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    Two hats not good

    News, Alan Dawson, Published on 07/10/2018

    » When Bangkok got too noisy because of all the criticism about cabinet ministers taking advantage by openly playing politics unfairly, the general prime minister escaped to the North on another scrupulously non-political trip to give away money and be photographed with every local personality and housewife within 20 kilometres.

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    The good old days

    News, Alan Dawson, Published on 09/09/2018

    » If you've ever said in support of the coup regime that, yes, it's great that junta and government are dedicated to returning Thailand to those good old days, then you'll be forever grateful to the national police chief and the whole bunch of the unreformed Royal Thai Police.

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    The Isoc solution

    News, Alan Dawson, Published on 26/11/2017

    » Two weeks ago, the general prime minister warned "anti-coup elements" he was on to them. Last week, he told the media to stop annoying him. Two days later, he showed brand new fangs.

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    Cell-by dates

    News, Alan Dawson, Published on 06/08/2017

    » The day after That Woman's closing statement in her malfeasance trial, national deputy police chief Srivara Ransibrahmanakul seemed painfully unhappy about something. He looked the way men with look with multi-day dyschezia or domestic dissimilarity. He said her approximately 900 supporters gathered at the court were well behaved "thanks to the 300 police" he ordered in.

  • News & article

    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.

  • News & article

    Double tap confounded

    News, Alan Dawson, Published on 14/05/2017

    » The images haunt. A mother, with a wounded face, clutches her daughter and hunkers down beside the detergent shelves. A blackened battery and two wheels, all that is left of the stolen pickup crammed with cooking gas cans. Social media simply taking over the corporate Facebook pages of Big C to post thousands of photos, videos and messages.

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    The big issue: Web of intrigue

    Alan Dawson, Published on 25/10/2015

    » Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak had a Horton the Elephant moment about hatching the single-gateway internet egg. He said he didn’t want to talk about it. And when the egg hatched, it was the media who found the yolk was on them.

  • News & article

    The big issue: Foxes drafted for henhouse duty

    Alan Dawson, Published on 04/10/2015

    » The discovery of the previously secret plans to pipe the entire internet through one government-monitored tube was made by frequent tweeter @sikachu, whose online name is Prem Sichanugrist.

  • News & article

    The big issue: Our man in Milan

    Alan Dawson, Published on 19/10/2014

    » The spotlight fell even more strongly on Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha last week. And no one, not the most vengeful anti-coup opponent, seemed to feel worse about the constant attention than the man himself.

  • News & article

    Freebies for rice farmers

    Alan Dawson, Published on 05/10/2014

    » It's not a bad job, all things considered, to be a member of the military government. The pay's fine, the perks are outstanding, you don't have to put up with any of that "democratic protest" nonsense like Beijing's flunky in Hong Kong suffers.

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