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The big issue: Less danger, more holiday please
Alan Dawson, Published on 12/06/2016
» There never has been such a disastrous string of tourist crashes, bashes, smashes and tragic endings like the past two weeks. But there was plenty of warning. The speedboat collisions, bungalow collapse and Phuket shopping mall erosion were as well advertised as years of highway hell foretold Friday's horrific van crash that killed 11 teachers.
Let them eat taxis
Alan Dawson, Published on 22/05/2016
» Word reached the Department of Land Transport last week that disruptive technology is the single coolest and awesomest fad around, so those cool shufflers of extreme paper immediately disrupted the latest and coolest item they could find, and thought it was pretty cool.
The big issue: Time for truth: Life isn’t fair
Alan Dawson, Published on 02/08/2015
» For Malaysia and Cuba it was a good week, locked for the moment in the embrace of The Superpower, and off the hook for human trafficking. Rewards favoured the member of the Trans-Pacific Partnership for higher drug prices and the worst human rights violator in the entire Western Hemisphere.
No useable oil in disputed areas: US
Alan Dawson, Published on 07/04/2013
» An authoritative new report on likely oil and gas reserves in the heavily disputed regions of the South China has concluded that there probably aren't any.