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You've been gouged
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 05/02/2017
» How can we fleece you? Let me count the ways. That probably wasn't an unusual week, just a more transparent one.
Abu Sayyaf beheading deadline nears
Alan Dawson, Published on 25/04/2016
» Asia's most vicious terrorist group has set a deadline of 2pm Monday (Thailand time) to behead at least one of three foreign and one Filipina hostages it holds in the southern Philippines.
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.
Lo Hsing Han: the life and crimes of Asia's heroin king
Spectrum, Alan Dawson, Published on 21/07/2013
» Lo Hsing Han, who was buried in Yangon last week, led three exciting lives in his 80 or so years.
Skyline Ridge defenders receive their due at last
Spectrum, Alan Dawson, Published on 08/09/2013
» The Battle for Skyline Ridge lasted 108 days, involved thousands of troops from four countries, war planes from three, and is probably the least known important military engagement in recent history.