation last night of the provincial offices of Trang and now 77 districts, which include the holiday island of Koh […]
‘Protest Leaders, Authorities Should Act to Prevent Violence’ (New York, November 27, 2013) – Protesters have assaulted journalists, in some cases at the instigation of protest leaders, at rallies in Bangkok since November 25, 2013, Human Rights Watch said today. Thai authorities and protest leaders should act to prevent violence during ongoing political demonstrations. The […]
CONCERN IN BANGKOK AS VIDEO SHOWS POLICE COVERING CCTV CAMERAS This video has alarmed people in Bangkok. It apparently shows police covering a CCTV camera at Wat Benchampit near the centre of the protests after Prime Minister invoked the Internal Security Act and the Criminal Court issued a warrant of arrest for Suthep Thaugsuban, protest […]
Bangkok Tense As Internal Security Act is enforced From Andrew Drummond Bangkok: A sea of anti-government protestors surged through Bangkok today occupying key government buildings and demanding an end to the Premiership of Yingluck Shinawatra. Anti-government protesters with a long list of grievances stormed into the Finance Ministry, Budget Bureau and Ministry of Foreign Affairs and […]
Hugo Swire, British Minister of State for the Foreign Office, has stated that although Embassy officials had spoken to official of the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Thai Government cannot interfere with the judicial process in Thailand. The question was put by M.P. Kerry McCarthy in relation to the attempted prosecution of human rights […]
Mixed messages are coming from Brian Goudie currently holed up in Baan Lamai on Koh Samui. His Facebook entries are becoming more and more weird. Take this for instance published today. ‘I may look calm but in my head I have killed you 3 times’. I am not sure to whom he is addressing this, […]
FLYING SPORRAN’S DIARY British citizens who are not enamoured with the help they get from the British Embassy in Bangkok will not be surprised to read today that the British government makes £56 million a year just by keeping people on hold on the telephone. I laughed my socks off when I read today’s Daily […]
EXODUS! GETTING OUT OF THE HEAT Reliable sources are today reporting that Bangkok’s boiler room operators are now in the final stages of a hasty evacuation of the Thai capital and relocating to Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta. It is not clear what sparked off the sudden exodus but an international operation against the illegal share […]
The Australian Crime Commission has today been blowing its trumpet a little bit, but wisely not too much, in claiming credit for the closure of a ‘boiler room’ in Bangkok in April this year. The operators of that boiler room (illegal share trading house) were, the ACC claimed, responsible for stealing $50 million from Australian […]
‘GOLDIE OF THE BAILEY’S’* HONG KONG STASH – It’s a staggering amount for a wee jessie of a chiseller but information coming into my office suggests that while working in Thailand Brian Goudie deposited in his HSBC account in Hong Kong the equivalent of 23 million baht- £475,643.89 at today’s rates. This was for one […]
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.