2011

Bangkok Diary From Andrew Drummond, Bangkok, November 6th As the flood waters spill their way towards the city there are a lot of unhappy bunnies camped out in one of Bangkok’s most expensive condominiums having undergone their own ‘annus horibilis’. I’m talking here about residents of Le Raffiné (refined or sophisticated) in Sukhumvit Soi 24 […]

 Well it had to happen sooner or later I guess. The ‘Adolf Hitler’ video has another new script this time featuring both American Drew Noyes and his friend Dane Niels Colov, both of whom have  newspapers, property companies, and legal offices in Pattaya. This comes to you courtesy of ‘Pattayascams’. I don’t know who they […]

 A British blogger known as Spike Tennyson, who ran a website called ‘Pattayadays’ has apparently fled Thailand after he claims he received threats to his personal safety by Jeff Savage – the Briton caught on video threatening to burn down Central World during the red-shirt troubles in Bangkok. Jeff Savage, 48, from Tonbridge, Kent, pleaded guilty to breaching […]

Having been reporting on Thailand’s floods and the price of eggs now it’s time to take a break. Whose fault was the flooding? Was it the fault of Thai government, the Bangkok Metropolitan Authority, the Irrigation authorities, Yingluck herself?  I needed to turn to my old bête noire the ‘Pattaya Times’ on the eastern seaboard for some […]

From ANDREW DRUMMOND, Bangkok, October 24 2011 A British editor holding together the Pattaya Times newspaper – apparently a partner paper of the Bangkok Post – has quit amid a controversy over the paper’s widespread ‘lifting’ of most of its material from a variety of journalists and news organisations worldwide.His resignation follows the departure of the paper’s […]

Got suited up last night to head for the British Embassy hosted QBP at the Erawan Hotel. In the middle of Sukhumvit I was diverted.  And then, after the whispered’ You even more hamsum today andloo’,  the sound of ‘God Save the Queen’ was soon far from my mind.QBP? Yes QBP.  Its apparently Embassy speak for the Queen’s Birthday Party […]

The logo of the alleged law firm shows two suited but headless figures running off with two bags over three mechanical cogs. Could this be interpreted as two brainless lawyers running of with their clients’ cash while the cogs of justice slowly grind to a halt?Absolutely, says frail Dutch pensioner Hans Boozajer, 67, but it’s not the Thai […]

Dramatic pictures show British journalist Andrew Drummond fleeing Bangkok as was forecast by American Drew Noyes ‘Editor-in-Chief’ of the Bangkok Post ‘partner’ newspaper the ‘Pattaya Times’. But seriously you’ll have to read first about more people who were duped by the man who describes himself as the ‘most credible, friendly, reassuring professional to make Thailand […]

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) […]