• THAILAND

  Time on their side

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 18/03/2018

  » They took down the Interpol Red Notice to locate, arrest and hold for extradition Thailand's most infamous wilding child last week. Vorayuth "Boss" Yoovidhya is further off the hook than ever.

• THAILAND

  The war bringer

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 12/03/2017

  » The southern rebellion against the government begins its 58th year tomorrow. It will be the first time the anniversary is marked without any of the original 1960 instigators but in particular it will go on without its primary leader, better called the godfather of the southern conflict.

• THAILAND

  Facebook murders

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 30/04/2017

  » So now the sun never sets on countries where people have murdered in order to boost their Facebook followers.

• THAILAND

  The Fakebook Diaries

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 01/01/2017

  » Around 15 million or so people noticed last Tuesday that there was no bomb or large explosion anywhere in Bangkok. None of those people worked for Facebook, which is OK, but after the "explosion", people who work for Facebook insisted there was, actually, an explosion.

• THAILAND

  What, we worry?

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 18/02/2018

  » Last week filled out the cast of the least-awaited drama in Thai TV news history, <i>The Untouchables: Bred Men Walking</i>, starring the Watchman, the FAT man and the Catman.

• THAILAND

  Election perfection

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 04/03/2018

  » The general prime minister reached behind himself to a very dark place and pulled out the sixth promise for a date for the 2015 election. This time the card he pulled out said "February 2019".

• THAILAND

  The victim card

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 28/01/2018

  » If you are a patriot working tirelessly and selflessly to try to save your country from the lower classes but some people think you are responsible for the actions of your friends and mentors, you may be a victim.

• THAILAND

  Living the high life

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 24/12/2017

  » A week ago today we told a first-time visitor from the beautiful US state of Colorado to forget about seeing "the real, so-called authentic Thailand" because there isn't a square centimetre where tourists do not tread. The next day we set out on a family trip to places with not a foreign face in sight (one obvious exception).

• 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

  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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