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  • OPINION

    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.

  • OPINION

    Rice pledging scheme deja vu

    News, Alan Dawson, Published on 06/11/2016

    » In the early 1980s, as a post-Vietnam war peace took shape in Southeast Asia, Thailand made an important decision. To be more correct, Thailand decided not to decide about rice.

  • OPINION

    Turning red into green

    News, Alan Dawson, Published on 22/07/2018

    » Rarely in recent Thai political history has a government minister been so honest, so open and so utterly truthful as was PM's Office Minister Kobsak Pootrakool last Sunday.

  • THAILAND

    Meet the billionaires

    News, Alan Dawson, Published on 30/10/2016

    » There are rich people in this world, and there are rich families. Many of them are so quiet they are almost anonymous. Take the Yoovidhaya family of Thailand.

  • OPINION

    The big issue: We know where you are

    Alan Dawson, Published on 14/08/2016

    » In all, the military regime in just one week came up with four new ways they intend to track people in the coming days and months.

  • OPINION

    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.

  • OPINION

    The big issue: Tick-tock

    Alan Dawson, Published on 04/05/2014

    » For six months, it has been a death match, but politics has suddenly taken on the air of a death watch. In a matter of days, the actions of caretaker prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra will be judged by two bodies generally seen as critics or worse, and the top man at either one can literally throw her out of office as easy as snapping his fingers. Easier.

  • THAILAND

    The big issue: Kamnan Thep hits the streets

    Alan Dawson, Published on 01/12/2013

    » Anti-government leader Suthep Thaugsuban attracted a huge crowd last Sunday to his "million-man rally", the biggest political protest since the 2005 heyday of the pre-coup yellow shirts.

  • THAILAND

    The big issue: Back to square one

    Alan Dawson, Published on 03/11/2013

    » At 4.25am on Friday, there were 314 members of the Pheu Thai Party, a barebones staff of essential employees and a few very tired TV cameramen sending the proceedings around the country. The Democrats, without a hope of winning a vote on the issue or procedure, had already walked out.

  • THAILAND

    THE BIG ISSUE: Blowing the whistle on graft

    Alan Dawson, Published on 06/07/2013

    » The rear wheels of the national train wreck known as the rice-pledging scheme will not come flying off the tracks until September, after the second crop is in.

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