• OPINION

  Aurora changes nothing in Colorado's gun debate

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 23/07/2012

  » The chances that last week's cinema massacre will result in changes to gun laws in the United States, or the state of Colorado, are so slim they barely exist.

• OPINION

  Land of smiles redux

  Alan Dawson, Published on 08/06/2014

  » And the word went out, and there was happiness everywhere. Or there soon will be. Or else.

• OPINION

  The big issue: If the samples don't fit...

  Alan Dawson, Published on 02/11/2014

  » The Koh Tao murder drama took unexpected turns a few days ago, with the main spotlight on the country's two top security men suddenly plunging into a sideshow that supposedly proved who did not kill the two young English tourists on Sept 15.

• OPINION

  The big issue: The goats of August

  Alan Dawson, Published on 26/07/2015

  » Army officers approached Sama-ae Thanam in his Yala prison cell last month, according to the former Pulo terrorist. He quickly agreed to their proposal to support government-sponsored peace moves in exchange for breathing the free air of the deep South — not because they were extra persuasive, but rather because he had been thinking over his support of violence for a long time.

• OPINION

  The big issue: We must 'do something'

  Alan Dawson, Published on 10/01/2016

  » A police constable summed up the situation perfectly after tough enforcement failed to stem the New Year’s holiday road slaughter. “People are absolutely not getting the message,” the constable told reporters from a TV news station. In Toronto.

• OPINION

  The Big Issue: An unwelcome visitor

  Alan Dawson, Published on 21/02/2016

  » Just before Christmas 2014, a United States Embassy attache in Bangkok received a phone call. The caller told him that an American man who was known to have sexually abused a 14-year-old boy in Pattaya had contacted the youth via Facebook to try to score another sexual date six months ahead.

• OPINION

  The big issue: The terrorists who didn’t

  Alan Dawson, Published on 27/03/2016

  » The suicide bombs at Belgium brought heightened alert to Bangkok’s airports and embassies, while police on overtime patrolled tourist-friendly areas of the country, just in case.

• OPINION

  The mugging of Narudee

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 18/09/2016

  » On the hot afternoon of Aug 8 just outside Korat, 58-year-old physical education teacher Paithoon Klaengkratok was mightily exasperated at those snippy young girls in his outdoor class at Chokchai Samakkee School. They would not sit down in the sunlight to hear his wisdom, and were even standing up to try to get some shade.

• WORLD

  The man who kills people

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 19/02/2017

  » Sending two women assassins he probably vetted personally after his half-brother seems a weird act for the leader of a country. For Kim Jong-un and for his father and for his father's father, it was Monday.

• 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.

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