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The big issue: The vote goes on
Alan Dawson, Published on 02/02/2014
» It's just your standard, nationwide polling day to elect a new House of Representatives. With a couple of teensy-weensy bits of unique colour thrown in to differentiate it from other elections, at home and abroad.
HIV drug discovery puts licensing pressure on govt
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 17/06/2013
» A breakthrough joint medical study on an anti-Aids drug by the US and Bangkok City Hall has highlighted the need to address again the problem with health costs and, more importantly, the politically toxic issue of compulsory licensing, known as CL.
Free speech runs riot as anti-Muslim radicals fill vacuum
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 29/03/2013
» The murderous communal riots that have wracked Myanmar for nearly six months are edging closer to the country's most important cities, and to strong notice abroad, particularly in Muslim-majority countries.
What a Romney presidency would mean in Asia
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 02/09/2012
» If Mitt Romney becomes the next president in January, the United States is likely to move off its officially neutral stance over territorial disputes in the South China Sea and back regional countries against Beijing. The official position paper of the Republican Party, adopted on Wednesday at the party's nominating convention, criticised China for its ``destabilising claims'' in the region.
Romney makes smart pick
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 13/08/2012
» In the first hours after US presidential hopeful Mitt Romney picked a young politician as his candidate for vice-president, the choice clearly turned the campaign from the silly season to the election season.
Aurora changes nothing in Colorado's gun debate
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 23/07/2012
» The chances that last week's cinema massacre will result in changes to gun laws in the United States, or the state of Colorado, are so slim they barely exist.
I want to believe
Alan Dawson, Published on 24/06/2012
» The strange saga of suspicious scientific silence may turn out to be one of the most sensational conspiracies of the year. But it probably won't.
Pop goes the green economy bubble
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 20/06/2012
» The green bubble has burst, bad news for the 50,000 people descending on Rio de Janeiro this week for yet another United Nations conference, but much worse news for the entrepreneurs and workers displaced or still riding the rapidly failing green industry's economic slipstream.
Stratfor Papers _ a tawdry dip into cyber-crime
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 06/03/2012
» I was taken aback by a report in this newspaper last week that I have been operating for several decades in a secretive but romantic world of spies, money laundering and running secret agents.
Conspiracy of errors has saved Bangkok thus far
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 16/02/2012
» Thailand continues to play a bit role in the Mideast conflict and, as the Valentine's Day bomb debacle in Bangkok has shown, the country also seems to attract mostly second-string operatives in the violence.