Flying Sporran

MYSTERY G-MAIL MAN’S EMAIL THREATS- ‘WANT TO PLAY ROUGH?’- BAT CAVE MAN OR JOKER? A judge in Pattaya, Thailand, has ruled that there was insufficient evidence to prove that Drew Walter Noyes, a man exposed by a newspaper in the United States for fraud, and not being able to recognise what the truth is, was […]

THE PATTAYA TRUTH – OUT AT LAST A libel case brought by Pattaya businessman Andre Machielsen against Drew Noyes, the city’s most famous American was today dismissed by a judge at the Pattaya Provincial Court on the grounds of insufficient evidence.  Drew Noyes, the founding father of the prestigious Pattaya Times, and one of Thailand’s foremost […]

HAVE I BEEN KIPPERED AGAIN? (pic ANNIE tripped in classroom) Well I guess we have all had it at one time or other – those Thai hospital bills when you go in for a minor ailment in Thailand and are sent packing with piles of pills and a big bill. It’s happened to me many […]

Flying Sporran’s Mid-Week Diary UNESCO TO PROBE FAKE AWARDS IN THAILAND  Picture-Thailand Professionals I took time off this week to attend a conference in Pattaya about combatting foreign crime. Mayor Ittiphol Khonpluem put up a very good show appearing genuinely interested in combatting crimes against foreigners (and presumably by foreigners too). There was an impressive […]

-While Burma is chasing the $ – Let’s not forget it is also still chasing its ethnic minorities. -Flying Sporran Weekend Diary- -While Myanmar is coming out of its shell there is very little sign of a let up in its army’s war with its ethnic minorities – the biggest of which are the Karen, […]

– -A Pattaya Times Exclusive –  The paper where news runs all down your leg (I’ve got Drummond on the run says Drew Noyes) Thailand’s seemingly greatest English language newspaper the Pattaya Times which boasts a readership of 500,000 reading a print run of 5000 has broken with the news that Andrew Drummond, correspondent of […]

-HAS TOM ARMSTRONG GONE AWOL OR IS THERE SOMETHING MORE SINISTER – MAYBE YOU CAN HELP. This story has had a mention on the internet before but a family in England are worried sick about what could have happened to 22-year-old Tom Armstrong a young Briton who has gone missing here. Now Suffolk Police have […]

-A Flying Sporran Panic Attack!- I guess there must be more than a few people like me in Thailand who have kids here but not the cash to pay the massive fees demanded by international schools – some even more expensive than Eton. This is one subject  which can bring me close to tears or […]

The Flying Sporran’s Full Moon Diary- Nobody dances outside the Zoom Bar on the Thai island of Koh Phangan anymore. Well they won’t until the fuss dies down.   It was closed down by police order after Briton Stephen Ashton took a bullet in his side on New Year’s morning. I don’t suppose the bar […]

Oh dear – our coffers are empty and I have to go to court with lawyers three times again towards the end of this month against our famous American Drew Noyes. These are not serious cases and I expect them to be thrown out, but he is obviously still trying to close this site down […]