General News

  EXPOSED: Was this the biggest child rescue in years or just one big hype?  From ANDREW DRUMMOND, Bangkok – January 6th 2012 Link:Doubt cast over The Grey Man’s rescue claims: The AustralianOfficers of the Australian Federal Police were summoned to the Thai government complex in Bangkok today (Friday) and urged to look into the alleged fake rescue from […]

European Court accepts plea of Thai wife married to Scots kilt maker Now she claims HE had ‘Turkish delights’ From ANDREW DRUMMOND, Bangkok December 25 2011 A Thai wife, who was blocked from returning to Scotland after her kilt-maker husband told British Border Agency officers that she had deserted him and was having an affair, has […]

WAR OVER PATTAYA 105 INTERVIEW Andrew Drummond December 21 2010 Pattaya 105 – The Big Show with Andrew Drummond Shucks. It seemed like Gettysburg all over again. From the north came Stuart Furstman, 63, a no-nonsense New York publisher, who let off a barrage of abuse at the Southerner he says has cheated him. Then […]

ANDREW DRUMMONDDecember 19 2011(This story has been re-submitted after a programme glitch)Soi Thonglor in Bangkok is best known for its upmarket bars and restaurants and is a fitting place for such a noble institution as the Accademia Italiana, a place of learning for followers of fashion and design. So it’s hard to believe how this […]

FROM ANDREW DRUMMOND,Bangkok, November 29 2011(Updated December 1 2011) A Philippines senator has been asked to look at the case of a young Filipina woman, who was enticed to work in the Thai beach resort of Pattaya by an American newspaper publisher, then forced to leave after she claimed she refused to become his mistress.Although the woman, […]

FROM ANDREW DRUMMOND, BANGKOK NOVEMBER 23 2011 A 69-year-old Briton and regular on the Pattaya gay forums has won undisclosed damages from the SUN newspaper after they described him a ‘paedo’ when he was arrested in a joint CEOP-Thai Police operation in May 2009. George Stanley Gibbs was subsequently acquitted of all charges except immigration offences. At the time […]

FROM ANDREW DRUMMOND, BANGKOK November 17 2011 The outgoing President of a Pattaya Rotary Club reacted with vengeance today after allegations that he scammed scores of foreigners out of their homes, and cheated them on rents. 63-yr-old Richard Haughton ordered water and electricity to be cut off from residents from his Lake Villas project  in Pattaya […]

From ANDREW DRUMMOND, BangkokNovember 16 2011  Officials of Pattaya’s  Consumer Protection unit have appealed again to the outgoing President of the city’s biggest Rotary Club to attend city hall for an interview over complaints that he has scammed scores of foreigners out of their holiday and retirement homes.As the list of angry victims of the ‘Emerald Palace’ […]

 A British blogger known as Spike Tennyson, who ran a website called ‘Pattayadays’ has apparently fled Thailand after he claims he received threats to his personal safety by Jeff Savage – the Briton caught on video threatening to burn down Central World during the red-shirt troubles in Bangkok. Jeff Savage, 48, from Tonbridge, Kent, pleaded guilty to breaching […]

Dramatic pictures show British journalist Andrew Drummond fleeing Bangkok as was forecast by American Drew Noyes ‘Editor-in-Chief’ of the Bangkok Post ‘partner’ newspaper the ‘Pattaya Times’. But seriously you’ll have to read first about more people who were duped by the man who describes himself as the ‘most credible, friendly, reassuring professional to make Thailand […]