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Roadmap veers off course
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 15/01/2017
» The privy councillors last week met Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha. When it was over, a seemingly surprised general announced to the nation that it really is new days.
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The big issue: The end of the beginning
Alan Dawson, Published on 18/05/2014
» If you start with "Prime Minister" Yingluck and she becomes "caretaker Prime Minister" Yingluck who turns into "acting caretaker Prime Minister" Niwattumrong, what is the person after him called?
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The Big Issue: What happens next?
Alan Dawson, Published on 22/03/2014
» Remember the election last month? No, of course you don't. That was a trick question. There was no election last month, a flat fact written in stone by six wise men after a Friday morning meeting.
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The Big Issue: Will she or won't she?
Alan Dawson, Published on 05/04/2014
» Yingluck Shinawatra will mark her third Songkran as prime minister next Sunday. Sane bookies are not betting on a fourth. In fact, you can find pretty good odds today she won't be in office to celebrate her third Visakha Bucha Day, little more than a month away.
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The BIG STORY: Happy New Year?
Alan Dawson, Published on 20/04/2014
» The end of Songkran brought the urgency right back to politics. But not for long. The ear-splitting, street-bursting, epithet-howling weekend mobs didn't happen, as the judges and investigators suddenly came over all coy, and delayed all the important stuff — maybe for a few days, maybe for longer.
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The Big Story: In case of emergency
Alan Dawson, Published on 25/01/2014
» Let's say you are the head of a Thai government, faced with violence and possible insurgency, and you need, really need the single best mind inside the brain of the highly respected person who could be your white knight. Who would you pick? No-brainer, right?
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The big issue: Another predictable ruling
Alan Dawson, Published on 24/11/2013
» The Constitution Court slapped the government and parliament for specific offences against the charter, but once again stopped well short of a decisive ruling of just what steps judges consider legal in amending the supreme law.
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The big issue: Kamnan Thep hits the streets
Alan Dawson, Published on 01/12/2013
» Anti-government leader Suthep Thaugsuban attracted a huge crowd last Sunday to his "million-man rally", the biggest political protest since the 2005 heyday of the pre-coup yellow shirts.
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The big issue: A borderline case
Alan Dawson, Published on 17/11/2013
» Resolution Monday failed to live up to its billing, for which everyone can be thankful. But now comes Wild Wednesday.
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THE BIG ISSUE: Safety restraints
Alan Dawson, Published on 16/12/2012
» The road to national reconciliation has become the most divisive issue of the day, but a couple of small cracks appeared in the wall separating the country.
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