Thailand

FROM ANDREW DRUMMOND Bangkok Wednesday, July 04, 2012 As the death toll today role to 11 a British has woman confirmed how her boyfriend pleaded with a long distance bus driver to slow down before the fatal crash in south Thailand. Holding back tears Roberta Norton, 31 who was travelling with her partner Jonathan Bennett, 28, said […]

English ‘Gentlemen’ Sometimes Don’t Mind Robbing Old Ladies May 17 2012 They call him ‘The Penguin’.  Could it be because he has all the attributes of the fictitious villain in the ‘Batman’ comic – come- Hollywood hero series – a fiendish mind with a fishy smell about him?  At any rate if you come across this British charmer and […]

New Stink Over Vegetable Scoop Which Made US Reporter Flee Thailand From ANDREW DRUMMOND, April 19 2012 A  newspaper story about how the director of Thailand’s ‘National Innovation Agency’ allegedly plagiarised his PhD thesis and an academic paper about organic asparagus production from other academics, has been given new life in the British’Times Higher Educational‘ […]

  Original version read 1,870 times – A Flying Sporran EnquiryFrom  ANDREW DRUMMOND,BangkokOctober 11 2011Drew Noyes & Thai Immigration & Labour Law Part 1 Two Filipina girls hired by self-proclaimed ‘newspaper publisher, philanthropist, and legal expert’ in Thailand have broken their silence on their ordeal after fleeing their jobs all but penniless after just four weeks. […]

In November 2005 Andrew Drummond and photographer Andy Chant tracked down former glamour-rock icon Gary Glitter to a house in Vung Tau, Vietnam. As a direct result Glitter was later arrested as he tried to flee the country through the international airport at Ho Chi Minh city. He was later jailed for three years in […]