• OPINION

  A mad, mad week

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 20/05/2018

  » Week Three of the 2019-2020 election campaign was Crazy Week. There always is at least one.

• THAILAND

  You had one job

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 09/07/2017

  » Today's media control tip is when the Royal Thai Navy can't get the job done, send in the army and the Ministry of Interior. (More on the navy in a moment.)

• NEWS

  Tip of the iceberg

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 14/01/2018

  » Myanmar's government and entirely out-of-touch military soiled themselves again, over the Rohingya issue of course.

• THAILAND

  Revenge of the kamnan

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 22/01/2017

  » It had been 975 days since the military regime did anything to justify the coup d'etat that was needed specifically to bring happiness back to the people by national reconciliation. So the general prime minister named a 98-man, three tier committee of otherwise unemployed two-, three- and four-starred green shirts to draw daily allowances and proceed to bring about unity.

• OPINION

  The empty chairs of Buri Ram

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 13/05/2018

  » The general prime minister packed his kit for yet another two-day trip to the provinces, an adoring welcome and ownership of every front page in his country.

• 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.

• THAILAND

  The Big Issue: A torture culture

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 05/03/2017

  » Ravina Shamdasani, a human rights officer for the United Nations Human Rights Council, says Thailand has a torture culture.

• OPINION

  The Big Issue: Whine stewards

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 23/10/2016

  » A few hundred people, perhaps even a few thousand (say 0.005% of all Thai people), decided last week to become the experts in mourning. For lack of a better phrase, they appointed themselves as Mourning Police (MPs).

• OPINION

  The big issue: A scandal per day

  Alan Dawson, Published on 24/04/2016

  » The public learned a bit more about how the system works, and it was not a pretty sight. The lesson of the week was arguably that anyone — literally anyone who can do it, does it. Not only does it but actually takes it as an expected perk.

• OPINION

  The big issue: So help me God

  Alan Dawson, Published on 31/01/2016

  » Donald Trump has not mentioned “Thailand” since he began his campaign to become the Republican Party candidate for United States president last June. That's the good news. No, really, that's good news.

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