• 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.

• NEWS

  Tip of the iceberg

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 14/01/2018

  » Myanmar's government and entirely out-of-touch military soiled themselves again, over the Rohingya issue of course.

• 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

  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.

• OPINION

  Kra me a river

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 17/09/2017

  » They say that in 1677 King Narai the Great came up with the idea of excavating a ditch for a canal from Songkhla to Burma. His French engineer de Lamar travelled to the South, looked around and reported back that it was impossible.

• 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

  Islamic State, keep out

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 27/11/2016

  » The most intriguing story of the week was the suggestion that Thai Muslims had been caught out in supporting the Islamic State (IS). It was intriguing because while the neighbours have often been involved directly in international terrorism, and still are, no Thai ever has been linked to the post-9/11 groups championed by Osama bin Laden, his progeny or their many copycats.

• 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.

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