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News, Alan Dawson, Published on 24/12/2017
» A week ago today we told a first-time visitor from the beautiful US state of Colorado to forget about seeing "the real, so-called authentic Thailand" because there isn't a square centimetre where tourists do not tread. The next day we set out on a family trip to places with not a foreign face in sight (one obvious exception).
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 09/07/2017
» Today's media control tip is when the Royal Thai Navy can't get the job done, send in the army and the Ministry of Interior. (More on the navy in a moment.)
Spectrum, Alan Dawson, Published on 26/04/2015
» Tuesday, April 29, 3pm. We’re 19 hours from communist victory, the fall of Saigon, the actual end of the Vietnam war, and photographer Hugh Van Es is gazing, lazily at first, out the front window of the United Press International bureau.
Alan Dawson, Published on 13/04/2014
» The week before Songkran was no holiday for Yala. The provincial capital was hit by coordinated bomb attacks on Sunday, and more on Monday. The large, destructive bombs killed one person and wounded 28. Clearly, the attacks had goals other than murder.
Alan Dawson, Published on 14/09/2013
» Flight TG 679 came out of the north and east from southern China last Sunday night, as it did habitually each late evening, homing in on its Suvarnabhumi airport base. At 11.25pm, the Airbus A330-300, its 288 passengers and its 14 crew members kissed the runway.
Spectrum, Alan Dawson, Published on 08/09/2013
» The Battle for Skyline Ridge lasted 108 days, involved thousands of troops from four countries, war planes from three, and is probably the least known important military engagement in recent history.