#Thailand

  • And for their next trick: Thailand brings us vaginal whitening cream

    Technically speaking, being fair skinned, at least historically had been not only acceptable but desirable  In the middle-ages, darker skinned people were deemed to be of the working class, outdoors-men  that acquired their tan by working in the fields, crops and with farm animals. The higher classes, doctors, scientists and perhaps even politicians,...
  • “Liking” something in Thailand could get you arrested

    Thailand has brought its infamous lèse-majesté law up-to-date, by expanding its scope to cover the “liking” of status updates or groups on Facebook. In Thailand a few years back, partying it up at a bar in Bangkok, my friend quickly corrected me when I handed a bill to the...