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Communication breakdown
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 29/07/2025
» Athipat Boonleang, a deaf gay rider, was on the way to deliver a parcel. Confused by the customer's location, she sent a text message to no avail. She contacted an online sign language interpretation service only to find that it is suspended.
More interpreters needed
News, Post Reporters, Published on 02/06/2025
» More sign language interpreters will be hired to support the 400,000 hearing-impaired people nationwide, says the Social Development and Human Security Ministry.
Evolving language
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 21/04/2025
» During a medical check-up, Pin consulted a doctor about receiving gender-affirming care. In an ideal setting, a sign language interpreter would communicate with her by painstakingly finger-spelling the concept "hormone". But when such assistance was not available, she and the doctor resorted to writing on paper.
A better way forward
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 29/11/2022
» Bangkok has an image of a gay-friendly city, but LGBTI still face discrimination.
Disabled dodging bombs in war
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 16/10/2022
» In her rundown apartment building on the edge of Kharkiv, a city in northeastern Ukraine, Antonina Andriyenko felt the vibrations but couldn't hear the explosions when Russia invaded in late February. She knew something was happening only when her panicked neighbours rushed to leave.
Inside Indonesia's Islamic boarding school for deaf children
AFP, Published on 05/07/2022
» YOGYAKARTA (INDONESIA) - At an Islamic boarding school in a sleepy neighbourhood on the outskirts of the Indonesian city Yogyakarta, the sound of Koranic recitation is nowhere to be heard.
Man lured girl, 8, to send him nude photos
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 30/09/2021
» Technology Crime Suppression police have arrested a 37-year-old man in Chumphon for allegedly persuading an eight-year-old girl to send him nude photos of herself.
Embracing differences
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 10/12/2020
» There are certain stereotypes of disabled people in Thailand. Often on TV programmes, people with disabilities are portrayed as those who are dependent on others and require donations in order to survive.
'One team': disabled duo help each other in war-torn Syria
AFP, Published on 13/11/2020
» DAMASCUS - One is deaf and mute, the other is paralysed from the waist down; but together, Ahmad and Bader form a duo equipped to handle life in war-torn Syria.
Costly, but transparent masks are boon for hard of hearing
AFP, Published on 23/08/2020
» PARIS - Transparent facemasks and shields are costly compared with classic counterparts but could prove a boon for the deaf and hard of hearing battling to communicate in the coronavirus era.