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Scum of the Earth
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 24/02/2019
» At the Bangkok Post Forum on Feb 7, Future Forward Party leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit said it would be splendid if Thailand had green shirts with four stars who favour democracy. He called for a review (English translation: cancellation) of the recent, 2.3 billion-baht purchase of 14 more Chinese main battle tanks. Oh, and Thailand should halt conscription.
A ripping yarn, but not the Pentagon Papers
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 26/01/2018
» <i>The Post</i>, opening for this weekend's cinema trade, is an unfortunate movie in the spirit of <i>All the President's Men</i> that lionises but lies about what happened during seminal moments in recent US history.
I'm asking the questions here
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 12/11/2017
» Well, that changed quickly. Instead of reporters and the political class shouting questions at an absolutely livid general prime minister, there was Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha doing the asking, serenely calm as a midnight millpond while the media squirmed and the political classes went apoplectic.
NBTC punches above its weight
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 02/07/2017
» The lightweight recently fighting as a middleweight got official ranking as a heavyweight and took it to heart.
Real cut-ups
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 04/06/2017
» Killing someone in cold blood takes a special kind of mindset, where by "special" we mean brutally disordered. Choking and then battering the victim, then saying "Now hand me the saw" is well beyond special.
The big issue: The dirty dozen (plus 5,988)
Alan Dawson, Published on 13/03/2016
» The government has spent months compiling the list. Now, it's going after every one of the 6,000 "influential criminal figures" on it, if it takes the rest of their days in power. And they say it will.
The big issue: We must 'do something'
Alan Dawson, Published on 10/01/2016
» A police constable summed up the situation perfectly after tough enforcement failed to stem the New Year’s holiday road slaughter. “People are absolutely not getting the message,” the constable told reporters from a TV news station. In Toronto.
The big issue: A not-so-free press
Alan Dawson, Published on 20/09/2015
» The prime minister explained that reporters can be idjits, which is true, and the soon-to-be police chief said reporters are the reason he can’t catch the Yellow T-Shirt Guy, which is not. All in the game, as we shall see, but the most devastating blow in decades to freedom of the press in Thailand came from ... the press.
The big issue: Our man in Milan
Alan Dawson, Published on 19/10/2014
» The spotlight fell even more strongly on Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha last week. And no one, not the most vengeful anti-coup opponent, seemed to feel worse about the constant attention than the man himself.
The big issue: The unsolved murders
Alan Dawson, Published on 12/10/2014
» They told Tun Tun Hteik that if his son left Rakhine state to work in Thailand, he would be exploited. And they were right.