• THAILAND

  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>.

• 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

  Peak army

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 29/10/2017

  » We have seen Thais come together so many times, but never like that.

• OPINION

  The big issue: Sparing country [redacted]

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 14/12/2014

  » In 2002, in the wake of the 9/11 terrorism and US military pushback, the CIA opened a secret facility in central Thailand. The agency brought two high-level al-Qaeda operatives, Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, to the site and launched a new programme of "enhanced interrogation" techniques on them including physical assault and waterboarding, distressing many US officials.

• OPINION

  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.

• OPINION

  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.

• OPINION

  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.

• 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

  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.

• OPINION

  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.

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