Flying Sporran
Briton gunned down in Thailand was nicknamed 'The Wounded Buffalo'.
” I did not have anything to do with his murder” says young Thai wife ANDREW DRUMMOND, BANGKOK SEPTEMBER 01 2012 The 29-year-old Thai wife of retired British railway man nicknamed ‘The Wounded Buffalo’, who was gunned down last week in rural Thailand, said today (SAT) that he was killed because he caused trouble with […]
Owner of 'Pattaya-Today.Com' renews sex-tourism domains on the internet
But not is all as it seems! Flying Sporran’s Pattaya Week-end Diary Apparently on the look-out for opportunities the owner of Pattaya-Today.com has renewed two sex tourism domains on the internet. That’s odd because I would have staked money on the fact that Pattaya Today is definitely not one of the dodgy Pattaya English language […]
The last thing you need here is a den of British thieves! – OutgoingAmbassador in Pattaya
Ambassadors, belly dancers, British crooks and spooks, but not necessarily in that order! Bangkok Diary August 9 2012 This Friday the British Ambassador to Thailand, Asif Ahmad, relinquishes his post and goes back home to learn another language and come back to South East Asia to head up another, as yet un-named mission. You won’t get […]
Downtown 'Death Hotel' Dies in 4 minute video
August 8 2012 Comment The controversy raged on and on for months and months – but the demise of the ‘Downtown Inn’ in Chiang Mai – has now been reduced to a four minute music video on you tube. The Downtown Inn hit the headlines last year when a number of people died either on […]
Catch Us If You Can! Another British Consul resigns
The Flying Sporran’s Bangkok Diary July 22 2012 Gordon Bennett! The British Consulate in Pattaya – once dubbed the world’s busiest – will be holding some erratic opening hours until further notice due to the resignation of the Thai born current Vice-Consul. Leela Bennett, the big cheese in Pattaya, it is understood, wished a transfer […]
Pattaya People found guilty of libel. Bosses innocent
Niels Colov, Pattaya Publisher and police volunteerFrom Andrew Drummond, July 4 2012 The Pattaya People was today found guilty of criminal libel and has been ordered to pay compensation of 500,000 Thai baht to an Australian managed property company which a court ruled the newspaper had defamed. The CEO of the ‘Pattaya People’, Copenhagen man-about-town and one time […]
DREW NOYES – THE JUDGEMENT
Drew Noyes – the claims – the truth
We can identify Britain's unknown soldiers on the Death Railway!
From Andrew Drummond, Kanchanaburi, Thailand June 17 2012 The historical adviser to the film ‘The Railway Man’ said he hoped to clear the mystery of Britain’s ‘unknown soldiers’ buried in the war cemeteries in Thailand and Burma at the close of the Second World War. Rod Beattie, director of the Thailand-Burma Railway Centre, and representative […]
Exposed! Thailand's 'Mr.Stig'
Coming tomorrow on www.andrew-drummond.com . He laughs in the face of danger. He was stabbed by a Vietnamese bar owner in the hunt for Gary Glitter, stared down a ‘Chelsea headhunter’ as this site’s host was beaten to a pulp in Pattaya, and bravely sipped pina coladas in the pursuit of the Duke of York and […]
Balloons On Bangkok's Sky Train – The Sequel
Flying Sporran’s Bangkok Diary June 7 2012. A short update on an incident earlier this year when a young Irish teacher overreacted and suffered the consequences after taking his six-year-old daughter’s balloons onto the Bangkok Sky Train. Also a guide for readers on what not to take on to the city’s mass transit system. Good heavens what is […]
