December 2013
BRITISH EMBASSY PAYS FOR ‘RAILROADED ROUGH JUSTICE’ –
ARE THE CHILD ABUSE NGOs IN CAMBODIA STEPPING OVER THE LINE? -Or is everybody accused of child sexual abuse a lying pervert only fit for the scaffold? A report commissioned by the British Embassy records how a Briton convicted and sentenced to seven years jail in Cambodia for child sexual abuse was given absolutely no […]
FATHER’S FURY AS PAEDO’S LAWYER PUTS ‘TINY TOT’ IMAGE ON INTERNET
A British electrical engineer based in China has been shocked to find pictures of his five month old daughter on an internet flicker account of another Briton associated with child sexual abusers. Yorkshire born Ally Cooper said he was horrified at the action of Brian Goudie, 47, from Falkirk adding: “This is extremely unnerving…the guy […]
EXCLUSIVE – BANGKOK BOILER ROOMS – THE MONEY TRAIL – HOW IT WAS LOST
IT COULD HAVE BEEN FOLLOWED ON A MOONLESS NIGHT – WAS THERE NO WILL? When Thai Police accompanied by Australian Federal Police and the FBI raided the offices of the Brinton Group in Bangkok City Tower way back in July 2001 the move was heralded as a breakthrough in the fight against international fraud – […]
WHAT’S COMING UP ON ANDREW-DRUMMOND.COM
Just as the protesters are doing today I am taking a break for the King’s Birthday which of course is also Father’s Day in Thailand. This is the time when the kids prostrate themselves in front of you, tell you they will love you forever and thank you for your words of wisdom over the […]
The answer is democracy?
This week the guest columnist on Flying Sporran’s Weekend Diary is Mangus Evans Well that was a busy week, but while the riots have been raging in central Bangkok I can’t help but notice that some people are taking all this rather personally. I don’t mean the guys out there on the streets throwing objects […]
Peace In Our Time – Not Yet But Demonstrators Cool Down
Anti-government protesters were treated to guided tours of the Metropolitan Police Headquarters in Bangkok today after they disarmed themselves and police put down their tear gas guns and water cannons. One of the protest leaders Thavorn Senniam announced the invasion as a triumph. But police overnight had announced they would declare an ‘open house’ today. […]
BATTLE FOR BANGKOK – WARRANT FOR HIGH TREASON ISSUED – SHOTS FIRED
WHILE ARMY WAITS IN THE WINGS A warrant for the capital offence of high treason was issued last night against Bangkok protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban as anti-government protesters besieged Government House and the Metropolitan Police Headquarters in Bangkok. As anti-government protesters approached barriers at the police headquarters in Bangkok with a back hoe and bulldozer […]
American Publisher ejected from Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand
An application to join the Foreign Correspondent’s Club of Thailand by Drew Walter Noyes, has been rejected by the club’s Executive Committee and his money returned. Noyes, 57, who has claimed both in court and on the internet that he is a member, had applied to join the Bangkok based club in August. Separately British […]
RED SHIRTS SCORE POLITICAL VICTORY WITH SENSIBLE RETREAT ORDER
Over 100,000 red shirt supporters of the beleaguered Thai government were told by their leaders to go home today after a 21-year-old student was shot dead last night at Ramkhamhaeng University in Bangkok. Fearing their protest could end in bloodshed in clashes with anti-government demonstrators, leaders advised the red-shirts that they could come back another […]
