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Andrew Drummond

GODFATHERS, BRITS AND MURDER IN THAILAND’S ‘COSTA DEL CRIME’

With the alleged assassins of Briton Tony Kenway in Thailand named and on the run Thai police remain cautious about naming the source of the victim’s wealth although, according to the Khao Sod newspaper in Bangkok, they privately admitted he was a ‘boiler room’ scammer. It is now almost certain that 39-year-old Kenway was a […]

WHO WILL RID ME OF THIS KNOCKING SHOP?

Don’t lean against the wall NO URN SO FAR FOR DREW NOYES IN GRECIAN TRAGEDY Runaway fraudster and extortionist Drew Noyes has still failed to sell a tasteless Grecian style knocking shop in Thailand indicating there are no suckers to be had or a slump in Thailand’s twilight tourist industry. From his home at 613 […]

THE ASSASSINATION OF A BRITON AND THE KING OF THAILAND

A Briton gunned down in Pattaya early today had a picture on his Facebook page meeting the King of Thailand. If the picture is genuine it begs the question why. And if it is not it could also answer the question of why he was murdered. But what is certain is that Tony Kenway, 39, […]

CONVICTED EXTORTIONIST’S TANTALISING OFFER IN THAILAND.

‘IT’S A STEAL!’ A notorious American confidence trickster is at it again trying to off load former government subsidised housing to tourists to the raunchy Thai resort of Pattaya. Drew Walter Noyes, 61, from Wilmington, North Carolina, is trying to pass off a former National Housing Authority unit in the Keha Condominium.  He claims the […]

STACEY DOOLEY PLEASE COME BACK TO THAILAND…STACEY? ARE YOU THERE?

CAN THE BBC’S ‘HEART OF GOLD’ SOFTEN THAILAND’S STRONGMAN? Stacey Dooley Versus General Prayuth Chan-Ocha  I have been playing ‘catch-up’ recently viewing television programmes about Thailand aired in the UK while I was away. This is eased by the fact that there are so many channels repeating old progammes – so this weekend I was […]

BBC TO GO HEAD TO HEAD IN THAI COURT IN COMPUTER CRIME ACT CASE

The BBC is to support its south-east Asia correspondent Jonathan Head in a battle involving Thailand’s fraudulent property market after a court in Phuket accepted a case of slander under the country’s Computer Crime Act against him. Jonathan Head confronting Thai lawyer  Pratuan Thanarak in Phuket   Jonathan Head said today: “We will fight the […]

THAILAND CONTINUES TO CRACK DOWN ON FREEDOM OF SPEECH

The Thai military government in its continued strategy to cover up matters it does not want the public to know about, not least of which are its hands in the till style government while supposedly clamping down on corruption, continues to clamp down on freedom of expression. Its rather humourless leader General Prayuth Chan-Ocha, who […]

DEALING WITH SEX ATTACKS – THE THAI POLICE WAY

COMMENT I am not sure how many times have I seen the Australian authorities announcing they have sent police officers over to Thailand yet once again to train Thai police in how to deal with sex crimes. They have done it several times, and so have the Brits, Americans, and others. Several people in the […]

UNIVERSITY FIRES PROF WHO SPOKE OUT IN DEATH CONTROVERSY

CONTROVERSIAL UNIVERSITY IN THAILAND LETS WHISTLE BLOWER GO An American professor who questioned the circumstances of the death of another lecturer at Webster University’s Thai campus at Cha-am has been fired without reason. Donald Johnson had been asked to sign a ‘cease and desist order’ by the University’s director Keith Welsh, banning him from showing […]

LEAVE HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS ALONE- THAI MILITARY GOVERNMENT ASKED

The current Thai military government claims it is on a drive to end corruption but seems unwilling to stem corruption within its own ranks.  Now they’re being asked or told to leave human rights defenders alone – and the Thai government claims it is improving human rights in the fishing industry and clamping down on […]