Flying Sporran
Luxury Resorts Where Bodies Of Tourist Litter The Beach
From The TimesDecember 29, 2004Luxury resorts where bodies of tourists litter the beachRemote and exclusive location hinders rescue bidFrom Andrew Drummond in Khao Lak, ThailandTHE shattered luxury beach hotels of Khao Lak began yielding up their dead yesterday as rescue crews battled their way through the debris to discover the full horror of the devastation […]
Witness Tells How Thai Officer Killed British Couple
From Times OnlineSeptember 10, 2004Witness tells how Thai officer killed British coupleFrom Andrew Drummond in Kanchanaburi, and Jenny Booth, Times OnlineA witness has described in graphic detail how she saw a Thai policeman gun down two British tourists in the holiday resort of Kanchanaburi in western Thailand.Adam Lloyd, 24, and Vanessa Arscott, 23, from Torquay, […]
British Couple Shot Dead In Thai Tourist Spot
Damning new evidence has emerged in the case of two Canadians shot by a policeman in the northern town of Pai last month after two eye-witnesses to the drama sought protection from the National Human Rights Commission.The witnesses, (pictured with Human Rights Commissioner Surasee Kosolnavin and DSI Colonel Piyawate Kingkate) a young man and woman […]
Jungle Tribes Losing War Against Loggers
From The TimesJune 4, 2004Jungle tribes losing war against loggersFrom Andrew Drummond in Upper Baram, SarawakIn former days the people here would have taken heads with machetes in retaliation for what has happened to their land and livelihood.But at a dayak longhouse 160 miles up the Baram River in Sarawak, Borneo, a headhunter’s descendant in […]
Powerful Man Of Eastern Promises
From The TimesMay 11, 2004Powerful man of eastern promisesA look at the man behind the bid to buy into LiverpoolFrom Andrew Drummond in BangkokTHE rise to power of Thaksin Shinawatra, Thailand’s Prime Minister, three years ago was secured by projecting himself as a patriotic, iron-fisted, man of the people.His promises to slash rural poverty, set […]
Troops Crush Militants In Thai Uprising
From The TimesApril 29, 2004Troops crush militants in Thai uprisingFrom Andrew Drummond in BangkokTHAI troops killed 34 militants who had hidden in a mosque yesterday during the bloodiest day of violence in 30 years of unrest in the south of the country.Across the region, in the mainly Muslim southern provinces of Pattani, Yala and Songkhla, 132 […]
Burma Rebel Chief Comes Out Of The Jungle To Talk Peace
From The TimesJanuary 16, 2004Burma rebel chief comes out of jungle to talk peaceGeneral flies to Rangoon seeking release of junta opponents in return for laying down armsBy Andrew DrummondAFTER fighting the Burmese military junta for more than 55 years, General Bo Mya, leader of the Karen National Union (KNU), the last large rebel group […]
Canadian tells how Thai policeman murdered her best friend
Nation: Cop executed my best friend Canadian recounts Thai shooting that killed friend – Toronto Star In a carbon copy murder similar to the police execution of two British backpackers in Thailand four years ago – a young Canadian tourist told yesterday how a Thai policeman executed her best friend. Twenty-four-year-old Carly Reisig, from British […]
Palace Bitch From The Slums Wins The Heart Of A Nation
Palace bitch from slums wins the heart of a nationBy Andrew Drummond in BangkokDecember 4 2002More than 100,000 people queued to buy the book of her life on the first day of its sale.And though she is from the humblest of origins she is now the king’s favourite.Tongdaeng (Copper), the former Bangkok stray bitch adopted […]
The Philosopher's Wife
RUNNING FOR HIS LIFE: Scholar: My Thai wife is a murdererAndrew DrummondThe NationBuri Rampublish on Sep 18, 2002An American academic who fled Thailand for Japan alleges that he was tricked into covering up the brutal torture and murder of a Thai bar girl, who he claims was killed by his ex-wife.Police said they were investigating […]
