• OPINION

  Turning red into green

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 22/07/2018

  » Rarely in recent Thai political history has a government minister been so honest, so open and so utterly truthful as was PM's Office Minister Kobsak Pootrakool last Sunday.

• THAILAND

  What, we worry?

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 18/02/2018

  » Last week filled out the cast of the least-awaited drama in Thai TV news history, <i>The Untouchables: Bred Men Walking</i>, starring the Watchman, the FAT man and the Catman.

• OPINION

  Cell-by dates

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 06/08/2017

  » The day after That Woman's closing statement in her malfeasance trial, national deputy police chief Srivara Ransibrahmanakul seemed painfully unhappy about something. He looked the way men with look with multi-day dyschezia or domestic dissimilarity. He said her approximately 900 supporters gathered at the court were well behaved "thanks to the 300 police" he ordered in.

• THAILAND

  It's the vans, stupid

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 08/01/2017

  » New Year was another highway slaughter, the bloodiest long weekend ever recorded, which is saying a lot when you're already starting with the world's second most sanguinary roadways, and then get worse than that for a week.

• THAILAND

  The Big Issue: How horrid

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 09/10/2016

  » Last month, taxpayers wrote a cheque for 3.3 billion baht when Russia delivered two VIP long-range Sukhoi Superjet 100s. The junta tried to claim they were "transport planes", because carrying important people and their aides is transport, right?

• THAILAND

  Let them eat taxis

  Alan Dawson, Published on 22/05/2016

  » Word reached the Department of Land Transport last week that disruptive technology is the single coolest and awesomest fad around, so those cool shufflers of extreme paper immediately disrupted the latest and coolest item they could find, and thought it was pretty cool.

• OPINION

  The big issue: Less danger, more holiday please

  Alan Dawson, Published on 12/06/2016

  » There never has been such a disastrous string of tourist crashes, bashes, smashes and tragic endings like the past two weeks. But there was plenty of warning. The speedboat collisions, bungalow collapse and Phuket shopping mall erosion were as well advertised as years of highway hell foretold Friday's horrific van crash that killed 11 teachers.

• OPINION

  The big issue: Time for truth: Life isn’t fair

  Alan Dawson, Published on 02/08/2015

  » For Malaysia and Cuba it was a good week, locked for the moment in the embrace of The Superpower, and off the hook for human trafficking. Rewards favoured the member of the Trans-Pacific Partnership for higher drug prices and the worst human rights violator in the entire Western Hemisphere.

• THAILAND

  THE BIG ISSUE: The great airline cover-up

  Alan Dawson, Published on 14/09/2013

  » Flight TG 679 came out of the north and east from southern China last Sunday night, as it did habitually each late evening, homing in on its Suvarnabhumi airport base. At 11.25pm, the Airbus A330-300, its 288 passengers and its 14 crew members kissed the runway.

• THAILAND

  The rubber band stretches, then breaks

  Alan Dawson, Published on 31/08/2013

  » It's not quite over yet, but the Great Rubber Farmers Revolt looks to be coming in for a smooth landing. There has been a lot of inconvenience and photogenic passion, but no one was hurt during the making and unmaking of this crisis.

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