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Life without populism
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 06/05/2018
» Once upon a time in a land very, very far away with a "government by the people, for the people" there was a plan to fix recalcitrant taxi drivers and make them pick up passengers, politely, and then to reward the drivers with a fare increase. And that plan was carried out in the faraway country, and passengers were happy to reward deserving, hard-working, uncomplaining taxi drivers.
Manacled again
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 08/04/2018
» It has been quite an early summer harvest for the regime combines baling up inconvenient voices.
The third Chinese curse
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 20/08/2017
» It's unclear why Seh Pete went so aggressively and even excessively after Pai Dao Din.
You had one job
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 09/07/2017
» Today's media control tip is when the Royal Thai Navy can't get the job done, send in the army and the Ministry of Interior. (More on the navy in a moment.)
The big issue: Appearing for the disappeared
Alan Dawson, Published on 27/12/2015
» On March 12, 2004, five policemen pulled Somchai Neelapaijit from his car in Bangkok, and he never was seen in public since. His wife Angkhana has kept the case alive, and authorities have made some attempts to resolve what the prime minister of the day called a “complicated case” involving official violence.
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.