Thailand’s Supreme Court has issued another arrest warrant for Thaksin Shinawatra, the ousted premier, this time for cashing in on Burma’s military junta while offering himself as a mediator with the repressive regime.While Mr Thaksin, until recently owner of Manchester City F.C., offered Thailand as host country for talks with Burma, he was secretly cashing […]

Thailand was in a political deadlock today after the country’s parliament could not find a quorum to vote in a new Prime Minister.Deposed Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej, who was forced to resign for breaking conflict of interest laws by going on a television show called Cooking and Grumbling, had hoped coalition government members, who have […]

Thousands  of tourists , hundreds of them British, continued their slow evacuation from the Thai capital Bangkok tonight as a ‘State of Emergency’ declared by the government provided a lull in violence.The  state enterprise unions, who have joined the anti-government protest, allowed flights to continue uninterrupted from Bangkok and the country’s southern resorts of Phuket […]

An uneasy truce hung over Bangkok today after State of Emergency was declared at the end of a night of violence in the Thai capital.Children were sent scurrying home from schools, workers went on strike, tourists, thousands of them British, struggled to get out of the country, and anti-government protesters dug themselves deeper into Government […]

Thousands of Britons were trapped in Thailand last night as mobs protesting against the country’s ‘corrupt’ government laid siege to airports in tourist hot spots. Some 15,000 people were turned away from the airport on the holiday island of Phuket after protesters from the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) stormed the runway and terminals.Stranded passengers […]

Not by Andrew Drummond. But quotes him. An overview of touring child abusers and some of the cases Andrew Drummond has coveredLink to Scotland on Sunday articlepublish Date: 24 August 2008By Dani GaravelliIN HEATHROW Airport, the atmosphere was tense. As the plane bound from Thailand touched down, police officers took up their positions, paparazzi photographers […]

REJECTED BY VIETNAM, THAILAND, HONG KONG, NOW POP PERVERT GLITTER AGREES TO RETURN TO BRITAINPaedophile Gary Glitter has agreed to fly back to Britain after two days in international limbo as he was refused entry to Hong Kong and Thailand, according to Thai police.Officers said the disgraced former pop star has finally agreed to board […]

Glitter, aka, Paul Gadd tries to negotiate himself out of Hong KongThe disgraced glam-rocker Gary Glitter has finally agreed to return home to Britain after falling for a trick by Thai police, with a little help from their colleagues in Hong Kong.The 64-year-old convicted paedophile sat alone tonight on a bench seat in Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi […]

Gary Glitter’s return prompts tighter sex offender lawsRichard Ford, Jack Malvern and Andrew Drummond in Bangkok Child sex offenders are to face tighter travel restrictions after it emerged that existing laws would not curb Gary Glitter’s movements after he returns to Britain.The measures to be announced by the Home Office today come as the 1970s glam-rock […]

Glitter skips his flight home after jail releaseLink to Independent storyBy Mark Hughes and Andrew Drummond at Suvarnabhumi Airport, BangkokWednesday, 20 August 2008The convicted paedophile Gary Glitter made a hysterical but successful break for freedom last night as he was being deported from Vietnam to Britain after serving nearly three years in prison for child […]