Author: Andrew Drummond
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THE KOH TAO MURDERS – FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND
SO WHY WERE THAI POLICE CHECKING BURMESE FOOTPRINTS? Just when it seems that no more buses can be driven though the prosecution case against the two young Burmese Wai Phyo and Zaw Lin for the Koh Tao murders Australian lawyer Ian Yarwood, who has been following the affair closely, has come forward with yet…
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AMERICANS CELEBRATE LINK TO THAI FISHING PORT
TWINNED BY TWINS AND…… The North Carolina town of Mount Airy has linked hands with Samut Songkhram on the Gulf of Thailand to become ‘sister’ cities – and officials in Thailand ‘are very excited about it’ according to a local newspaper in the US state. In turn the City Board of Commissioners in Mount Airy…
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NEWSPAPER’S FINANCIAL GURU INDICTED BY THAI SECURITIES EXCHANGE COMMISSION
BANGKOK POST COLUMNIST ANDREW WOOD AND EIGHT OTHERS WERE ‘TRADING ILLEGALLY’ The personal financial guru of the Bangkok Post has been indicted by the Thai Securities Exchange Commission along with eight other ‘financial advisors’ for operating securities businesses without licences. Andrew Wood, who was afforded a regular financial column in the Bangkok Post’s Spectrum section…
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MEDIA CENSORSHIP IN THAILAND – THE TRUTH
The Thai Government has now admitted what we have known all along. It is going to strictly control the foreign media in Thailand and those journalists guilty of ‘inaccurate reporting’ will have their visas revoked and possibly much more. The military led government has introduced new visa laws which in reality allow a ban…
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PATTAYA COURT JAILS TEACHER FOR LIBELING CONVICTED EXTORTIONIST DREW NOYES
The criminal court in Pattaya today jailed an American schoolteacher for a year for libeling Drew Walter Noyes, an American who set up business in the city as a fake lawyer and who is currently on the run after being found guilty of extortion. The teacher and his defence team are shocked at the decision…
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BBC REPORT SLAMS THAI INHUMANE TREATMENT OF PAKISTANI ASYLUM SEEKERS
A BBC journalist has blagged his way into the Immigration Detention Centre in Bangkok to broadcast a damning report on Thailand which he says welcomes tourists but refuses to help anyone seeking refuge. The report by Producer-reporter Chris Rogers was broadcast today and will be broadcast again. tomorrow on BBC Our World. The report, which…
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EXTORTIONIST ON THE RUN DREW NOYES CALLS UP HIS ‘SELFIES’
On run with a warrant out for his arrest for extortion in Thailand Drew Noyes, 60, has changed his Facebook profile to show himself hobnobbing with Thai Royalty, a former US Ambassador to Thailand, and an Immigration Police Colonel. This may by a ruse by the ‘selfie hunter’* to impress his new friends in Wilmington,…
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WILD WOMEN AND CHAMPAGNE – FOR US$560 A MONTH IN PATTAYA?
CAN IT BE DONE? OR HAVE THE VIKINGS TAKEN TO THEIR LONGSHIPS AGAIN? I’m confused. I have just seen an unbeatable offer on the net – and I need advice. The New Nordic Company – ‘live next to a Thai Princess’ – is offering old aged pensioners – a 10 per cent a year return…
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THAI TOURISM CROSSROADS – WHICH WAY NEXT?
AND HAVE THE DEATHS OF TOURISTS NOW TIPPED THE BALANCE? The news that tourist deaths in Thailand have risen 54 per cent in a year is perhaps surprising. But more surprising is the fact that the fact that the statistics were released. They came from the Bureau of Prevention and Assistance in Tourist Fraud an…
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SEAN TINSLEY – MAN ON THE RUN OR DOES HE WANT TO PAY HIS DEBT TO SOCIETY?
Sean Tinsley, the dodgy visa agent convicted of assaulting the Head of English at an International School in Pattaya on Thailand’s eastern seaboard, has been busy packing his belongings while on bail appealing to the Supreme Court. Tinsley was found guilty at the Appeal Court of assault, jailed for six years and ordered to pay…