Flying Sporran

Got suited up last night to head for the British Embassy hosted QBP at the Erawan Hotel. In the middle of Sukhumvit I was diverted.  And then, after the whispered’ You even more hamsum today andloo’,  the sound of ‘God Save the Queen’ was soon far from my mind.QBP? Yes QBP.  Its apparently Embassy speak for the Queen’s Birthday Party […]

Dramatic pictures show British journalist Andrew Drummond fleeing Bangkok as was forecast by American Drew Noyes ‘Editor-in-Chief’ of the Bangkok Post ‘partner’ newspaper the ‘Pattaya Times’. But seriously you’ll have to read first about more people who were duped by the man who describes himself as the ‘most credible, friendly, reassuring professional to make Thailand […]

The Royal Thai Police today strongly denied claims made by American Drew Noyes in the Pattaya Times that they were seeking to arrest a British journalist and close down his website.Reports of the hunt for Andrew Drummond, a foreign correspondent in Thailand for nearly 25 years, were wildly exaggerated, and his website www.andrew.local was not the […]

From ANDREW DRUMMOND,Bangkok,  October 10 2011 Pictures Andrew Chant/BoemFor Daily MailA retired Briton was under arrest in Thailand and facing 25 years in jail today after pulling off an armed bank heist in the Northern capital of Chiang Mai.Michael Wynn – The bitter end of the huntMichael Wynn, 63, was arrested early this morning (Monday) […]

From ANDREW DRUMMONDBangkokSunday October 9 2011An Irish father and his two young children have been told to stay in hiding for least another year in Thailand as investigations continue into corruption allegations involving police on the holiday island of Phuket. Colin Vard, 57, cousin of the famous Irish singing trio The Vard Sisters, and himself a former […]

FROM ANDREW DRUMMOND Bangkok, October 5 2011 A reader has just sent me the link to ‘Media in Thailand’  – a summary of the Fourth Estate here by Wikipedia. This review had me chuckling not least because of its entry about the Pattaya Times – slogan ‘News you can use!’. In its initial blurb about newspapers it mentioned the […]

From ANDREW DRUMMOND Bangkok, September 27 2011 A fake Facebook created with the name Andrew Drummond and loaded with highly inflammatory marks which would automatically be ruled as lese majeste in Thailand, was last night detected, and reported to the Thai authorities. The false Facebook page came on line earlier the day. I was alerted […]

Ref: Nazi schoolgirls start a Heil storm in ThailandStatement of the Simon Wiesenthal Center – 27-9-2011 The Simon Wiesenthal Center is calling on Thailand’s Christian leaders to condemn a Nazi parade at the Sacred Heart Preparatory School in Chiang Mai led by students who participated in a Nazi parade replete with Seig Heil salutes. “The Simon Wiesenthal […]

From ANDREW DRUMMOND, BangkokSeptember 26 2011Daily Mail Students in a school in the northern Thai capital of Chiang Mai thought they would give their teachers and parents a surprise on their Summer Sports Day.They kept their secret under wraps until the day was upon them and then with flourish and a fanfare they arrived to […]

A top ranking executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland was described as an ‘arrogant bully’ today after he got out of his top of the line Bentley Sports to smash and break the windscreen of a Mercedes with his bare fists.RBS’s head of EM, Credit Structuring and Repacking Asia Pacific was today accused of terrorising […]