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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.
To catch an online predator
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 13/07/2020
» Sending a half-naked photo of herself to her new Facebook admirer, a boy she thought was 15, felt like a flirtatious move that 14-year-old Ned* believed would show she was serious about having a romantic relationship with the handsome teen whose photoshopped profile photo made him out to be a stud.
Thailand's other pandemic
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 02/06/2020
» May* stood impassively over the lifeless body of her estranged husband. A pistol clinched tightly in her trembling right hand. The firearm, purchased over the internet by her husband who was a gun enthusiast and member of a shooting range, was the weapon she used on the fateful day she resorted to drastic measures to stop her husband from hurting her. A company manager, May was on the verge of a nasty divorce from her partner, a physically abusive man with a drinking problem.
Learning from the Lunlabelle tragedy
Asia focus, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 30/09/2019
» The untimely death of Thitima "Lunlabelle" Noraphanpiphat, a popular product presenter, from alcohol poisoning has raised a number of questions that the media has attempted to address as police continue investigating the circumstances leading up to her demise.
An educational lifeline
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 02/04/2018
» Ten-year-old Andrew* and elder sister Angelina*, 16, are from a family of six Pakistani Christian asylum seekers whose only respite from anxious thoughts is when they attend school.
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.
Grim realities
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 12/09/2017
» Hajee Ismail has hardly slept since receiving news late last month from his family in Buthidaung township that the Myanmar military had begun a brutal crackdown of Rohingya villages in Rakhine state. Ismail's community where he once played as a young boy had been burnt down.
Taking on the traffickers
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 17/07/2017
» Life's unkindnesses turned Wirawan Mosby, 2017 recipient of the US Secretary of State Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report Hero Award, into a woman of valour.
Ramadan in exile
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 13/06/2017
» The Islamic holy month of Ramadan is a time for spiritual reflection, self-improvement and family gathering, unless you're a refugee or asylum seeker, cast adrift into a land far away from home and family.
Living in limbo
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 21/03/2017
» It is hard not to get noticed in a sea of Thai faces when you are Middle Eastern. Being a refugee in Thailand, which is very "grey" on such status, will only add to the predicament.