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Tip of the iceberg
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 14/01/2018
» Myanmar's government and entirely out-of-touch military soiled themselves again, over the Rohingya issue of course.
Punishment and crime
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.
You had one job
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.)
Real cut-ups
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 04/06/2017
» Killing someone in cold blood takes a special kind of mindset, where by "special" we mean brutally disordered. Choking and then battering the victim, then saying "Now hand me the saw" is well beyond special.
Searching for sanity
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 28/05/2017
» It now is pretty much confirmed by all available sources that the world is nuts. Last week was just more proof piling up.
Facebook murders
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 30/04/2017
» So now the sun never sets on countries where people have murdered in order to boost their Facebook followers.
Serious comedy
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 02/04/2017
» Just 32 years old, Vorayuth "Boss" Yoovidhya leads a hectic, globe-trotting life. You have to understand that he can't just be on hand every time prosecutors want to get his views about his connection to the hit-and-run killing by his Ferrari more than four years ago. In fact, he has missed eight appointments in the past year.
The Big Issue: A torture culture
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 05/03/2017
» Ravina Shamdasani, a human rights officer for the United Nations Human Rights Council, says Thailand has a torture culture.
The man who kills people
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 19/02/2017
» Sending two women assassins he probably vetted personally after his half-brother seems a weird act for the leader of a country. For Kim Jong-un and for his father and for his father's father, it was Monday.