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  • OPINION

    Data security a foreign concept

    News, Alan Dawson, Published on 22/04/2018

    » You'd think that just about the worst thing that could happen in today's charged smartphone-internet intersection is the theft of many thousands of the most important identification documents and personal details of mobile phone owners. But you'd be wrong.

  • 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.

  • OPINION

    Peeing on our parade

    News, Alan Dawson, Published on 08/07/2018

    » Free wi-fi is now available for all guests in Hall 3 of Tham Luang, owned by Jao Mae Nang Non.

  • THAILAND

    Rule of law

    News, Alan Dawson, Published on 25/03/2018

    » When your main tool is a hammer, the cliche notes well, then after a while, every problem looks like a nail. The general prime minister has wielded a totally personal, custom-made, gold-plated hammer for the past four years, and even has given it a cute nickname.

  • OPINION

    Long and winding roadmap

    News, Alan Dawson, Published on 01/04/2018

    » Question: Is it more scary, or less scary, that the junta doesn't have an actual plan slash conspiracy to keep itself in power? That it has extended its time and generous pay and perks without any design ever since the phantom 2015 election?

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

    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.

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