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It's the corruption, stupid
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 27/05/2018
» After promising the nation a Mercedes Benz C-500 of an anti-regime protest, activists produced a three-owner 2007 Toyota Corolla gathering. It impressed and struck fear into the hearts of, well, no one.
Thailand's richest couple
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 30/07/2017
» YOU can get RICH with an internet BUSINESS website!
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.
It's the vans, stupid
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 08/01/2017
» New Year was another highway slaughter, the bloodiest long weekend ever recorded, which is saying a lot when you're already starting with the world's second most sanguinary roadways, and then get worse than that for a week.
The Fakebook Diaries
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 01/01/2017
» Around 15 million or so people noticed last Tuesday that there was no bomb or large explosion anywhere in Bangkok. None of those people worked for Facebook, which is OK, but after the "explosion", people who work for Facebook insisted there was, actually, an explosion.
A question of interpretation
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 20/11/2016
» After 15 months of extremely iffy police work and very interesting prosecution strategy, the two button men of the Erawan Shrine atrocity got their destined opportunity to turn their trial into political theatre.
The mugging of Narudee
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 18/09/2016
» On the hot afternoon of Aug 8 just outside Korat, 58-year-old physical education teacher Paithoon Klaengkratok was mightily exasperated at those snippy young girls in his outdoor class at Chokchai Samakkee School. They would not sit down in the sunlight to hear his wisdom, and were even standing up to try to get some shade.
The big issue: We’re all dissidents now
Alan Dawson, Published on 15/03/2015
» Last week the green shirts created political unity that others could only dream of during the past 10 years of division and violence. Not only did Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and his government get more than 80% of the vote on his side, he did it twice.
Romney makes smart pick
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 13/08/2012
» In the first hours after US presidential hopeful Mitt Romney picked a young politician as his candidate for vice-president, the choice clearly turned the campaign from the silly season to the election season.