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Having been reporting on Thailand’s floods and the price of eggs now it’s time to take a break. Whose fault was the flooding? Was it the fault of Thai government, the Bangkok Metropolitan Authority, the Irrigation authorities, Yingluck herself?  I needed to turn to my old bête noire the ‘Pattaya Times’ on the eastern seaboard for some […]

From ANDREW DRUMMOND, Bangkok, October 24 2011 A British editor holding together the Pattaya Times newspaper – apparently a partner paper of the Bangkok Post – has quit amid a controversy over the paper’s widespread ‘lifting’ of most of its material from a variety of journalists and news organisations worldwide.His resignation follows the departure of the paper’s […]

The logo of the alleged law firm shows two suited but headless figures running off with two bags over three mechanical cogs. Could this be interpreted as two brainless lawyers running of with their clients’ cash while the cogs of justice slowly grind to a halt?Absolutely, says frail Dutch pensioner Hans Boozajer, 67, but it’s not the Thai […]

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 […]

The Royal Thai Police today strongly denied claims made by American Drew Noyes in the Pattaya Times that they were seeking to arrest a British journalist and close down his website.Reports of the hunt for Andrew Drummond, a foreign correspondent in Thailand for nearly 25 years, were wildly exaggerated, and his website www.andrew.local was not the […]

  Original version read 1,870 times – A Flying Sporran EnquiryFrom  ANDREW DRUMMOND,BangkokOctober 11 2011Drew Noyes & Thai Immigration & Labour Law Part 1 Two Filipina girls hired by self-proclaimed ‘newspaper publisher, philanthropist, and legal expert’ in Thailand have broken their silence on their ordeal after fleeing their jobs all but penniless after just four weeks. […]

FROM ANDREW DRUMMOND Bangkok, October 5 2011 A reader has just sent me the link to ‘Media in Thailand’  – a summary of the Fourth Estate here by Wikipedia. This review had me chuckling not least because of its entry about the Pattaya Times – slogan ‘News you can use!’. In its initial blurb about newspapers it mentioned the […]

 From ANDREW DRUMMOND, BANGKOKSeptember 21 2011  It is with deep regret that I have to announce  that the Optimist Club of Thailand, has deceased, kicked the bucket, gone to meet its maker, shuffled off its mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the choir, and is pushing up the daisies..etc..  Formed in 2008 by […]

From ANDREW DRUMMOND, Bangkok September 11 2011 WARNING: If you have found this story by googling Drew Noyes – this will be in the middle of flattering but scarcely credible biographies of himself. Best just google ‘Drew Noyes’ together with ‘myriad lies’Drew Noyes the American ‘entrepreneur’ in Pattaya has hit back at revelations on this site that many, […]

From ANDREW DRUMMOND, Bangkok August 26 2011 The publisher of the Pattaya Times, well known ‘American lawyer’ Drew Noyes, failed to attend a hearing in room 12 of Pattaya Provincial court this week, as he had to host a seminar on ‘Insight into the Criminal Proceedings for Foreigners in Thailand. Noyes, is facing a writ for […]