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  • OPINION

    Art of the graft

    News, Alan Dawson, Published on 03/06/2018

    » Coup leader Gen (Ret) Prayut Chan-o-cha first mentioned his programme concerning corruption in late May, 2014, not long after seizing power. It was so long ago that there wasn't even a National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO). It was still called the National Peace and Order Maintaining Council (NPOMC).

  • OPINION

    No, really, Big Brother is watching

    News, Alan Dawson, Published on 25/06/2017

    » The Big Three of International Computing have convinced tens of millions of customers to spy on themselves. Considering this, what's the big deal when the government listens in too -- well, apart from the going-to-jail part -- at least?

  • THAILAND

    Corruption and cover-ups

    News, Alan Dawson, Published on 29/01/2017

    » As they say in Narathiwat, it never rains but it pours. Wow! Sure, we asked about corruption, but we weren't expecting to be flooded out.

  • OPINION

    N. Korea fails to pull off 'safety' bluff with diplomats

    News, Alan Dawson, Published on 08/04/2013

    » On the last Friday of August 1975, I was summoned to the press office of the foreign ministry in Ho Chi Minh City, then four months into its new communist rule.

  • 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.

  • WORLD

    The man who kills people

    News, Alan Dawson, Published on 19/02/2017

    » Sending two women assassins he probably vetted personally after his half-brother seems a weird act for the leader of a country. For Kim Jong-un and for his father and for his father's father, it was Monday.

  • OPINION

    The big issue: Web of intrigue

    Alan Dawson, Published on 25/10/2015

    » Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak had a Horton the Elephant moment about hatching the single-gateway internet egg. He said he didn’t want to talk about it. And when the egg hatched, it was the media who found the yolk was on them.

  • OPINION

    The big issue: Frogs in a pot

    Alan Dawson, Published on 16/08/2015

    » The head of the Constitution Drafting Committee suddenly realised he had forgotten something. At a mere 130 pages, 61,000 words, 315 sections, the charter really needed some meat on its bones.

  • OPINION

    The big issue: Swaying bamboo

    Alan Dawson, Published on 01/03/2015

    » Pisan Manawapat has one general job and one specific job in his new role as Ambassador of the Kingdom of Thailand to the United States of America. Both could serve as plots for Mission Impossible, although a Hollywood happy ending is not assured.

  • OPINION

    Name, shame, repeat

    Alan Dawson, Published on 22/06/2014

    » Pretty well the whole world knows that the traffic in Thailand is horrible, but events in the past week showed that the trafficking is even worse.

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