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| Namwan, Ning |
The Criminal Court in Bangkok last week found socialite Namwan and her mother Ampaipan defamed Ning after a row at a city restaurant a couple of years ago. It sentenced her to 18 months in jail, suspended for two years, and fined her 75,000 baht.
Namwan and Mrs Ampaipan claimed in interviews that Ning and her sister Nan attacked Namwan at Harvey restaurant, in Thong Lor Soi 9 in Wattana district, on Sept 20, 2013.
Namwan, who published pictures of herself on social media with eye injuries, said Nan struck her in the face with a mobile phone. Nan denied it, and insisted Namwan hit her first.
Ning, who said the claims damaged her reputation, sued Namwan and her mum for defamation.
The court decided that while Namwan was the injured party, she should have sought redress solely by laying a complaint with police, rather than attempting to harm Ning’s reputation through the media.
Speaking outside the court, Namwan said she would exercise her right to appeal. Ning, who sent a lawyer to represent her, has yet to comment.
The court victory has bittersweet undertones for Ning, after her husband, Jin Tumwattana, offered a public apology earlier that year for having an affair with Namwan.
Namwan, the Bangkok-educated daughter of a Chiang Mai hotel and pub owner, was visiting the US in March, 2013 when news of her liaison with Jin broke in the media.
Namwan’s internet-savvy mother inadvertently identified her daughter as Jin’s fling when she published on Instagram an intimate online exchange between the pair.
After Jin went before the media to apologise, Ning said she forgave him, but tensions remained between the two women, with Ning taking potshots at Namwan through the media, and the two sides ultimately coming to blows at the restaurant.-
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Treechada “Poy” Marnyaporn, a famous person of the second gender, is experimenting with looking like a man again.
Poy said she dressed as a man for a recent modelling show, after
netizens enthused over a handful of women celebrities who tried out the
tomboy look. “I told my stylist I wanted to model as a man, as it’s all
the rage at the moment. I want people to think: ‘Who is that
good-looking guy?’
“I think I look handsome, but I wasn’t sure how others would feel. The feedback on social media has been great,” she said.
Poy, who has a growing following in the region, said she is treated as a superstar in Hong Kong.
She is signed to a company which looks after her overseas appearances. Poy is also assigned a bodyguard when in Hong Kong, though denies reports she charges an eight-figure sum for her advertising and modelling work.
Poy’s reputation as a person of the second gender also extends to Japan, where she is inspiring young people who want to change their sex to persevere with their efforts, despite the barriers they encounter there.
The Manager/ASTV newspaper last week carried the story of a young Japanese woman of the second gender, Satsuki, who grew up as a boy but wanted to change her sex. She found it difficult to get the work done in conservative Japan.
“I started taking female hormone drugs from the age of 16, and asked doctors in Japan repeatedly to let me have sex change surgery. However, I kept encountering obstacles,” said Satsuki, now a social media star in her home country.
“Japan has few doctors who specialise in this area, and sex change services are hard to find. Faced with these problems, many youngsters simply give up hope.”
Rather than abandon her quest, Satsuki, who had heard about Thai star Poy’s success in changing her sex, visited Bangkok to have the work done instead.
“In Thailand, I found many hospitals willing to offer the service. Doctors gave me a range of options, and guaranteed my feelings would not change after surgery,” she said, referring to her sexual attraction to men.
The story said male admirers who visit Satsuki’s blog praise her new looks, and the sex-change skills of Thai doctors.-
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“I think I look handsome, but I wasn’t sure how others would feel. The feedback on social media has been great,” she said.
Poy, who has a growing following in the region, said she is treated as a superstar in Hong Kong.
She is signed to a company which looks after her overseas appearances. Poy is also assigned a bodyguard when in Hong Kong, though denies reports she charges an eight-figure sum for her advertising and modelling work.
Poy’s reputation as a person of the second gender also extends to Japan, where she is inspiring young people who want to change their sex to persevere with their efforts, despite the barriers they encounter there.
The Manager/ASTV newspaper last week carried the story of a young Japanese woman of the second gender, Satsuki, who grew up as a boy but wanted to change her sex. She found it difficult to get the work done in conservative Japan.
“I started taking female hormone drugs from the age of 16, and asked doctors in Japan repeatedly to let me have sex change surgery. However, I kept encountering obstacles,” said Satsuki, now a social media star in her home country.
“Japan has few doctors who specialise in this area, and sex change services are hard to find. Faced with these problems, many youngsters simply give up hope.”
