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Keeping cops in check
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 08/06/2020
» Type police brutality in Google and most likely you will find trending news headlines such as: "Why George Floyd Won't Be Last American Killed By Police''.
Double jeopardy
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 11/05/2020
» Despite a steady decline in new coronavirus cases in Thailand, the country still sees a concern with regard to possible infections in prisons.
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.
The blanket that protects
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 19/02/2020
» Quilts as an art form to address human rights is a novel way to encourage society to stand up and collectively fight for a social cause that impacts people from all walks of life.
Alone in a crowd
Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 02/08/2019
» A cruel irony of 21st century life is that social media often leads to isolation
Alone in a crowd
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 01/08/2019
» Obsession with social media and mobile application technology is fast creating a socially isolated society, say medical experts.
Remaking a life from prison
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 30/07/2019
» Launching her career as a barista behind bars wasn't exactly how former drug convict Oui*, a vibrant young mother, envisioned her life turning out.
The soul stirrers
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 01/07/2019
» Like many other kids his age, Patapol Thanomchan spent nine hours a day playing video games, which brought about many unwanted consequences. Fortunately, this is in his past.
A better you behind bars
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 12/06/2019
» Although drag queen Golf* and tomboy Tee* are so different especially in terms of outer appearance and gender identity, they have one thing in common. Both -- representing the LGBT community at the Chanthaburi Provincial Prison -- have used their talents to become role model prisoners.
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.