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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.
Turning red into green
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 22/07/2018
» Rarely in recent Thai political history has a government minister been so honest, so open and so utterly truthful as was PM's Office Minister Kobsak Pootrakool last Sunday.
Censors without borders
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 17/06/2018
» US President Donald Trump announced last Thursday that the North Korean nuclear threat is over, and that "fake news" is thus the No.1 threat. The men of Asia's only remaining military regime nodded.
Intimidation and censors
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 29/04/2018
» The general prime minister revealed a huge tell about what to expect if you have the good sense to vote the right way and approve of leaving him right where he is at Government House. He will act just like Voldemort and Abhisit and the rest of those (pa-tooey!) professional politicians that put us in this horrible position.
Silence rewarded
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 05/11/2017
» The prosecutor of Pattani province officially dropped the army's charges under the criminal defamation and Computer Crime Act laws against three civil rights veterans who had the audacity to detail 54 incidents of torture in the deep South and publish a book about them, entitled <i>Torture</i>.
Peak army
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 29/10/2017
» We have seen Thais come together so many times, but never like that.
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.
Meet the billionaires
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.
A complicated man
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 11/09/2016
» He was no man for all seasons so much as a man of many faces.
The big issue: Holey security in action
Alan Dawson, Published on 28/08/2016
» Cyber-thieves joined the tourist crowds to Thailand early this month and quickly jackpotted 12 million baht from 21 of the distinctive red Government Savings Bank ATMs in Bangkok and five provinces. And walked away with the money.