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‘Evil man from Krabi’: Thai image protectionism goes horribly wrong

By Saksith Saiyasombut & Siam Voices Mon, Nov 12, 2012 10:30AM UTC 0 Comment

In late October a YouTube video titled “Evil man from Krabi” was uploaded which describes an incident where a woman was assaulted and raped by a Thai tour guide earlier this summer in the Southern resort town of Ao Nang, Krabi province. It then turns into an English-language music video that repeats the accusations and...

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Thailand’s Human Rights Commission chimes in on topless painting

By Saksith Saiyasombut & Siam Voices Sun, Jun 24, 2012 10:00AM UTC 0 Comment

By Kaewmala Note: Readers unfamiliar with Thailand’s bare breast painting scandal may benefit from reading two previous articles here and here first. Is female toplessness a human rights issue? Ordinary people likely won’t think of bare breasts and human rights together but Thai authorities may make you rethink it. Here’s how. A member of Thailand’s...

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Is topless painting ‘an act of violence against the public’ in Thailand?

By Saksith Saiyasombut & Siam Voices Sat, Jun 23, 2012 1:54PM UTC 0 Comment

A contestant in Thailand's Got Talent show painted on canvas with her bare breasts earlier this month. She said ordinary painting would be interesting. Her performance has sparked an outrage and quick interventions from Thai authorities.

By Kaewmala It’s been almost a week since the topless painting scandal broke but the fuss still keeps dragging on, and on – a bit surprising given the normally short attention span of both the media and the public. While many in the Thai public are by now quite fatigued by the latest bare breast...

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Thailand’s topless talent show shock: Are some breasts more equal than others?

By Saksith Saiyasombut & Siam Voices Tue, Jun 19, 2012 12:17AM UTC 0 Comment

That’s how a woman should pose covered up with sticky stuff on her skin.

By Kaewmala It’s bound to happen again – and again. That is, yet another scandal exposing tender feminine flesh and Thailand’s uneasy relationship with female breasts. Why, for all its peculiar mammophobia (the correct term is mastrophobia by the way), Thailand just can’t get enough of breasts, especially the bare kind. It’s an untreated national...

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On ’100% Thai manliness’ and the reality of LBGT in Thailand

By Saksith Saiyasombut & Siam Voices Thu, Jun 07, 2012 10:30AM UTC 0 Comment

By Saksith Saiyasombut On Wednesday, a rather confusing headline made the rounds when a Thai actor told that the country’s Ministry of Culture (or as we call it here “ThaiMiniCult”) ordered TV executives to ensure that “100 per cent male” actors should not play transgender roles on TV. Naturally, such a bold statement caused at...

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