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Peak army
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 29/10/2017
» We have seen Thais come together so many times, but never like that.
SMOP is a flop
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 08/10/2017
» Last Sunday night, an anti-drug squad caught two men carrying 400kg of crystal methamphetamine from Myanmar, ya ice worth 400 million baht on the street. On Monday and on Tuesday, police in Udon Thani and Mukdahan busted two cross-Mekong shipments of compressed marijuana from Laos, now Japan's major weed supplier. Combined, they weighed a tonne.
The other woman
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 01/10/2017
» On the day the Supreme Court threw That Woman out of politics for good, judges from the same Dika Court dealt with a second fugitive.
What he's thinking
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 24/09/2017
» The election campaign began rolling in earnest last week. Now if only the government had kept its promise and actually had an election. Minor detail, perhaps, but memories are so short when they operate on political bias that it's good to do history.
Kra me a river
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 17/09/2017
» They say that in 1677 King Narai the Great came up with the idea of excavating a ditch for a canal from Songkhla to Burma. His French engineer de Lamar travelled to the South, looked around and reported back that it was impossible.
Punishment and crime
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 10/09/2017
» A country without clear rule of law is a nation adrift. Citizens have pride, patriotism but little control or input to their own country's future.
Tortured verdict
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 27/08/2017
» A truly pathetic moment in morality and warfare and diplomatic relations has ended without a whimper, let alone the attention it deserved.
The third Chinese curse
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 20/08/2017
» It's unclear why Seh Pete went so aggressively and even excessively after Pai Dao Din.
Thailand's richest couple
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 30/07/2017
» YOU can get RICH with an internet BUSINESS website!
Vale of Tiers
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 23/07/2017
» It was a great trial. But rather than prime the pumps for a lift out of the basement, it actually illustrates why Thailand is stuck at that Tier 2 (Watch List) level on the US State Department's Trafficking in Persons (TIP) list that obsesses the general prime minister and millions more including the media.