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Tackling online gender bias
Life, Published on 08/04/2019
» Khunying Lin Srivisanvaja was the first Thai woman to receive a medical degree and practise medicine in Thailand. Sumalee Viravaidya, a journalist, ensured a gender equality clause was added to the Thai constitution. Khunying Yai Damrongthammasan was a devout dhamma practitioner who wrote a widely celebrated Buddhist text.
Home improvement
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 08/03/2016
» Despite decades of campaigning, gender equality is still the main agenda of the women's rights movement.
The new law of the land
B Magazine, Published on 03/01/2016
» Sadly, there was no fresh manuscript neatly wrapped under the Christmas tree. We did get a new Star Wars film in time for the holidays (spoiler: the rolling robot’s the best character), but we still have to wait for the latest gift from the Constitution Drafting Committee.
Gender, sex and politics
Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 29/01/2015
» Along with nationality, age and religion, the Thai Constitution has recognised the term "sex" as one factor that should not be subject to discrimination.
Making connections, not cash
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 21/01/2015
» Artist Pisitakun Kuantalaeng, 28, was once a Yellow Shirt. In less than a decade, Pisitakun went from a fervent supporter of anti-Thaksin politics and airport seizures to an artist who took to the streets after the junta seized power last May.
Radiohead redux
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 26/07/2013
» Every day Amnarj Sonimsart wakes up at 3am. "That's normal for an 80-year-old," he chuckles. The first thing he does is flick on the TV to catch BBC and CNN; then he checks the stock and oil prices, noting down important fluctuations for later use. At 4.20am _ he states the time with the casual precision of someone who's been following the same schedule without fail for a long time _ his driver takes him from his house in Pattanakarn to the radio station in Lumpini Park ("my daughter forbids me from driving"). At 5.10, Amnarj begins sipping a cup of Ovaltine while scouring the Thai-language newspapers laid out for him, lighting on items of interest and quickly digesting their contents. On the dot of 5.50am, he prepares for a task he's performed for 46 years straight: leaning slightly forward, he gets ready to switch on his mic and go on air.
The curtain raiser
Muse, Napamon Roongwitoo, Published on 07/01/2012
» Alisa Phanthusak's simple style and demure elegance might strike a sharp contrast with the eye-widening extravagance of the world-renowned spectacle she's in charge of - the Tiffany's Show - but the philosophy is one and the same: Having faith in creativity.