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Don't suffer in silence
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 07/03/2022
» In the hours leading up to her suicide, former Miss USA Cheslie Kryst, who was an attorney, an entertainment news correspondent, a fashion blogger and a volunteer, shared a photo of herself on Instagram with the caption that read: "May this day bring you rest and peace."
Stand by me
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 24/08/2021
» After years of self-inflicted knife wounds on her wrists in a bid to end her life, Nan*,17, mustered enough courage to send a troubling Line message to seek help from @saidek1387, one among a handful of counselling platforms Childline Thailand Foundation uses to reach out to troubled youth.
Not just a physical disease
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 29/04/2020
» A man from Narathiwat province who was due to be released from a Covid-19 quarantine facility jumped to his death from the fifth floor of a state hospital in Phra Pradaeng district of Samut Prakan province last month. Days before, in the province of Chiang Mai, another Thai male cut short his life in the same manner after learning that he had tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
Guardian angels
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 10/09/2018
» Chaiwat Duangkem receives a bone-chilling call from a frantic woman, whose mentally unstable husband is in the middle of committing suicide. As team leader at privately owned ambulance service Medical Safety Team (MST) Thailand, which caters largely to mentally ill individuals, he learns that members of the patient's family restrained the hallucinating man, who is profusely bleeding from a self-inflicted wound but refuses to go to the hospital, before calling MST as their last resort.
The clean-up act
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 25/03/2015
» Continuing our series on ordinary people often overlooked by society, we follow a street sweeper as she makes her early-morning rounds in central Bangkok
Law and Order: Special Victims Unit
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 09/12/2014
» Understaffed, overworked and generally loathed by the public for their infamous corruption scandals, the Royal Thai Police force is facing one of its worst periods in history.
The Facebook detective
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 18/09/2012
» With improvised detective work, a strong sense of desperation, and much help from Facebook, a woman made headlines when she helped the police nab a con artist. Gullibility had made her a victim, but her case is an example of how determination to fight back _ and the wide reach of social networking _ can turn the situation around.