Thailand or Cambodia – who is right?
The current conflict between Cambodia and Thailand is doing nothing for Thailand, northing for Cambodia, and nothing for ASEANWhile this issue has been on the cards for many years it appeared to have resolved itself for a while and Thais could apparently live in harmony with their neighbours, while the issue rumbled on inconsequentially in […]
60 Minutes New Zealand – Will The Thai Authorities Come Clean?
Link to Daily Mail A programme by 60 Minutes in New Zealand last night suggested that the victims who died in the Downtown Inn in Chiang Mai earlier this year died from exposure to chlorpyrifos which is essentially a poison used to kill bed bugs. Chlorpyrifos is banned in many countries and in any case should […]
Scot who confessed to a killing to Andrew Drummond is extradited to Australia
From ANDREW DRUMMONDBangkokMay 6 2011 Edinburgh born Anthony Prestidge, best known as ‘Scots Tony’, wanted in Britain for armed robbery and in Australia for murder has been extradited to Australia for trial.Prestidge, more than six years ago confessed to me that he killed his brother in law Andy Arthur Ball in Perth, and at the time said […]
Britains FSA Moves On Bangkok Boiler Rooms. Somebody Is Going To Do Real Jail Time
From ANDREW DRUMMOND,BANGKOKMAY 6 2011 Britain’s secretive Financial Services Authority have begun operations in Bangkok in a bid to rack up their operations against international boiler rooms a few notches.A team has been in the capital for the last week engaged in discussions with officers at the Crime Suppression Division and counterparts in other Embassies […]
Police Video Children Who Were Padlocked In Well
From ANDREW DRUMMOND, Bangkok Welfare officials in Thailand have interviewed two Irish children aged 12 and 9, who were allegedly thrown down a well, while their father was away on a business trip and being robbed of his property. How the Daily Mail May 2 2011 ran with the story Police in Chalong, Phuket, interviewed […]
Children Padlocked In Well As Irish Father Is Robbed Of Six Houses In Phuket
‘We have been advised by the police to move location every three days’ FROM ANDREW DRUMMOND, SURAT THANI, THAILAND May 1st 2011 Two children of an Irish businessman were thrown into a well while his housekeeper working with ‘organised criminals’ set about to defraud him of his mansion and six other houses on the Thai island […]
News Blackout Imposed For Royal Wedding
FROM ANDREW DRUMMOND,BANGKOK, APRIL 29TH, 2011 This week there is a blackout on news back in Britain and it’s not all bad. The reason is of course because of THE WEDDING.I’m all for a good party and why not celebrate the future marriage of the future King and Queen of England, so I have not […]
BBC's shagadelic correspondent bows out of Bangkok
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 […]
Thailand's 'Dogs Of The Internet' Part 1 Buriram Boy
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 […]
Briton Charged With Kidnap-Murder Of 6-Yr-Old In Cebu
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 […]
