A Thai high-school-student kicked into a coma by his schoolmates died Thursday, police said, raising alarm about a hazing culture in the country's institutions. Rituals referred to collectively as SOTUS Seniority, Order, Tradition, Unity, Spirit are commonplace in universities, vocational-schools, high-schools, and even the military academy each-year. Two of seniors will be tried in juvenile court because they are below the age of 18.

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.

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.