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Thailand’s ‘pretties’ and the beauty to die for

By Saksith Saiyasombut & Siam Voices Wed, Oct 03, 2012 6:31PM UTC 0 Comment

By Kaewmala Athitiya Eiamyai, 33, a product presenter, was pronounced dead at 10:35 a.m. on October 2, 2012 in the intensive care unit at a Bangkok hospital. Ms. Athitiya, nicknamed ‘Kratae’ (Rabbit), fell into a coma after a botched filler injection in the buttocks two weeks earlier. Sad and needless though her death was, Ms....

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Thailand’s skin whitening craze: How far will it go?

By Saksith Saiyasombut & Siam Voices Thu, Sep 27, 2012 11:13PM UTC 0 Comment

By Kaewmala The skin whitening craze has reached women’s pubic areas in Thailand. Officially. This new development has been well recorded by international press. Kate Hodal of The Guardian reported on 23 September 2012: A new product said to make women’s intimate areas ‘fairer within four weeks’ has revived the beauty debate in colour-conscious Thailand,...

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Are Thais really the most adulterous couples in the world?

By Saksith Saiyasombut & Siam Voices Wed, Aug 29, 2012 11:44PM UTC 0 Comment $Source: Asian Offbeat D:\Od_2012\Blog 2012\Offbeat http:\www.asianoffbeat.com\default.asp?display=1732$

By Kaewmala That’s what Durex, the world’s No. 1 condom maker, would have you believe. True or not, statistics has been thrown at the media like a juicy piece of bone. As if on cue the media jumped with all four, grabbed it midair and ran with it. Here’s that piece of bone. The Bangkok...

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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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