SHOOTING DEATHPolice tale fabricated: PornthipNHRC wants DSI to take over Pai inquiry publish on February 9, 2008Top forensic doctor Pornthip Rojanasunan has rejected the police account of the shooting of two Canadians, one of whom was killed, in the northern town of Pai last month.Pornthip has been studying post mortems carried out both in Calgary, […]
From The TimesJune 4, 2004Jungle tribes losing war against loggersFrom Andrew Drummond in Upper Baram, SarawakIn former days the people here would have taken heads with machetes in retaliation for what has happened to their land and livelihood.But at a dayak longhouse 160 miles up the Baram River in Sarawak, Borneo, a headhunter’s descendant in […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITORLast week The Nation newspaper publish an account by myself in the aftermath of the shooting of two young Canadians in Chiang Mai. This article included some of the history of Carly Reisig during her stay in Mae Hong Son’s Pai district. This included the facts that she had hit a policeman […]
From The Sun and the Daily Star, January 11 2008 Pictures by Reuters and Andrew Chant Of course as this frog is in a Catatonic state the video is not quite so good!Hopper on a chopper! Spawn to be wild, Going down the old frog and toad! Rev it! Rev it! – a good day for […]
From The TimesMay 11, 2004Powerful man of eastern promisesA look at the man behind the bid to buy into LiverpoolFrom Andrew Drummond in BangkokTHE rise to power of Thaksin Shinawatra, Thailand’s Prime Minister, three years ago was secured by projecting himself as a patriotic, iron-fisted, man of the people.His promises to slash rural poverty, set […]
Villagers contradict Canadian girl’s story – CBCPai Shooting Analysis – The NationCanadian Carly Reisig, who witnessed her best friend being shot to death by a Thai policeman before being shot herself, last night defended herself from reports that she had been a ‘troublemaker’ in the murder village.But she admitted that she had been involved in […]
Nation: Cop executed my best friend Canadian recounts Thai shooting that killed friend – Toronto StarIn a carbon copy murder similar to the police execution of two British backpackers in Thailand four years ago – a young Canadian tourist told yesterday how a Thai policeman executed her best friend. Twenty-four-year-old Carly Reisig, from British Columbia, […]
*SUN story here A British registered sex-offender who used a false University degree obtained in the Khao San Road to get a job in a temple school in suburban Bangkok was being held at the Immigration Detention Centre last night. Alan Thomas Smith, 54, from Accrington, Lancashire, was seized after leaving the Nong Yai temple […]
Allies of deposed PM claim victory in Thai electionLast Updated: Sunday, December 23, 2007 | 12:39 PM ETCBC NewsAllies of Thailand’s deposed prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, have won the first parliamentary election since a 2006 military coup, according to initial election results released Sunday.But the People’s Power Party (PPP) appears to have fallen just short […]
Unmasked – The ‘Weakest Link’ child sex-offender * Touch of a paedophile – The SUN *Sex case teacher loses his job *I’ll be Santa says British sex-offender – The SUN From Andrew Drummond, Bangkok, December 18 2007 This man claims to have worked for UNICEF – the United Nation’s Children Fund – and here he […]
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.