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  • THAILAND

    A bad week

    News, Alan Dawson, Published on 25/02/2018

    » Bad week for the military regime. The antediluvians in green absorbed punishment from foreigners galore. Worse, at home, protesters judged to be disloyal Thais went on the streets. And after three years, eight months and some days, the courts put on their steel-toed boots and confronted the regime's rules.

  • WORLD

    Analysis: Strongman no more

    Alan Dawson, Published on 29/07/2013

    » Prime Minister Hun Sen of Cambodia clung to power in Sunday's national elections, but lost his reputation as an immovable force.

  • OPINION

    Big Brother's poll watch

    News, Alan Dawson, Published on 10/06/2018

    » The next election, in 2019 or 2020 or so, will not be your grandfather's election. Or your mother's election or your elder sister's, either. Plans for the next election are more familiar to Cambodia's Hun Sen and survivors of Indonesia's late Suharto than to any Thai voter.

  • OPINION

    T-Minus 195

    News, Alan Dawson, Published on 12/08/2018

    » The founder and chairman of Asia's only military kratocracy passed a milestone last Tuesday. Gen (Ret) Prayut has now been in office four years and 82 days, more than half the time of the general he had hoped was his mentor, the leader of the 1980s, Gen Prem Tinsulanonda.

  • THAILAND

    The big issue: A city of two tales

    Alan Dawson, Published on 10/11/2013

    » If a film company held a script contest, this one would be rejected. The government faces major street protests, with one faction angry that the prime minister's brother will be forgiven many crimes, and another faction angry that the prime minister's main political opponent will be forgiven many crimes.

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