Investigations

From The Sun and the Daily Star, January 11 2008  Pictures by Reuters and Andrew Chant Of course as this frog is in a Catatonic state the video is not quite so good!Hopper on a chopper! Spawn to be wild, Going down the old frog and toad!  Rev it! Rev it! – a good day for […]

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 […]

 Villagers contradict Canadian girl’s story – CBCPai Shooting Analysis – The NationCanadian Carly Reisig, who witnessed her best friend being shot to death by a Thai policeman before being shot herself, last night defended herself from reports that she had been a ‘troublemaker’ in the murder village.But she admitted that she had been involved in […]

Nation: Cop executed my best friend Canadian recounts Thai shooting that killed friend – Toronto StarIn 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 Columbia, […]

 *SUN story here A British registered sex-offender who used a false University degree obtained in the Khao San Road to get a job in a temple school in suburban Bangkok was being held at the Immigration Detention Centre last night. Alan Thomas Smith, 54, from Accrington, Lancashire, was seized after leaving the Nong Yai temple […]

Allies of deposed PM claim victory in Thai electionLast Updated: Sunday, December 23, 2007 | 12:39 PM ETCBC NewsAllies of Thailand’s deposed prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, have won the first parliamentary election since a 2006 military coup, according to initial election results released Sunday.But the People’s Power Party (PPP) appears to have fallen just short […]

Unmasked – The ‘Weakest Link’ child sex-offender * Touch of a paedophile – The SUN *Sex case teacher loses his job *I’ll be Santa says British sex-offender – The SUN From Andrew Drummond, Bangkok, December 18 2007 This man claims to have worked for UNICEF – the United Nation’s Children Fund – and here he […]

The Times February 5th 1998Thai 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 captivity […]

Welcome to the world of Thai journalism By Andrew Drummond 21.11.01 They met, over a meal of catfish and whisky, on a smart riverboat restaurant. Within a few minutes, the deck was soaked in blood and three of them were dead. The bloodbath – the result of a difference of opinion between reporters from rival newspapers […]

From Andrew Drummond, Bangkok, November 7thLong-necked women kidnapped for Thailand’s lucrative ‘human zoos Long-necked women kidnapped for Thailand’s lucrative ‘human zoosFrom Andrew Drummond, Bangkok, November 7thPolice in Thailand are investigating new allegations that unscrupulous tour operators have kidnapped Burmese long-necked women for use in lucrative tourist camps known as ‘human zoos’.Six members of the Padaung […]