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"Not Here For Decoration": Thai Transgender Parliamentarians Make History
Thursday, June 6, 2019, 9:09 PM
Smiling broadly, Tanwarin triumphantly cast her vote for prime minister as first transgender MPs enter parliament in Thailand, where tolerance for the LGBT community is not matched by understanding or opportunity in public life. Tanwarin Sukkhapisit, a lawmaker for the progressive anti-junta FFP, is one of four transgender MPs in the house pioneers in society where discrimination in education, employment and at home persists.
Bodybags, Rats, Waste: Disaster Response Turns To VR For Grim Training
Wednesday, March 27, 2019, 7:24 PM
A Thai policewoman trudges through waste and ruined buildings looking for bodies but she needs only a joystick and a-virtual-reality headset for grim-task, as technology comes to aid of disaster-management-training. As around 40-police-officers watch her progress on a-large-screen, officer Chanika Sookreang's digital double goes from body to body in ruined-city, photographing-tattoos, faces anything that can later be used to establish who the victim was.
"Prevent Chaos": King's Message As Voting Underway In Thailand
Sunday, March 24, 2019, 1:55 PM
Polls opened Sunday for the first Thai election since a 2014 coup, with a high turnout expected among a public who received a cryptic last-minute warning from the Thai king to support "good" leaders to prevent "chaos." All television stations repeated the rare statement by King Maha Vajiralongkorn moments before polls opened across a politically turbulent country.
