2008

Canadian Embassy absolved of allegations of doing nothing over Leo Del Pinto murder. They were active behind the scenes.Link to the Chilliwack Times, Canada,correction

Millionaire Thaksin Shinawatra, the ousted Thai Prime Minister who went on to buy Manchester City football club has been banned from Britain.The visas for both he and his wife Pojaman were yesterday cancelled by the United Kingdom Border Agency rendering them fugitive from justice.Today (Saturday) the couple, who have both been jailed in their absence […]

From Andrew Drummond,Bangkok Supreme Court, October 21 08Former Thai Premier and owner of Manchester City Football Club was branded a criminal today and jailed for two years while ‘in absentia’ in England.After finding him guilty of corruption in a land deal  the Supreme Court submitted the verdict to Thailand’s Attorney General to pass to Britain […]

Link to CBC storyLink to Globe and Mail storyFrom Andrew Drummond, Bangkok Criminal Court, October 15 2008A Thai policeman accused of gunning down two Canadian backpacker s, killing one, was committed to prison in Bangkok today to face trial for the alleged murder.Police Sergeant Uthai  Dechawiwat was taken to the Criminal Court in Bangkok and […]

Thailand’s Supreme Court has issued another arrest warrant for Thaksin Shinawatra, the ousted premier, this time for cashing in on Burma’s military junta while offering himself as a mediator with the repressive regime.While Mr Thaksin, until recently owner of Manchester City F.C., offered Thailand as host country for talks with Burma, he was secretly cashing […]

Thailand was in a political deadlock today after the country’s parliament could not find a quorum to vote in a new Prime Minister.Deposed Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej, who was forced to resign for breaking conflict of interest laws by going on a television show called Cooking and Grumbling, had hoped coalition government members, who have […]

Thousands  of tourists , hundreds of them British, continued their slow evacuation from the Thai capital Bangkok tonight as a ‘State of Emergency’ declared by the government provided a lull in violence.The  state enterprise unions, who have joined the anti-government protest, allowed flights to continue uninterrupted from Bangkok and the country’s southern resorts of Phuket […]

An uneasy truce hung over Bangkok today after State of Emergency was declared at the end of a night of violence in the Thai capital.Children were sent scurrying home from schools, workers went on strike, tourists, thousands of them British, struggled to get out of the country, and anti-government protesters dug themselves deeper into Government […]

Thousands of Britons were trapped in Thailand last night as mobs protesting against the country’s ‘corrupt’ government laid siege to airports in tourist hot spots. Some 15,000 people were turned away from the airport on the holiday island of Phuket after protesters from the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) stormed the runway and terminals.Stranded passengers […]

Not by Andrew Drummond. But quotes him. An overview of touring child abusers and some of the cases Andrew Drummond has coveredLink to Scotland on Sunday articlepublish Date: 24 August 2008By Dani GaravelliIN HEATHROW Airport, the atmosphere was tense. As the plane bound from Thailand touched down, police officers took up their positions, paparazzi photographers […]