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The Times February 5th 1998Thai police free tribal captives in ‘human zoo’.Inquiry begins after Times campaign forces closure of ‘tourist attraction’, Andrew Drummond reportsARMED police and local militia raided a remote village in northern Thailand yesterday and released 33 people from a Burmese Padaung hill tribe of long-necked women, who had been kept in captivity […]

Welcome to the world of Thai journalism By Andrew Drummond 21.11.01 They met, over a meal of catfish and whisky, on a smart riverboat restaurant. Within a few minutes, the deck was soaked in blood and three of them were dead. The bloodbath – the result of a difference of opinion between reporters from rival newspapers […]

From Andrew Drummond, Bangkok, November 7thLong-necked women kidnapped for Thailand’s lucrative ‘human zoos Long-necked women kidnapped for Thailand’s lucrative ‘human zoosFrom Andrew Drummond, Bangkok, November 7thPolice in Thailand are investigating new allegations that unscrupulous tour operators have kidnapped Burmese long-necked women for use in lucrative tourist camps known as ‘human zoos’.Six members of the Padaung […]

From Andrew Drummond, Bangkok, November 7thLong-necked women kidnapped for Thailand’s lucrative ‘human zoos              Long-necked women kidnapped for Thailand’s lucrative ‘human zoosFrom Andrew Drummond, Bangkok, November 7thPolice in Thailand are investigating new allegations that unscrupulous tour operators have kidnapped Burmese long-necked women for use in lucrative tourist camps known as ‘human zoos’.Six members of the Padaung Burmese […]

From Andrew Drummond, Bangkok, November 2 2007Briton who ran a world-wide drugs syndicate from his mansion home in Thailand was arrested last night as he was packing drugs for a ‘high society’ Halloween party.Marcus James, 48, from Lewisham, South London, was seized along with his common-law Thai wife Linrat Chalwatworachot, 36, at his £1 million […]

LORD OF THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE DIES IN RANGOONFrom Andrew Drummond,BangkokOnce dubbed the ‘Prince of Death’ and accused of being the world’s most prolific heroin trafficker, Khun Sa, also known as Chan Chi-Fu, was cremated yesterday in Rangoon, Burma, aged 74.Khun Sa preferred to be known as ‘Prince of Prosperity’ or ‘Lord of the Golden Triangle’ […]

British pensioner paedophile arrested in Thailand with more than 20,000 obscene imagesLast updated at 16:03pm on 23rd October 2007 A British pensioner has been arrested on paedophile charges in Thailand after police said he had been found in possession of 100 times more pictures than infamous paedophile Canadian Christopher Neil, whose swirly disguised face was […]

SEIZED: HOW ‘SWIRLY’ PAEDOPHILE WORKED WITH BOYS ALL HIS LIFE EXPOSED: Neil, 32, once worked as a chaplainSaturday October 20,2007By Andrew Drummond in Bangkok and Cyril Dixon in London THE world’s most wanted paedophile was paraded in public yesterday after a global manhunt traced him to a remote bolthole in Thailand.Christopher Neil, 32, was flown to Bangkok […]

Andrew Drummond, in Bangkok , October 17 2007A suspected paedophile on the run from Interpol apparently boasted about getting a job in a Vietnam school without police checks and advised fellow teachers how to delete pornography on their computers.Christopher Neil, 32, from British Columbia, Canada, is being hunted after allegedly posting some 200 pictures on […]

October 16, 2007Police close in on the internet paedophileA prolific paedophile at the centre of an international manhunt is believed to be an English language teacher living in Thailand, police said yesterday.Last week Interpol made an unprecedented global appeal to catch the man, codenamed Vico, who is shown sexually abusing children in about 200 images […]