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News, Alan Dawson, Published on 21/10/2018
» In the week the general prime minister saw Trump's Twitter bet and raised him by 400%, he did something even more political. He stopped the march to enactment of the Cybersecurity Act in its tracks.
Promises, promises
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 19/08/2018
» The general prime minister is off to the South this week. The trip to Chumphon has been planned for a while, so the irony is coincidental.
Revenge of the kamnan
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 22/01/2017
» It had been 975 days since the military regime did anything to justify the coup d'etat that was needed specifically to bring happiness back to the people by national reconciliation. So the general prime minister named a 98-man, three tier committee of otherwise unemployed two-, three- and four-starred green shirts to draw daily allowances and proceed to bring about unity.
End of an era?
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 25/12/2016
» Planning for the third Cobra Gold war games since the 2014 coup d'etat is pretty much complete, and it is going to show better than any other public event the diminishing passion of the long US-Thailand affair.
The big issue: The war on Songkran
Alan Dawson, Published on 20/03/2016
» As predictable as an April 13-15 holiday, as certain as the groans of, "Oh, not Songkran again", as inevitable as the run on water guns at the toy kiosks, here come the Fun Police to try to shut down the Thai New Year or, even better in their view, make it miserable.
About that reconciliation ...
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 25/01/2015
» The bad news could not have come faster or more unpleasantly on Friday afternoon.
The Big Story: In case of emergency
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?