– JUST WHEN LAOS WAS GETTING USER FRIENDLY – MAGSAYSAY WINNER IS TRUCKED OFF. Laos has recently joined the ‘to do’ list of young travellers. Vang Vieng the world’s tubing capital was getting hotter than the Full Moon parties on Koh Phangan, Thailand. So here is a timely reminder to travellers that they are travelling […]
U.N. OUTRAGE AS FORMER GANGSTER GETS FAKE UNESCO CROSS AND CERTIFICATE OF HONOUR! (Picture: Niels Colov centre in Copenhagen in the bad old days) The head of Pattaya City’s Foreign Police Volunteers and boss of Pattaya People newspaper, radio and television, has been honoured in a FAKE United Nations medal and certificate SCAM. Two Pattaya […]
FIRED! – SUPREMO OF PATTAYA TIMES GAGGED IN CUPID’S CITY OF LOVE (Picture -advert for Noyes’ Cupid Club in Pattaya. The picture was stolen. See note at end of story*) In a shock move the Chief Editor of the Pattaya Times American Drew Noyes has fired his Thai publisher. And he has taken an advert […]
-THAIS TELL GERMAN TO FICK OFF! – Flying Sporran’s Weekend Diary- I was a little startled to see at the weekend a protest by Thais against a German national who stabbed to death a Labrador belonging to a Thai Royal Navy Chief Petty Officer. The German national claimed that the unleashed Labrador, or Golden Retriever […]
-FOUR CASES IN ONE DAY FOR PATTAYA MEDIA MOGUL – AND THEN TWO MORE- Family man Drew Noyes – the controversial boss of a ‘law’ company in Pattaya called P.A.P.P.A is being sued for child support in Chonburi Provincial Court. A case against Noyes, 56, also Chief Editor of the Pattaya Times and self professed […]
– AMERICAN CHIEF EDITOR AND ‘LIBEL EXPERT’ CLAIMS HIS STAFF BETRAYED HIM- WAS IT THE VEGETARIAN FOOD WRITER,THE BRAZILIAN SNAPPER OR REALLY THE CHIEF EDITOR AFTER ALL? SURELY NOT THE GAY ENGLISH VICAR IN THIS CLASSIC PATTAYA WHODUNNIT? (Picture -U.S. Ambassador to Thailand with Drew Noyes) The chief editor of an English language newspaper in […]
DREW NOYES DEFAMED SEASONAL SANTA – claim. (Photo Santa Andre Machielsen) -American ‘businessman’ Drew Noyes defamed a seasonal Santa Claus by putting a statement on the net describing him as a drugs dealer, a libel court heard in Pattaya today. Hearing that the Pattaya City Expat Clubs talked about putting an internet warning about him, […]
-Journalist bought off with two Heinekens and a Cottage Pie- -Flying Sporran’s Weekend Dairy- This space was reserved for an exposé of a human trafficking link between Pattaya and the UK. I am afraid it was however sort of hijacked by two free beers, a rather nice Cottage Pie, so large I was unable to […]
Drew Noyes- Wanrapa Boonsu – COUPLE ON BAIL FOR EXTORTION POCKETED ‘THAI WIFE’S’ PAY-OFF – CLAIM. Drew Noyes and Wanrapa Boonsu- the controversial couple behind the Pattaya Times newspaper and a supposed law company in Pattaya called P.A.P.P.A have been accused of swindling another foreigner out of 2.5 million baht while they were on bail […]
Coming Soon – A Can Of Worms. – Following an earlier report here owners of Emerald Palace condominium in Pattaya who found that their properties had been hawked to the Kasikorn Bank by a local developer have received a sympathetic hearing at the local office of the Attorney General. With all the faffing about which […]
Andrew Drummond is a British independent journalist and occasional television documentary maker. He is a former Fleet Street, London, journalist having worked at the Evening Standard, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, News of the World, Observer and The Times.