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News, Alan Dawson, Published on 18/12/2016
» Thai democracy on Friday showed that 168 votes easily defeats 350,000 votes. The green shirts who promised to return happiness to the people handed it to themselves, and called it a New Year's present that will never stop giving back.
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 11/12/2016
» What a huge surprise it wasn't that authorities went for the jugular of the BBC when perusing foreign news coverage of succession to the throne.
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 30/10/2016
» There are rich people in this world, and there are rich families. Many of them are so quiet they are almost anonymous. Take the Yoovidhaya family of Thailand.
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 09/10/2016
» Last month, taxpayers wrote a cheque for 3.3 billion baht when Russia delivered two VIP long-range Sukhoi Superjet 100s. The junta tried to claim they were "transport planes", because carrying important people and their aides is transport, right?
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 26/07/2016
» Russia has served notice to Thailand and the United States to expect another all-out diplomatic and legal fight over the expected attempt to extradite a man arrested in Pattaya for alleged ties to a billion-baht hacking ring.
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.
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 23/11/2015
» A defiant Sereepisut Temeeyaves has dared authorities to prove his charges of high-level military corruption are wrong, but said he will not add to the accusations "for now".
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 09/03/2014
» The crime that shocked the South has turned out to be a vendetta, as suspected — but with a twist that involves the army, the nation and violent southern gangs in what could be the most dangerous family feud in the country's history.
Alan Dawson, Published on 28/09/2013
» There are, basically, two kinds of police - the honest kind and the other kind. As a result, there are two kinds of drug raids, the hopeful kind and the successful kind.