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    Project Singapore gathers pace

    News, Alan Dawson, Published on 23/04/2017

    » Bangkok is a semi-province under the central regime, "governed" (literally) by a police general, Aswin Kwanmuang. He was working at City Hall when the general prime minister tapped him on the shoulder last October and dubbed him Baron of Bangkok, lord of all that the military regime doesn't want to bother with.

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    Two hats not good

    News, Alan Dawson, Published on 07/10/2018

    » When Bangkok got too noisy because of all the criticism about cabinet ministers taking advantage by openly playing politics unfairly, the general prime minister escaped to the North on another scrupulously non-political trip to give away money and be photographed with every local personality and housewife within 20 kilometres.

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    The Isoc solution

    News, Alan Dawson, Published on 26/11/2017

    » Two weeks ago, the general prime minister warned "anti-coup elements" he was on to them. Last week, he told the media to stop annoying him. Two days later, he showed brand new fangs.

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    The big issue: Time for truth: Life isn’t fair

    Alan Dawson, Published on 02/08/2015

    » For Malaysia and Cuba it was a good week, locked for the moment in the embrace of The Superpower, and off the hook for human trafficking. Rewards favoured the member of the Trans-Pacific Partnership for higher drug prices and the worst human rights violator in the entire Western Hemisphere.

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    The Big Issue: Will she or won't she?

    Alan Dawson, Published on 05/04/2014

    » Yingluck Shinawatra will mark her third Songkran as prime minister next Sunday. Sane bookies are not betting on a fourth. In fact, you can find pretty good odds today she won't be in office to celebrate her third Visakha Bucha Day, little more than a month away.

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