Flying Sporran

DOGS OF SOCCER WARSunday Mirror, May 5, 2002 by ANDY GARDNER, ANDREW DRUMMONDBRITISH soccer hooligans are secretly plotting to wreck the World Cup.More than 100 violent hard-core thugs are determined to wreak havoc in Japan after slipping into the country from Thailand.The plan to disrupt the soccer tournament has been hatched by notorious troublemakers Chris […]

The Times February 5th 1998 Thai 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 […]

The Times January 27 1998 An official inquiry into a labour camp where tribespeople are forced to perform for tourists has called for those responsible to be prosecuted. Andrew Drummond reports from Bangkok on a scandal exposed by The Times A THAI government inquiry has confirmed a report in The Times on a slave labour camp, […]

 The Times January 4 1998Members of a Burmese tribe who were rescued from captivity by welfare workers have been sent back to their kidnappers by Thai police, Andrew Drummond reports from Mai AiAN attempt to free the captive women and children of a Burmese long-necked hill tribe, who have been kept under guard as a […]

The Times Nov 22 1997Tourists are contributing to Thai slavery writes Andrew DrummondWOMEN from a remote Burmese hill tribe who are renowned for their long necks are being used as exhibits in a human zoo in Thailand, where they sought refuge after fleeing from Burma’s military junta.Three of the villagers, who have been found by […]

Pattaya’ Perfect DilemmaAndrew Drummond for The Nation, BangkokMarch 30th 1997Pattaya’s Perfect DilemmaHoteliers, tourist authority and city officials, a newspaper publisher, and local politicians last week invited foreign journalists based in Thailand down to the resort of Pattaya to promote the resort and air their complaints of unfair press reporting.The city regularly appears in foreign newspapers […]

THE TIMES WEDNESDAY JULY 30 1997Andrew Drummond on his old friend Nate Thayer, who found Cambodia’s butcherLast Friday, Nate Thayer achieved every journalist’s dream when he scooped the world by meeting, and obtaining footage of, Pol Pot.By Monday, he was going through every journalist’s nightmare ‘ holed up in a Bangkok hotel, struggling to write […]

Pattaya’ Perfect DilemmaAndrew Drummond for The Nation, BangkokMarch 30th 1997Pattaya’s Perfect DilemmaHoteliers, tourist authority and city officials, a newspaper publisher, and local politicians last week invited foreign journalists based in Thailand down to the resort of Pattaya to promote the resort and air their complaints of unfair press reporting.The city regularly appears in foreign newspapers […]

Evening Standard February 26 1991This is a story from the World Cities column in the Evening Standard in 1991.This has been included because it seems to say ‘the more things change the more they stay the same’When the tanks rolled in again in 2006 the people said it with flowers. The ousted Prime Minister Chatichai […]

ObserverIn April 1987 Andrew Drummond, while working for The Observer, went in search of Bruno Manser who was supporting the Penan tribe in Sarawak’s 6th Division in their blowpipe war againt government supported loggers.At the time the Malaysian government actively discouraged journalists from visiting Sarawak