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How bad are the problems at Thai royal company Siam Bioscience which have derailed Thailand's mass inoculation drive after just a week and caused delays in deliveries to Malaysia, Taiwan and the Philippines (and maybe more countries we don't know about)? Here comes a THREAD 1/15 
As is widely known by now, Siam Bioscience is a totally opaque company which has consistently failed to provide even basic information, and the Thai government is routinely lying to cover up problems at Siam Bioscience because they are terrified of offending Vajiralongkorn 2/15
On June 2, Siam Bioscience held a weird ceremony with no journalists invited, presided over by Vajiralongkorn's right-hand man Satitpong Sukvimol with a speech by Princess Sirivannavari's bff Nualphan “Madam Pang” Lamsam, to mark the delivery of the first 1.8 million doses 3/15
My latest #SecretSiam article tells the story of political godfather Newin Chidchob, and it struck me that like a malignant Forrest Gump, he was present at most of the disasters and scandals of recent decades. Here's a THREAD about his shady past secretsiam.news/p/mafia-bosses… 1/16
An early classic episode in Newin's career was when he paid some crooked police to bomb his own house, to try to make him look like a brave whistleblower at risk of being assassinated by his enemies. Professor @bkksnow wrote about it in this paper journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09… 2/16
In 1995, his vote canvassers were caught with a huge stash of his elections leaflets each with 120 baht stapled to them. The total haul was 11.4 million baht. Newin said he knew nothing about the vote buying antics of his canvassers and escaped charges. 3/16
The latest edition of my #SecretSiam newsetter is about the tragic history of refugees in Thailand. For decades, the military has violated the human rights of people seeking asylum on Thai soil. 1/8 secretsiam.news/p/the-tragic-h…
The latest developments on the border, with troops forcing Karen people fleeing airstrikes to go back to Myanmar, and PM Prayut and foreign ministry spokesman @SangratTanee lying about it, are typical of how successive regimes have dealt with refugees vimeo.com/532734572 2/8
One of the worst ever incidents was in 1979 when the Thai army forced 45,000 Cambodian refugees down a cliff and through minefields near Preah Vihear, leading to thousands of deaths. 3/8
