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The big issue: Passports, please
Alan Dawson, Published on 14/02/2016
» All newspapers carried this big story of the week, with the Bangkok Post cutting immediately to the chase.
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.
The big issue: The first man
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.
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.
The big issue: Wrecking ball
Alan Dawson, Published on 05/07/2015
» The website PainScience.com explained last week that a "perfect pain spot" is the Shins. They are “plenty sensitive if you press on them” but “Shins probably will suffer in silence”.
The big issue: Have gun, will travel
Alan Dawson, Published on 28/06/2015
» There have been two questions about the year's most eventful trip to Japan from the start. Did Pol Lt Gen Kamronwit Thoopkrachang know he was carrying? Did the Suvarnabhumi airport security staff fail to find a gun that was about to carried aboard a Thai International Airways flight to Japan?
The big issue: Constitutional crossroads
Alan Dawson, Published on 17/05/2015
» They scoffed when chief constitution writer Borwornsak Uwanno cited Thai exceptionalism as the simplest explanation for what he was doing to try to draft a supreme law that would last longer than the average 4.15 years of previous constitutions.
The big issue: The business of selling humans
Alan Dawson, Published on 10/05/2015
» Even police chiefs and army commanders now know, at last, what the rest of the country has known for years. That is, that a major industry has been established in Thailand, and it is slavery.
The big issue: The TIP-ping point
Alan Dawson, Published on 29/03/2015
» The annual March campaign to pass laws, speak sternly and promise sincerely began last week. It will run until the April announcement by the United States to cut the talking and start writing the new human trafficking report. That will be published in June.
The big issue: Hold on, one second (five satang)
Alan Dawson, Published on 11/01/2015
» For nine years, Thailand has torn itself apart in slow-motion, red-yellow-blue street protests, killings, arson and military coups, shutdowns, violence from South to North, dirty politics, back-stabbing businesses. And after five months of investigation, the 2014 National Reform Council (NRC) identified and voted 211-3 that the primary issue needing reform, the first problem that, once fixed, will bring peace to the country.