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In a most interesting opinion piece, The Nation’s Weerayut Chokchaimadon has taken umbrage at the Thai junta’s efforts to clamp down on the media and its reporting on elected former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.  This attack on the Council for National Security (CNS) shows that there are growing cracks in the, admittedly flimsy, alliance of intellectuals and opinion-formers that have long sought [...]

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Over at Asian Analysis, which is the monthly e-round-up produced by ASEAN Focus, Milton Osborne, a prolific writer on diverse Southeast Asian topics, has penned a brief report on Cambodian politics. 
For anybody looking for a tightly written overview of recent events, Osborne’s piece is certainly worth a read. 

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