The Royal Thai Police today strongly denied claims made by American Drew Noyes in the Pattaya Times that they were seeking to arrest a British journalist and close down his website.Reports of the hunt for Andrew Drummond, a foreign correspondent in Thailand for nearly 25 years, were wildly exaggerated, and his website www.andrew.local was not the […]
From ANDREW DRUMMOND,Bangkok, October 10 2011 Pictures Andrew Chant/BoemFor Daily MailA retired Briton was under arrest in Thailand and facing 25 years in jail today after pulling off an armed bank heist in the Northern capital of Chiang Mai.Michael Wynn – The bitter end of the huntMichael Wynn, 63, was arrested early this morning (Monday) […]
From ANDREW DRUMMONDBangkokSunday October 9 2011An Irish father and his two young children have been told to stay in hiding for least another year in Thailand as investigations continue into corruption allegations involving police on the holiday island of Phuket. Colin Vard, 57, cousin of the famous Irish singing trio The Vard Sisters, and himself a former […]
Ref: Nazi schoolgirls start a Heil storm in ThailandStatement of the Simon Wiesenthal Center – 27-9-2011 The Simon Wiesenthal Center is calling on Thailand’s Christian leaders to condemn a Nazi parade at the Sacred Heart Preparatory School in Chiang Mai led by students who participated in a Nazi parade replete with Seig Heil salutes. “The Simon Wiesenthal […]
From ANDREW DRUMMOND, BangkokSeptember 26 2011Daily Mail Students in a school in the northern Thai capital of Chiang Mai thought they would give their teachers and parents a surprise on their Summer Sports Day.They kept their secret under wraps until the day was upon them and then with flourish and a fanfare they arrived to […]
A top ranking executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland was described as an ‘arrogant bully’ today after he got out of his top of the line Bentley Sports to smash and break the windscreen of a Mercedes with his bare fists.RBS’s head of EM, Credit Structuring and Repacking Asia Pacific was today accused of terrorising […]
From ANDREW DRUMMONDBangkok, September 17 2011Koh Phangan Pictures: Philip BlenkinsopFor Mail on Sunday The 28-year-old son of the Deputy Major of London has collapsed and died in a £12 a night guest house after attending a wild ‘Full Moon Party’ on the Thai island of Koh Phangan.Police said here today that Andrew John Lister, 28, son […]
From ANDREW DRUMMOND,Bangkok,September 15 2010 A Thai woman who won her case against the British Border Agency after being deported at the request of her Scots husband is being thwarted in her efforts to bring the matter to the European Court of Human Rights.Kanokrat Booth, 42, says that despite winning her case against the British Border Agency, who […]
From ANDREW DRUMMOND in BangkokMonday, 5 September 2011 For Belfast TelegraphA former RUC officer has denied carrying out the murder of his sex trade business partner after the victim was found shot to death in bed with his Filipina lover. Northern Irishman David Balmer (54) was found dead in bed with 26-year-old Elma de Guia in […]
From ANDREW DRUMMOND, Bangkok, September 2nd ‘F-Off Tourist!’ – the latest attack reported now on PhuketwanBritish and Foreign diplomats in Thailand have asked the authorities on a Thai island to put an end to the extortion and ‘dog pack’ attack on tourists.In a showdown with the governor of Phuket island diplomatic officials from Britain, Australia, Austria, and Germany, the […]
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.