PRIME MINISTER Prayut Chan-o-cha became a laughing stock after he suggested that everybody in Thailand read George Orwell’s dystopian novel, “Animal Farm”.

Solo pro-democracy activist Ake Auttagorn showed up unexpectedly in the middle of the press conference on the junta leader’s watch scandal at the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) office on Wednesday, and gave a picture of a fictional dictator to the agency’s secretary-general.