Followers of the BBC’s Alastair Leithead will not be in the least surprised to know that ‘Al’ has gone Hollywood, after a mild but recurring case of ‘gone troppo’.Al and yours trulyUsed to dodging bullets in Afghanistan Alastair is possibly the BBC’s most sartorial correspondent with a wide range of helmets all designed to match […]

Prosecution of stalker ‘Buriram boy’ could help battered wives to speak out – court told From ANDREW DRUMMOND Bangkok, April 15 2011 Well it’s been a little bit quiet here for a week mainly because I have been on a couple of assignments which I cannot write about until they hit the print media. But I […]

From ANDREW DRUMMOND,Bangkok, April 1 2011 Daily Mail A British accountant and his Filipina girlfriend have been charged in their abscence with the kidnap and murder of a six-year-old girl on the Philippines island of Cebu. Ian Charles Griffiths, 48, from South West London, is reported to have kidnapped the girl from outside a school […]

FROM ANDREW DRUMMONDBANGKOKMarch 29 2011 I am not sure whether the BBC bothered to get all the required permissions but as Thailand this year is being promoted as a foreign film hub perhaps the boys and girls from the corporation managed to slip in under the counter during the celebrations. Living the agony: Stacey working […]

From Andrew Drummond, Bangkok,March 31 2011Five months after he was found wasting away chained to cell bars in Pattaya police station Briton Richard Hewitt has still not been allowed home, because of legal complications which have delayed a simple case of overstaying his visa.Hewitt, 48, from Brownhills, Birmingham, now revealed in his youth as being a […]

FROM ANDREW DRUMMOND, BANGKOKMarch 31 2011The father of a 23-yr-old New Zealand woman who died in hospital in Chiang Mai after being taken seriously ill in a city centre hotel is launching a website to warn travellers that Thailand is no real paradise.Richard Carter, father of Sarah Carter said: ‘We just want to make travellers […]

Bonne Rind is a fighter and she is appalled at a system which allows the bosses of an airline, which has flagrantly disregarded the safety of its passengers, to get off scot free. Bonne Rind Bonnie no doubt remains unphased any more by the lack of any campaigning action by the Thai press. As she […]

Dear Reader, I have succumbed. After a couple of years jotting away on a basic WordPress site, this site is now being revamped and will be up next week in its new glory and no doubt with a few glitches. I may be even off air for a short while.But its a bit like buying […]

Tough turkey says wife ‘This is Thailand’Plucking away in Hua Hin in bygone days Joe Stanyer, 57, was the equivalent of Britain’s Bernard Matthews, but things are now not so ‘bootiful’ for the former farm labourer from Shifnal, Shropshire.He says his Thai wife sold 8 acres of his ten acre farm from under him and […]

So today yet more people are coming forward to announce the unusual death of a foreigner in Chiang Mai. Could this Canadian death be linked to the recent spate of deaths of foreigners and one Thai in the northern capital Chiang Mai? And will we ever know?  Probably not. But the next of kin are […]