Death Charges Confirmed On British Woman In Malaysia
From ANDREW DRUMMOND,Kota BahruDecember 23 2010 Shivaun and Ram Naruzal Shima heading for court THE daughter of a British nuclear weapons scientist is facing death by hanging after being formally charged with drug trafficking in Malaysia. Mother-of-two Shivaun Orton, whose late father Mike worked at Aldermaston weapons research centre, has been transferred in custody to […]
Ewan Mcgregor In 'Stabbing' Drama On Thai Film Set
From ANDREW DRUMMOND,Bangkok, December 22 2010 Production of the Hollywood film ‘The Impossible’ had to be stopped in Thailand after actor Ewan McGregor appeared to receive a death threat in verse from his stand-in. The crew for the film, centred on a British family’s ordeal during the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami, had to stand down […]
I Was Raped And Held Captive' Says British Woman
From ANDREW DRUMMOND Kemaman, Terengganu, Malaysia Dressed in orange prison robes and handcuffed to a fellow suspect, this is the daughter of a British nuclear scientist facing the death penalty in Malaysia for drugs trafficking. Shivaun and Ram Naruzal Shima heading for court Shivaun Orton, 41, and her husband were arrested after police found ?16,000 […]
Daughter Of British Nuclear Physicist Faces Death Malaysia
From ANDREW DRUMMOND, BangkokDecember 16 2010 The daughter of a former British nuclear health physicist faces the mandatory death sentence in Malaysia for drugs trafficking after a police raid on a holiday resort there. Shivaun A Malaysian police chief said today that Shivaun Patra Orton from Bangor, Wales, already faces life imprisonment on cannabis, amphetamine […]
Briton Was Not Mistreated' – Pattaya Police
From Andrew Drummond, Bangkok, December 12 2010 Pattaya Police Superintendent, Colonel Nunthawut Suwanla-ong, has denied reports that a British visa overstayer was mistreated in the police cells at the local police station on Beach Road, Pattaya. In a statement to the Pattaya Daily News, issued to ‘counter allegations by the foreign media’ the Superintendent said […]
Culture Shock! A Thai 'Bride's' Fight For Dignity
The thrice times Scottish kilt maker, 67, and a Thai magazine editor – a recipe for misunderstanding? From ANDREW DRUMMOND, BANGKOK, Scottish Daily Mail December 11 2010 Scots kilt-maker Dennis Booth probably had no inkling that he was heading for stardom when he looked to the internet for romance…..now he is perhaps the most famous […]
Saved By An Angel – Pattaya Brit In Hospital
FROM ANDREW DRUMMOND BANGKOK December 8 2010 A Briton found languishing, naked, and tied to the bars of a prisoncell in Pattaya police station has been saved by an angel appearing in the form of an expatriate British woman living in Pattaya. Naked and cuffed to the cell bars And after being scrubbed and clothed […]
A Pattaya Horror Story
From ANDREW DRUMMOND,Bangkok, December 7 2010 Naked and cuffed to the cell bars These horrific pictures show a 53-yr-old Briton wasting away naked in a Thai police station and cuffed to the bars of his cell. He is reported to have been there for three months, but certainly since November 23th, but nobody has sent him […]
Brits Flee Bangkok Boiler Room
From ANDREW DRUMMONDBangkok December 01 2010 Six Britons have fled Bangkok after taking salesmen jobs there only to find out that they were being asked to work for one of the city’s notorious ‘Boiler Room’ scams. Srinakarinplad boiler room man arrives with lunch pack At least one, a card carrying member of Britain’s Labour Party, […]
I Am Helping Tourism', Says US Porn Man
ANDREW DRUMMOND November 28 2010 NEWSBLOG American Tony Poer the pornographer whose arrest reports were wiped clean from all the newspapers in Pattaya claimed yesterday that women flocked to be filmed and his arrest ‘never happened’. This never happened ‘The matter has been dealt with. As far as everyone is concerned it never happened and […]
