2013

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST – BUT HAVE THE THAI AUTHORITIES NOW WOKEN UP? At last the press has caught on. And a BBC Television documentary is to follow. Harlequin the British development company which offered duff projects in Thailand has today been exposed in the ‘Mail on Sunday’ for its activities in the Caribbean […]

MOTHER LAUNCHES BLISTERING ATTACK ON POLICE STATEMENTS AND MEDIA COVERAGE From Andrew Drummond, Bangkok Why did no-one hear my daughters screams? Evening Times  Scotsman Daily Mail Daily Record The SUN Press & Journal A 26-year-old Thai man was today being held in connection with the rape of a 20-year-old Scottish student as the girl’s mother launched a blistering attack on […]

-Andrew Drummond writing under the name Flying Sporran celebrates victory in Drew Noyes case. A charge of libel brought against a British journalist investigating what he described as ‘rogue’ foreign newspaper publishers has been dismissed by a court in Thailand. The Pattaya Provincial Court dismissed claims made by 57-year-old American Drew Walter Noyes, founder of […]

SHE WAS ESCORTED HOME, SAID POLICE –   – AND NEIGHBOUR CLAIMED EVIDENCE OF DRUNKENNESS BUT NO RAPE- BUT SCOTS WOMAN SAYS SHE NEEDS TO GET HOME AFTER POLICE ABUSE- ‘I WAS SCREAMING FOR HELP BUT NOBODY CAME’ – SHE TELLS STV. FROM ANDREW DRUMMOND- BANGKOK Daily Mail, The Scotsman  Herald The SUN Independent A 20-year old Scottish woman, […]

RUSSIANS NOW SELLING TICKETS FOR JAIL ‘FREEDOM FIGHTS’ Flying Sporran’s Midweek Diary A Russian tour agency based in Pattaya has apparently got together with the Department of Corrections and is charging punters considerable sums of money to watch prisoners fight each other in jail. Under the slogan ‘Fight for Freedom’ they are advertising packaged excursions […]

WOMAN WAS DRAGGED AWAY BY FOUR MEN IN A PICK-UP TRUCK. RAPED ON A BALCONY WALKWAY- From Andrew Drummond, Bangkok- –Daily Mail, Daily Record, Mirror, Metro, Scotsman– Police in Thailand are seeking four men who allegedly gang raped a student of the University of the Highlands and Islands at the weekend. Second floor walkway next to Robinson’s […]

MYSTERY G-MAIL MAN’S EMAIL THREATS- ‘WANT TO PLAY ROUGH?’- BAT CAVE MAN OR JOKER? A judge in Pattaya, Thailand, has ruled that there was insufficient evidence to prove that Drew Walter Noyes, a man exposed by a newspaper in the United States for fraud, and not being able to recognise what the truth is, was […]

THE PATTAYA TRUTH – OUT AT LAST A libel case brought by Pattaya businessman Andre Machielsen against Drew Noyes, the city’s most famous American was today dismissed by a judge at the Pattaya Provincial Court on the grounds of insufficient evidence.  Drew Noyes, the founding father of the prestigious Pattaya Times, and one of Thailand’s foremost […]

HIS CAR WAS TORCHED. HE WAS GUNNED DOWN AND PARALYSED FOR LIFE. THEN HE GOT FINANCIAL ADVICE IN BANGKOK! ** (Pic:Donald ‘Biff’ Whiting) Former U.S. Marine Donald ‘Biff’ Whiting may possibly be resentful of settling down in Thailand with his wife Dolly a senior educationalist. Readers of this site will already know how he was […]

HOME BUYERS IN CHIANG MAI FIND THEMSELVES CAUGHT UP IN THE DRUGS POLITICS OF THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE Foreign home owners in Chiang Mai have been caught between a rock and a hard place after the arrest of a major developer for murder and suspicions that a foreign housing development in the city has been built […]