• OPINION

  Scum of the Earth

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 24/02/2019

  » At the Bangkok Post Forum on Feb 7, Future Forward Party leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit said it would be splendid if Thailand had green shirts with four stars who favour democracy. He called for a review (English translation: cancellation) of the recent, 2.3 billion-baht purchase of 14 more Chinese main battle tanks. Oh, and Thailand should halt conscription.

• THAILAND

  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.)

• NEWS

  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.

• OPINION

  Full medal jacket

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 10/03/2019

  » After the failure of a brief moment of <i>Scum of the Earth</i> intimidation, the generals have gone running to court with their twin packs of green-shirt and government lawyers.

• OPINION

  Punch lines

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 29/07/2018

  » If the general prime minister has his way -- and it looks like he probably will -- it won't be politics or police or the justice system that he'll finally reform.

• OPINION

  The third Chinese curse

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 20/08/2017

  » It's unclear why Seh Pete went so aggressively and even excessively after Pai Dao Din.

• OPINION

  Man for all reasons

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 16/07/2017

  » If you really were up against it, had to stop all the generalising and nonsense political talk and get down, really seriously down, to one set of reforms in one tough place that really, really needs reform, where would you choose?

• THAILAND

  The Big Issue: Shot fired, man down

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 26/03/2017

  » Artist and activist Chaiyapoom Pasae, a Lahu, was shot and killed by a soldier at a drug checkpoint. That is the complete set of facts everyone agrees on.

• THAILAND

  Carry on killing

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 09/04/2017

  » The new constitution promulgated on Thursday by His Majesty the King re-inserts a section tossed out immediately after the May 2014 coup by the general prime minister when he decreed an interim charter with the precious Section 44. The new supreme law has an actual ban on torture, beating people to death, use of meat hooks during discipline sessions. And so on.

• THAILAND

  Mr X's gang unravels

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 12/02/2017

  » Sayobphairee Operation 60/1, the biggest trafficking takedown since the army chased Khun Sa back to Myanmar, began with the largest drug bust outside a nightclub urine test-centre.

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