• OPINION

  The hand that feeds them

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

  » When the columnists and panjandrums and degree-clutchers come to analyse the state of Thailand in mid- and late May, it's probably this past week that will fascinate them.

• THAILAND

  Prayut fires warning shot

  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.

• OPINION

  Rice pledging scheme deja vu

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 06/11/2016

  » In the early 1980s, as a post-Vietnam war peace took shape in Southeast Asia, Thailand made an important decision. To be more correct, Thailand decided not to decide about rice.

• THAILAND

  Decline and fall

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 04/02/2018

  » It now becomes pretty predictable, until the moment of push comes to shove-them-out. The form of the actual end game remains unknown but the beginning has ended, and the end has begun.

• THAILAND

  The other woman

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 01/10/2017

  » On the day the Supreme Court threw That Woman out of politics for good, judges from the same Dika Court dealt with a second fugitive.

• THAILAND

  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.

• OPINION

  The Big Issue: An unwelcome visitor

  Alan Dawson, Published on 21/02/2016

  » Just before Christmas 2014, a United States Embassy attache in Bangkok received a phone call. The caller told him that an American man who was known to have sexually abused a 14-year-old boy in Pattaya had contacted the youth via Facebook to try to score another sexual date six months ahead.

• OPINION

  The big issue: Until we meet again

  Alan Dawson, Published on 06/03/2016

  » It took years for Sorrayuth Suthassanachinda to become the face and voice of reliable news. And it took a few minutes for a Criminal Court judge to tell the country that maybe all that public trust was a bit misplaced.

• OPINION

  The big issue: Passports, please

  Alan Dawson, Published on 14/02/2016

  » All newspapers carried this big story of the week, with the <i>Bangkok Post</i> cutting immediately to the chase.

• OPINION

  The big issue: When terror spreads its wings

  Alan Dawson, Published on 22/11/2015

  » The first time Airports of Thailand announced a spiffy new security system, the top song was Change Clothes by the exciting new rapper Jay-Z. George W Bush was not only US president, but he was in Bangkok, and he urged prime minister Voldemort (later Lord Voldemort) to put in this new system and bring Don Mueang, the official international airport, up to date with the rest of the world.

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