In the run-up to International Women's Day on March 8, the Bangkok Post wrote in a recent editorial about the continuing serious lack of gender equality in Thailand.

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A British tourist who allegedly threw his Thai wife off a balcony in Rayong last month and then fled during the police investigation has been apprehended, the immigration chief said.

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A 64-year-old begging woman in Pattaya has been detained by police near the Sukhumvit Road Pla Muk intersection. She shared that she was forcibly coerced by her alcoholic husband because he needed money for his addiction.

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Pattaya police on Wednesday arrested a 49-year-old American who assaulted and seriously injured his Thai wife with a knife.

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Research by the Women and Men Progressive Movement Foundation (WMP) among 1.608 Thai women and men aged 17 to 40 shows that many women are abused, cheated and raped.

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Are the prejudices and clichés about Thai manes correct? Whoever reads this survey will say 'yes' because 70 percent of Thai men have multiple secret sexual relationships and 45 percent are guilty of domestic violence.

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There has been a commotion on social media about a video of a drunk Thai man seriously abusing his wife. The images are therefore nauseating.

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Domestic violence is a private matter in Thailand, you don't hang your dirty laundry outside, the woman must have made it. This is what Bangkok Post columnist Sanitsuda Ekachai writes about the abuse of an actress by her husband.

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About a hundred activists, with painted blue eyes, drew attention to the abuse of women and children in Bangkok yesterday. The recent murder of Olympic champion Jakkrit at the behest of his mother-in-law exposes society's lax attitude towards domestic violence.

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Thailand is at the forefront of the increase in domestic violence in Asian countries. With more than 20.000 cases being processed by law enforcement last year, the Thai man is remarkably aggressive in his own home.

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When misery draws closer…

By Gringo
Posted in Living in Thailand
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March 1 2013

The far from my bed misery in the world and in Thailand suddenly took on another dimension when Gringo was confronted up close with human suffering.

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