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Andrew Drummond

THAI SUPREME COURT TO RULE ON ANDY HALL’S ACQUITTALS

Thailand’s Supreme Court will rule this week on decisions to acquit migrant workers activist Andy Hall of defaming the Natural Fruit Company. Andy Hall was acquitted at the Bangkok Criminal Court in Prakanong and at the Appeal Court. It seems that he should be acquitted again, but nothing is written in stone in Thailand, and […]

ACCUSED SEX TRAFFICKER TO HELP THAILAND’S INTERNATIONAL IMAGE

THAI DICTATOR HOPES FOR GOOD PUBLICITY FROM ACTOR STEVEN SEAGALL I have been having a little hibernation organising my files and doing some private writing. However recent pictures of Hollywood B movie actor Steven Seagal posing with Thailand’s dictator General Prayuth Chan-Ocha caused a retching moment. It’s not that I can stand the sight of […]

‘I CAN’T REMEMBER THE LAST SIX MONTHS’ SAYS DREW NOYES

IT WAS THE ACCIDENT LAST WEEK I BLAME As I anticipated American Drew Walter Noyes,61, is heading for legal action as he is ‘feeling mad at Home Depot, 5511, Carolina Beach Road, Wilmington, North Carolina.’ He claims a pole snapped, and knocked him out. Now, he says, he has 6 months’ memory loss and his […]

FOREIGNERS THREATENED IN BAD WEEK FOR THAI MILITARY

‘REFLECTS BADLY ON THAILAND? IT WILL BE BANNED In a deeply unhappy week for the Thai military government it has retaliated by threatening foreigners to shut up for face arrest. The junta has had a series of bad news breaks. First up was Thailand’s self-appointed Prime Minister General Chan-Ocha, who threatened to ban the film […]

NOYES HIT WITH IRON BAR AT HOME DEPOT

Alas – sad news from across the pond in North Carolina where Drew Noyes, currently on the run from a jail sentence and conviction for extortion in Pattaya, Thailand, has been hit by an iron bar in his local Home Depot. It is reported that even though he complained to Home Depot personnel they would […]

RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE?

PATTAYA LINK TO BRIT DRUGS SYNDICATE, er, SHOCK? It’s in the court record. Briton Mark Rumble was or maybe still be one of the major drugs dealers in the south of England. According to the records of Oxford Crown Court Rumble, from Wallingford on Thames, took over the syndicate from a guy called Neil Wadley. […]

THAI COURT FINDS ANDY HALL GUILTY

‘WE ARE SHOCKED’ – SAYS FINNWATCH DIRECTOR. ‘HE IS A SCAPEGOAT’ Natural Fruit boss Wirat Piyapornpaiboon:  “No foreigner should think they have power about Thai sovereignty.” British workers’ rights activist Andy Hall was given a four year suspended jail sentence in Thailand today for speaking out against the ill-treatment of Burmese workers at a pineapple […]

RIDICULOUS ‘THAI SPITE’ CASE AGAINST BRIT TO BE DECIDED TOMORROW

COMMENT Cases of criminal libel and libel under the Computer Crime Act brought against a British researcher who helped expose mistreatment of Burmese migrant workers will be decided at the Criminal Court in Bangkok tomorrow. Andy Hall faces up to seven years in prison as a result of the action by the Natural Fruit Company […]

FULL MOON PARTY HOSTS FED UP WITH CORRUPTION

OFFICIAL CAUGHT WITH HIS HANDS IN THE TILL – BUT WILL THESE COMPLAINTS DISAPPEAR? On the day Thailand’s military leader said that the country was on the way to becoming a first world country a foreign business owner on the Full Moon Party island made an official claim of corruption against government officials. Historical picture […]

SCAMMER ALERT – JOBS IN THAILAND

WHEN WILL THEY EVER LEARN? The notorious Canadian low-life scammer Harris Black is at it again in Thailand. Now he’s offering jobs to foreigners – at a price. He has been flooding Craigslist (Thailand) with  job opportunities for foreigners among whom there is no shortage of people seeking to extend their stay by working. He’s […]