General News

Pattaya Newspaper Publishers AskedTo Return To Witness Box. May 3 2012 The Pattaya Court, Tuesday, dismissed an injunction by Pattaya Times publisher Drew Walter Noyes to close down the website www.andrew-drummond.com as it breached proper procedures. And a court has set Saturday May 26th to re-open a libel case after witnesses Drew Noyes, Niels Colov […]

GUESS WHO PATTAYA’S FOREIGN POLICE CHIEF WENT TO VISIT ON HIS SUMMER HOLIDAYS? Niels Colov, the black uniformed Project Leader for Pattaya’s Foreign Volunteer Police department, consorted with hardened Danish criminals on trips home to Denmark. One of his more recent trips, Colov, also the publisher of The Pattaya People newspaper, went to visit his […]

EMBASSY CONTROVERSY – STAFF EVACUATED AFTER MOULD FOUND IN STAFF HOUSINGFrom ANDREW DRUMMOND, in Bangkok and GEORGE ARBUTHNOTT in LondonApril 29 2012The British Government faces having to sue contractors after a large part of its British Embassy in Thailand was forced to be evacuated and declared a health hazard due to ‘mould’. Today as the […]

INFAMY! INFAMY! THEY’VE ALL GOT IT ‘IN FOR ME’ANDREW DRUMMOND, 28 April 2012British child abuser David Fletcher, exposed by the ‘Flying Sporran’, after being caught grooming kids on a Phnom Penh garbage dump and attempting to buy a teenage bride, has written from prison in Thailand promising to expose his enemies. Lording it in a […]

Arise Sir Howard of Walking Street? From ANDREW DRUMMOND April 27 2012 Howard Miller one of the most famous Brits in Pattaya and almost on a par with the legendary Barry Kenyon, MBE,  his predecessor as Honorary or Corresponding Consul, has been nominated for an award for ‘exhibiting consular excellence’. The award known as the […]

New Stink Over Vegetable Scoop Which Made US Reporter Flee Thailand From ANDREW DRUMMOND, April 19 2012 A  newspaper story about how the director of Thailand’s ‘National Innovation Agency’ allegedly plagiarised his PhD thesis and an academic paper about organic asparagus production from other academics, has been given new life in the British’Times Higher Educational‘ […]

But Brit had colourful history of public order offencesANDREW DRUMMOND, BangkokApril 10 2012  An investigation is reported to have started into how a Briton arrested on a charge of stealing a motor-cycle died behind bars within days of his arrest in the Thai resort of Pattaya. A British Foreign & Commonwealth spokesman confirmed early today […]

From Andrew Drummond,Bangkok, April 3 2012 A shocking video featuring the capture, beating, and skinning of dogs in Thailand for the Vietnamese restaurant trade looks set to anger animal lovers worldwide. Although Thailand is a Buddhist country, which frowns on the killing of any living being, the video released by a new organisation called the Animal […]

From ANDREW DRUMMOND,Bangkok, March 26 2012 The President of ‘The Grey Man’ an Australian registered charity has resigned two months after the charity was exposed on this site for ‘hyping’ a rescue of 21 Akha hill tribe children in Chiang Rai, Northern Thailand. Sean McBride, also known as John Curtis, made the announcement after Lindsay […]

DREW NOYES REMANDED – DESCRIBES CRIME SCENE IN RESTAURANT REVIEW  Pattaya Times publisher Drew Walter Noyes has now been remanded at Pattaya Court on a charge of extortion. His newspaper does not record his arrest, but in a restaurant review this week a Pattaya Times ‘staff reporter’ describes the alleged crime scene.Noyes, who was arrested a week […]