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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 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.
The big issue: Foreign affairs
Alan Dawson, Published on 13/07/2014
» For months, if not years, prior to May 22, most Western and some Asian governments had lobbied the Thai military hard, stating or plainly warning that a direct overthrow of the government would bring strong reactions, some measured punishments and loud recriminations from overseas.
Obama should apologise
Alan Dawson, Published on 08/06/2014
» US President Barack Obama was reportedly flabbergasted to find that Americans failed to appreciate his gesture to retrieve a probable US turncoat from Afghanistan by exchanging him for five Taliban terrorists.
N. Korea fails to pull off 'safety' bluff with diplomats
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 08/04/2013
» On the last Friday of August 1975, I was summoned to the press office of the foreign ministry in Ho Chi Minh City, then four months into its new communist rule.
The trial and the errors of the Abu Ghaith arrest
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 11/03/2013
» Since US President Barack Obama cranked up the drone programme, the United States has been like the unyielding Robocop film character: "I'm not going to arrest you any more."