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  • OPINION

    Searching for sanity

    News, Alan Dawson, Published on 28/05/2017

    » It now is pretty much confirmed by all available sources that the world is nuts. Last week was just more proof piling up.

  • THAILAND

    The Fakebook Diaries

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

    » Around 15 million or so people noticed last Tuesday that there was no bomb or large explosion anywhere in Bangkok. None of those people worked for Facebook, which is OK, but after the "explosion", people who work for Facebook insisted there was, actually, an explosion.

  • THAILAND

    The war bringer

    News, Alan Dawson, Published on 12/03/2017

    » The southern rebellion against the government begins its 58th year tomorrow. It will be the first time the anniversary is marked without any of the original 1960 instigators but in particular it will go on without its primary leader, better called the godfather of the southern conflict.

  • THAILAND

    Double tap confounded

    News, Alan Dawson, Published on 14/05/2017

    » The images haunt. A mother, with a wounded face, clutches her daughter and hunkers down beside the detergent shelves. A blackened battery and two wheels, all that is left of the stolen pickup crammed with cooking gas cans. Social media simply taking over the corporate Facebook pages of Big C to post thousands of photos, videos and messages.

  • 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

    A question of interpretation

    News, Alan Dawson, Published on 20/11/2016

    » After 15 months of extremely iffy police work and very interesting prosecution strategy, the two button men of the Erawan Shrine atrocity got their destined opportunity to turn their trial into political theatre.

  • OPINION

    The big issue: Unravelling another bomb plot

    Oped, Alan Dawson, Published on 21/08/2016

    » The top commanders of the security forces and their multiple junta supervisors marked the first anniversary of the Erawan Shrine killings with a re-enactment of the investigation of that 2015 atrocity, using the Mother's Day attacks in the South as the example.

  • OPINION

    The big issue: Fighting war, talking peace

    News, Alan Dawson, Published on 04/09/2016

    » Separatists in the deep South tried to have it both ways last week, thankfully failing (mostly) on one score but arguably pushing ahead on the second, long-range part of the strategy.

  • OPINION

    The big issue: Month of calamity

    Alan Dawson, Published on 10/07/2016

    » At dinner time on Friday, July 1, seven nice young, educated men of good families walked into the upscale Holey Artisan Bakery (official motto - The Only True Artisan Bakery Shop Between Mumbai and Singapore) in the tony Gulshan area of Dhaka, to kill a bunch of people.

  • OPINION

    The big issue: Time to face accusers

    Alan Dawson, Published on 15/11/2015

    » Aziz Phitakkumpon, known generally in news stories as "the spiritual leader of Thai Muslims", has been Chularatchamontri for more than five years. He is soft-spoken, but never has been afraid to speak out, which he did again last week.

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