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News, Alan Dawson, Published on 02/09/2018
» While the regular comedy clubs that ban political humour are running as usual, the best line of the week was actually the statement:
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 09/07/2017
» Today's media control tip is when the Royal Thai Navy can't get the job done, send in the army and the Ministry of Interior. (More on the navy in a moment.)
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 05/03/2017
» Ravina Shamdasani, a human rights officer for the United Nations Human Rights Council, says Thailand has a torture culture.
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.
Alan Dawson, Published on 19/06/2016
» Torture is probably more like the weather than anything else around. It is, as US editorialist Charles Dudley Warner wrote (Mark Twain repeated it), "a matter about which a great deal is said and very little done".
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.
Alan Dawson, Published on 03/01/2016
» The Christmas Eve verdict to convict and condemn two Myanmar men for the unspeakable Koh Tao beach murders touched off quite a firestorm of its own. There were protests, but really, quelle surprise, right?
Alan Dawson, Published on 27/09/2015
» There are three days left for Somyot Poompunmuang to catch the Erawan Shrine bomber before he is no longer police chief. It would be a terrific, matching bookend to the one he got in his first week on the job, when he solved the Koh Tao murders.
Alan Dawson, Published on 02/11/2014
» The Koh Tao murder drama took unexpected turns a few days ago, with the main spotlight on the country's two top security men suddenly plunging into a sideshow that supposedly proved who did not kill the two young English tourists on Sept 15.
Alan Dawson, Published on 19/10/2014
» The spotlight fell even more strongly on Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha last week. And no one, not the most vengeful anti-coup opponent, seemed to feel worse about the constant attention than the man himself.