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News, Alan Dawson, Published on 26/08/2018
» Getting a sensible new law into the books is an extremely difficult task. But it's lightning compared with getting sensible changes to your great-grandfather's laws still on the books "because that's how we've always done it".
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 17/06/2018
» US President Donald Trump announced last Thursday that the North Korean nuclear threat is over, and that "fake news" is thus the No.1 threat. The men of Asia's only remaining military regime nodded.
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 06/05/2018
» Once upon a time in a land very, very far away with a "government by the people, for the people" there was a plan to fix recalcitrant taxi drivers and make them pick up passengers, politely, and then to reward the drivers with a fare increase. And that plan was carried out in the faraway country, and passengers were happy to reward deserving, hard-working, uncomplaining taxi drivers.
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.
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 20/08/2017
» It's unclear why Seh Pete went so aggressively and even excessively after Pai Dao Din.
Alan Dawson, Published on 26/06/2016
» It was nearly eight years ago that two clever green shirts masterminded the “hidden coup” that persuaded important members of the inner circle of Lord Voldemort na Dubai to defect to Abhisit Vejjajiva’s Democrats and make Mr Abhisit prime minister.
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.
Alan Dawson, Published on 08/05/2016
» In the 1990s (young people’s guide — way back in the last century) old fuddy-duddies who knew jack about digital data and those consarned new computers and email stuff got caught because they didn’t realise computer systems remember stuff. Even when it's deleted, data hangs around on a computer disk.
Alan Dawson, Published on 01/05/2016
» Thailand got on the United States list of the "dirty dozen" worst pirates in the explored galaxy for the ninth consecutive year. By doing that, it stayed off the list of worst hypocrites.
Alan Dawson, Published on 07/02/2016
» The percentage of Thais in prison on charges of drug abuse - for selling tiny amounts of a drug including marijuana or having it for recreational drug use - is not known accurately. Or rather, is measured by the people who declared public support for the junta was above 99%. Conservatively, though, most would agree that if there were no prisoners incarcerated on the above charges, there would be no prison overcrowding.