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  • THAILAND

    A bad week

    News, Alan Dawson, Published on 25/02/2018

    » Bad week for the military regime. The antediluvians in green absorbed punishment from foreigners galore. Worse, at home, protesters judged to be disloyal Thais went on the streets. And after three years, eight months and some days, the courts put on their steel-toed boots and confronted the regime's rules.

  • THAILAND

    Corruption and cover-ups

    News, Alan Dawson, Published on 29/01/2017

    » As they say in Narathiwat, it never rains but it pours. Wow! Sure, we asked about corruption, but we weren't expecting to be flooded out.

  • 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.

  • THAILAND

    The Lady is no champ

    News, Alan Dawson, Published on 19/11/2017

    » Aung San Suu Kyi went to Manila to celebrate her second anniversary (Nov 8) as elected leader of Myanmar. Nine Asean colleagues and a few foreign bigwigs played along but she's not getting the international respect due a de facto president and Nobel Peace laureate any more.

  • THAILAND

    The boy who cried 'Vote'

    News, Alan Dawson, Published on 15/10/2017

    » In the 85 years since the pioneering but no longer mentionable event concerning absolute rule, Thai citizens or some of them have voted in 27 elections. Or so. A few were free and fair. Most weren't, and things aren't looking too sunny for election No.28.

  • THAILAND

    The Big Issue: Those pesky tourists

    News, Alan Dawson, Published on 26/02/2017

    » If you need to watch a rant or even start a hot dispute, pick an expatriate, any expat, and say "double pricing".

  • THAILAND

    Hanging on until the end

    Spectrum, Alan Dawson, Published on 26/04/2015

    » Tuesday, April 29, 3pm. We’re 19 hours from communist victory, the fall of Saigon, the actual end of the Vietnam war, and photographer Hugh Van Es is gazing, lazily at first, out the front window of the United Press International bureau.

  • THAILAND

    The Big Issue: Cleansing the deep South

    Alan Dawson, Published on 13/04/2014

    » The week before Songkran was no holiday for Yala. The provincial capital was hit by coordinated bomb attacks on Sunday, and more on Monday. The large, destructive bombs killed one person and wounded 28. Clearly, the attacks had goals other than murder.

  • THAILAND

    The BIG STORY: Happy New Year?

    Alan Dawson, Published on 20/04/2014

    » The end of Songkran brought the urgency right back to politics. But not for long. The ear-splitting, street-bursting, epithet-howling weekend mobs didn't happen, as the judges and investigators suddenly came over all coy, and delayed all the important stuff — maybe for a few days, maybe for longer.

  • THAILAND

    THE BIG ISSUE: Finally, a Mr Big

    Alan Dawson, Published on 28/09/2013

    » There are, basically, two kinds of police - the honest kind and the other kind. As a result, there are two kinds of drug raids, the hopeful kind and the successful kind.

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