Rather than abandon her quest, Satsuki, who had heard about Thai star Poy’s success in changing her sex, visited Bangkok to have the work done instead.
“In Thailand, I found many hospitals willing to offer the service. Doctors gave me a range of options, and guaranteed my feelings would not change after surgery,” she said, referring to her sexual attraction to men.
The story said male admirers who visit Satsuki’s blog praise her new looks, and the sex-change skills of Thai doctors.-
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Former model Chalomjit “Looktarn” Junkate says she is likely to abandon plans to make a baby artificially with her former farang husband, as he is asking too much for his sperm.
Looktarn said she and Adam ended their two-year marriage a couple of weeks ago when she discovered he was seeing someone else.
The two have been in email contact since, after Adam brazenly published a picture on Facebook of his new love, a woman from Hungary.
Looktarn and Adam are partners in a city gym, and had planned to start a family together with Adam donating his sperm to help her get pregnant by artificial insemination, or “Gift”.
They are now attempting to unwind their business interests, though Looktarn says it is tough going.
“We went into business together, including a gym where I put up the money and he put in the grunt. Adam has asked me for a share of the profits. He also wants me to sell his motorbike which I bought him as a birthday present. He says if I am not prepared to sell it and send him the proceeds, I should forego using his sperm to make a baby,” she said.
The bike is worth about a million baht. “His sperm isn’t worth that much though, as the artificial insemination course, which we had almost finished, costs 700,000-800,000 baht,” she said.
“At first we decided we would carry on with the Gift programme, even though we are breaking up. But after he published pictures of his new girlfriend I am now having second thoughts, and may not send him any money from our business interests either,” she told reporters.
“He was unfaithful to me, and now he wants to rub my nose in it.
“I told him it was unnecessary for him to break news of his new girlfriend to that extent, but he wasn’t interested. No doubt she wanted me to see her.”
Looktarn, who said she could change her mind about non-payment if Adam resorts to legal action, said the problems started five months ago when the pair took a trip to Hungary.
“We argued and I came home early. He stayed on, claiming he wanted to spend time with family.
"In fact, he had met someone else,” she said.
“Adam would return to Thailand, only to go back to Hungary shortly after. He was also making a film over there.
“I asked him if he was seeing someone else, but he denied it. But I was suspicious as the phone bills kept going up,” she said.
Looktarn denied Adam was gay, but admitted the pair had trouble making love. “His new girlfriend looks like a man.
He likes things on the strange side,” she said.
Former model Chalomjit “Looktarn” Junkate says she is likely to abandon plans to make a baby artificially with her former farang husband, as he is asking too much for his sperm.
Looktarn said she and Adam ended their two-year marriage a couple of weeks ago when she discovered he was seeing someone else.
The two have been in email contact since, after Adam brazenly published a picture on Facebook of his new love, a woman from Hungary.
Looktarn and Adam are partners in a city gym, and had planned to start a family together with Adam donating his sperm to help her get pregnant by artificial insemination, or “Gift”.
They are now attempting to unwind their business interests, though Looktarn says it is tough going.
“We went into business together, including a gym where I put up the money and he put in the grunt. Adam has asked me for a share of the profits. He also wants me to sell his motorbike which I bought him as a birthday present. He says if I am not prepared to sell it and send him the proceeds, I should forego using his sperm to make a baby,” she said.
The bike is worth about a million baht. “His sperm isn’t worth that much though, as the artificial insemination course, which we had almost finished, costs 700,000-800,000 baht,” she said.
“At first we decided we would carry on with the Gift programme, even though we are breaking up. But after he published pictures of his new girlfriend I am now having second thoughts, and may not send him any money from our business interests either,” she told reporters.
“He was unfaithful to me, and now he wants to rub my nose in it.
“I told him it was unnecessary for him to break news of his new girlfriend to that extent, but he wasn’t interested. No doubt she wanted me to see her.”
Looktarn, who said she could change her mind about non-payment if Adam resorts to legal action, said the problems started five months ago when the pair took a trip to Hungary.
“We argued and I came home early. He stayed on, claiming he wanted to spend time with family.
"In fact, he had met someone else,” she said.
“Adam would return to Thailand, only to go back to Hungary shortly after. He was also making a film over there.
“I asked him if he was seeing someone else, but he denied it. But I was suspicious as the phone bills kept going up,” she said.
Looktarn denied Adam was gay, but admitted the pair had trouble making love. “His new girlfriend looks like a man.
He likes things on the strange side,” she said.
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