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The sounds of Thainess
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 23/03/2022
» International success on the classical music stage comes with devotion and a real passion to pursue what one embraces. In the case of teen sisters Valika and Akira Trivisvavet, it was Thai culture.
Rotten to the core
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 13/09/2021
» I salute the brave whistleblower who recently brought to light the rampant police abuse of a suspect. This time, it was at the hands of Colonel Thitisant "Jo Ferrari" Utthanaphon, a former police chief of Nakhon Sawan police station who was caught on video torturing 24-year-old drug suspect Jirapong Tanapat to death. He placed six plastic bags over his head.
Working towards a better future
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 22/03/2021
» For two decades, Kyungsun Kim has worked to bring humanitarian and developmental aid to children of all creeds and races. Her numerous posts have included serving in Panama and Sudan as a programme specialist and between 2012 and 2016, she was a senior adviser for Unicef in New York managing external relations and partnerships.
When the innocent fall victim
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 19/10/2020
» Two years ago, anti-death penalty advocates were surprised by Thailand's first execution in nine years when 26-year-old Teerasak Longji was executed at Bangkok's Bang Kwang Central Prison by lethal injection for aggravated murder.
Scaling great heights
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 25/09/2020
» What the multi-faceted adventurer photographer Cory Richards craves is not for the faint-hearted.
A cure for policing ills
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 14/07/2020
» When footage of George Floyd's arrest first surfaced on the internet, many around the world, including Pol Lt Col Krisanaphong Poothakool and Pol Lt Col Peabprom Mekhiyanont, watched in horror as Derek Chauvin, a 19-year police veteran, attempted to arrest the man on suspicion of using counterfeit notes by pinning him to the ground and kneeling on the back of his neck despite Floyd's pleas that he could not breathe.
Ignore the Rohingya at our peril
Asia focus, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 20/11/2017
» It was not just human rights groups that were let down last week when Asean leaders invoked their principle of non-interference in each other's internal affairs and skirted around the ongoing mass exodus of persecuted Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar.
The boy racers
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 27/07/2015
» Pimply faced teenage schoolmates Art, Odd and Arm have one common passion: street motorcycle racing. It is an illegal passion, but a hobby they say has earned them the love and attention they do not get at home.
Breaking chains of oppression
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 25/11/2014
» Suthin Krerothanee is ashamed of the fact that for half his life he verbally and physically abused his wife of 20 years.
The biggest winners
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 09/04/2013
» Traffic policeman Nithat Si-sard's mammoth 144kg frame offers little hint of what he once had: the physique of a body builder. A glimpse of that old self emerges, fleetingly, when he flexes whatever is left of his chest muscles.