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Prayut fires warning shot
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 11/12/2016
» What a huge surprise it wasn't that authorities went for the jugular of the BBC when perusing foreign news coverage of succession to the throne.
Engine failure
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 04/12/2016
» The green shirts last week got what they came for back in May 2014. While happiness was returned to the National Council for Peace and Order, it became unclear how long it will last.
Rice pledging scheme deja vu
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 06/11/2016
» In the early 1980s, as a post-Vietnam war peace took shape in Southeast Asia, Thailand made an important decision. To be more correct, Thailand decided not to decide about rice.
The Big Issue: Redefining Defamation
Alan Dawson, Published on 27/04/2014
» Credit marketing flair and impeccable timing for the sudden new shine on an old idea whose time may have come around again.
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.
The big issue: Another predictable ruling
Alan Dawson, Published on 24/11/2013
» The Constitution Court slapped the government and parliament for specific offences against the charter, but once again stopped well short of a decisive ruling of just what steps judges consider legal in amending the supreme law.
Analysis: Strongman no more
Alan Dawson, Published on 29/07/2013
» Prime Minister Hun Sen of Cambodia clung to power in Sunday's national elections, but lost his reputation as an immovable force.
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.
The big issue: Fasting track to peace
Alan Dawson, Published on 15/06/2013
» For the first time in nearly 10 years - a little over nine years and seven months, but who's counting? - the guns could, repeat "could", fall silent across the deep South in a little more than three weeks.
Pop goes the green economy bubble
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 20/06/2012
» The green bubble has burst, bad news for the 50,000 people descending on Rio de Janeiro this week for yet another United Nations conference, but much worse news for the entrepreneurs and workers displaced or still riding the rapidly failing green industry's economic slipstream.