TRAGEDY AS KIDS BECOME THE VICTIMS OF THAILAND TURMOIL Two children were killed and three others children seriously injured in separate attacks on anti-government demonstrations in Thailand over the last 24 hours. In the first incident late Saturday in Trat Province near the Cambodia a five-year-old girl was killed and 30 adults injured when gunman […]
BUT AMBASSADOR EXPRESSED CONCERN THAT HE WAS ‘VERBALLED’ DURING AN INTERVIEW Documents obtained by human rights activist Andy Hall under the UK Freedom of Information Act show that British Embassy officials could not warn him that when entering Thailand he could be arrested. Although the Embassy were in possession of the facts and had information […]
The American publisher of the now defunct Pattaya Times newspaper picked on British journalist Andrew Drummond because he was worried about the wrong exposure on the internet – a witness told Bangkok Criminal Court today. (The last story – ‘Its all about money’ has now been updated to include – ‘The Truth About Goudie’s Court […]
PARLIAMENT PUBLISHES COMPLAINTS ONLINE. A British House of Commons Select Committee which is seeking views on how Britons get consular assistance abroad has received a number of complaints relating to Thailand – in excess at the moment of those from Spain – still Britain’s favourite holiday destination. The principal complainants are relatives of the victims […]
I haven’t a thing to wear for the Election, er, season. I certainly don’t want one of those green armbands which will identify me as foreign media. The last thing I want to happen is to be called to debate Thai politics with anyone on any stage anywhere, whether its with a gay rights activist […]
Feeling rich? Well you could be in for a shock the next time you check your bank balance. Card skimmers are prolific in Thailand and although there have been multiple arrests of foreigners – often Middle Eastern – if you are skimmed and scammed here you may never get your money back. The courts […]
Here’s another scammer in Thailand. He has a bloodied face and shirt because he has just been confronted by the boyfriend of his latest victim. On the phone he told the angry boyfriend: ‘F off. Faggot. Take the scam like a man’. So I guess Mark, who took this picture after giving him a good […]
‘LAWYER’ JAILED IN AUSTRALIA SAYS DOCUMENTS ABOUT HIM ARE FORGED. ‘I CAN GO BACK TO AUSTRALIA ANY TIME!’ Fake Scots lawyer Brian Goudie who was jailed in Australia for stealing over AUS$200,000 from the mining company that employed him told a court on the holiday island of Koh Samui today that records of his conviction […]
BOSS OF TOUCHWOOD FOUND IN PERTH HAS NEW ‘SECRET PRODUCT’ FOR THE GOLD COAST (Pic-At least you don’t have to wait for samosas togrow – like agarwood trees) Investors who put their savings into planting trees through the company TOUCHWOOD and other companies with A similar name should know that the company boss Roscoe Maloney, […]
OLD PALS ACROSS THE SEA? In one of the most unlikely trade negotiations of this year Thailand has been discussing increased trade and co-operation with Fiji – that bastion of Dictator-Prime Minister Commodore Josaia Voreqe ‘call me Frank’ Bainimarama. According to the Thai News Agency:- ‘Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Yukol Limlaemthong said he and his […]
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.