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  Scum of the Earth

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 24/02/2019

  » At the Bangkok Post Forum on Feb 7, Future Forward Party leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit said it would be splendid if Thailand had green shirts with four stars who favour democracy. He called for a review (English translation: cancellation) of the recent, 2.3 billion-baht purchase of 14 more Chinese main battle tanks. Oh, and Thailand should halt conscription.

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  Fairness needs to be ensured

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 27/01/2019

  » In sports, as in politics, they call it a "tilted playing field". One or many tiny modifications to the game area give advantages that don't absolutely guarantee that the home team wins, but help to make it more likely.

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  Rule by law

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 18/11/2018

  » As RoboCop said to arch villain Clarence Boddicker in the climactic scene of the original movie: "I'm not arresting you any more." Rather than bringing them to justice, the green shirts now hope to be able merely to bring the world's only brother-sister fugitive ex-prime minister duo to heel.

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  Life without populism

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 06/05/2018

  » Once upon a time in a land very, very far away with a "government by the people, for the people" there was a plan to fix recalcitrant taxi drivers and make them pick up passengers, politely, and then to reward the drivers with a fare increase. And that plan was carried out in the faraway country, and passengers were happy to reward deserving, hard-working, uncomplaining taxi drivers.

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  Rule of law

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 25/03/2018

  » When your main tool is a hammer, the cliche notes well, then after a while, every problem looks like a nail. The general prime minister has wielded a totally personal, custom-made, gold-plated hammer for the past four years, and even has given it a cute nickname.

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  Too connected to fail?

  Alan Dawson, Published on 11/02/2018

  » Sia Prem and three friends went out hunting for a new, black leopard throw rug and all we got was this disgusting news story.

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  SMOP is a flop

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 08/10/2017

  » Last Sunday night, an anti-drug squad caught two men carrying 400kg of crystal methamphetamine from Myanmar, ya ice worth 400 million baht on the street. On Monday and on Tuesday, police in Udon Thani and Mukdahan busted two cross-Mekong shipments of compressed marijuana from Laos, now Japan's major weed supplier. Combined, they weighed a tonne.

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  The third Chinese curse

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 20/08/2017

  » It's unclear why Seh Pete went so aggressively and even excessively after Pai Dao Din.

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  Thailand's richest couple

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 30/07/2017

  » YOU can get RICH with an internet BUSINESS website!

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  Vale of Tiers

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 23/07/2017

  » It was a great trial. But rather than prime the pumps for a lift out of the basement, it actually illustrates why Thailand is stuck at that Tier 2 (Watch List) level on the US State Department's Trafficking in Persons (TIP) list that obsesses the general prime minister and millions more including the media.

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