• OPINION

  Conspiracy of errors has saved Bangkok thus far

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 16/02/2012

  » Thailand continues to play a bit role in the Mideast conflict and, as the Valentine's Day bomb debacle in Bangkok has shown, the country also seems to attract mostly second-string operatives in the violence.

• OPINION

  I want to believe

  Alan Dawson, Published on 24/06/2012

  » The strange saga of suspicious scientific silence may turn out to be one of the most sensational conspiracies of the year. But it probably won't.

• THAILAND

  US report details post-9/11 torture in Thailand

  Alan Dawson, Published on 22/04/2013

  » A report by a bipartisan US task force on interrogation and torture of al-Qaeda suspects after the Sept 11 attacks presents the most complete picture yet of Thailand's covert role in the process.

• THAILAND

  The Big Issue: Will she or won't she?

  Alan Dawson, Published on 05/04/2014

  » Yingluck Shinawatra will mark her third Songkran as prime minister next Sunday. Sane bookies are not betting on a fourth. In fact, you can find pretty good odds today she won't be in office to celebrate her third Visakha Bucha Day, little more than a month away.

• OPINION

  The big issue: If the samples don't fit...

  Alan Dawson, Published on 02/11/2014

  » The Koh Tao murder drama took unexpected turns a few days ago, with the main spotlight on the country's two top security men suddenly plunging into a sideshow that supposedly proved who did not kill the two young English tourists on Sept 15.

• OPINION

  The big issue: Man with a history

  Alan Dawson, Published on 07/06/2015

  » Whoever writes the script for the movie of his life — which, by the way, someone definitely should do — will have to tone it down a bit or many viewers won’t believe that just one man has done what three-star Gen Manas Kongpan has done.

• OPINION

  The big issue: The week in terrorism

  Alan Dawson, Published on 29/11/2015

  » Around the world and around the country, we were all Belgians. Brussels lowered the national terror alert on Friday from “imminent” to “serious and credible”. (Fact check: True. Reality check: Who could make it up?) One day it was “be very afraid” and a mere day later it had dropped to “be afraid”.

• OPINION

  That election: CliffNotes edition

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 13/11/2016

  » Well, since at least half of us here today, dear reader, correctly predicted both fact and scope of the Orange Crush express months ahead, here are thoughts on that.

• WORLD

  The man who kills people

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 19/02/2017

  » Sending two women assassins he probably vetted personally after his half-brother seems a weird act for the leader of a country. For Kim Jong-un and for his father and for his father's father, it was Monday.

• THAILAND

  Vale of Tiers

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 23/07/2017

  » It was a great trial. But rather than prime the pumps for a lift out of the basement, it actually illustrates why Thailand is stuck at that Tier 2 (Watch List) level on the US State Department's Trafficking in Persons (TIP) list that obsesses the general prime minister and millions more including the media.

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