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Watching the vote
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 11/11/2018
» Foreign and Thai groups want official accreditation to monitor the next general election, whenever it occurs. And the government has instantly invited all such groups to kick rocks.
Digital Tu
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 21/10/2018
» In the week the general prime minister saw Trump's Twitter bet and raised him by 400%, he did something even more political. He stopped the march to enactment of the Cybersecurity Act in its tracks.
Data security a foreign concept
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 22/04/2018
» You'd think that just about the worst thing that could happen in today's charged smartphone-internet intersection is the theft of many thousands of the most important identification documents and personal details of mobile phone owners. But you'd be wrong.
The big issue: Hunter’s killer team
Alan Dawson, Published on 05/06/2016
» After 20 years in the United States Army, Joseph M Hunter retired and passed the exam to be a New York City policeman. He didn’t join, because it wouldn’t pay enough, so he took the other fork, where he could use his military training for bad, become a mercenary and a killer for hire and a leader. It actually worked, and he lived in Phuket, large. For a while.
The Big Issue: An unwelcome visitor
Alan Dawson, Published on 21/02/2016
» Just before Christmas 2014, a United States Embassy attache in Bangkok received a phone call. The caller told him that an American man who was known to have sexually abused a 14-year-old boy in Pattaya had contacted the youth via Facebook to try to score another sexual date six months ahead.
The big issue: Looking away
Alan Dawson, Published on 17/01/2016
» At 1.30am on Oct 11, more than 100 masked soldiers, police and militia raided a house in Kolo Tanyong village near Pattani province’s northern coast.
The big issue: The man in the yellow T-shirt
Alan Dawson, Published on 23/08/2015
» Police and the public know pretty much everything about the life of the man in the yellow T-shirt. Everything, that is, for the 20 minutes of that vile life between 6.38pm and 6.58pm last Monday.
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.
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.
The big issue: Tick-tock
Alan Dawson, Published on 04/05/2014
» For six months, it has been a death match, but politics has suddenly taken on the air of a death watch. In a matter of days, the actions of caretaker prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra will be judged by two bodies generally seen as critics or worse, and the top man at either one can literally throw her out of office as easy as snapping his fingers. Easier.