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News, Alan Dawson, Published on 15/01/2017
» The privy councillors last week met Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha. When it was over, a seemingly surprised general announced to the nation that it really is new days.
Alan Dawson, Published on 18/05/2014
» If you start with "Prime Minister" Yingluck and she becomes "caretaker Prime Minister" Yingluck who turns into "acting caretaker Prime Minister" Niwattumrong, what is the person after him called?
Alan Dawson, Published on 27/04/2014
» Credit marketing flair and impeccable timing for the sudden new shine on an old idea whose time may have come around again.
Alan Dawson, Published on 20/04/2014
» The end of Songkran brought the urgency right back to politics. But not for long. The ear-splitting, street-bursting, epithet-howling weekend mobs didn't happen, as the judges and investigators suddenly came over all coy, and delayed all the important stuff — maybe for a few days, maybe for longer.
Alan Dawson, Published on 05/04/2014
» Yingluck Shinawatra will mark her third Songkran as prime minister next Sunday. Sane bookies are not betting on a fourth. In fact, you can find pretty good odds today she won't be in office to celebrate her third Visakha Bucha Day, little more than a month away.
Alan Dawson, Published on 29/03/2014
» The most important question in politics is now pretty obvious to everyone. Does Suthep Thaugsuban or Jatuporn Prompan have the bigger one?
Alan Dawson, Published on 22/03/2014
» Remember the election last month? No, of course you don't. That was a trick question. There was no election last month, a flat fact written in stone by six wise men after a Friday morning meeting.
Alan Dawson, Published on 16/03/2014
» Brief relief from the serious disappearance and search for Malaysian Airlines flight 370 came in the revelation that two passengers were carrying passports stolen long ago in Phuket.
Alan Dawson, Published on 25/01/2014
» Let's say you are the head of a Thai government, faced with violence and possible insurgency, and you need, really need the single best mind inside the brain of the highly respected person who could be your white knight. Who would you pick? No-brainer, right?
Alan Dawson, Published on 01/12/2013
» Anti-government leader Suthep Thaugsuban attracted a huge crowd last Sunday to his "million-man rally", the biggest political protest since the 2005 heyday of the pre-coup yellow shirts.