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| Feb 15, 2021
“I speak directly. I use the words pussy and dick I just blurt it out,” Chitlada “Kui” Promlumpuk declares.
Known among friends as Thailand’s answer to Samantha Jones, the sex-positive protagonist in HBO’s “Sex and the City,” Kui was thrust into the spotlight last year when the hugely popular media platform Echo reached out to her to host a sex toy review video. The response was unprecedented. It became Echo’s “Video of the Year,” racking up 8.3 million views, 21,000 likes, 3,500 shares, and over 2,000 comments the overwhelming majority of which have been positive.
This is despite the fact that sex toys are classed as “obscene objects,” their trade and distribution punishable with up to three years in prison under Thai law.
(Jan. 15, 2021) This week, 80 years ago, units of the French Navy achieved a victory over the Royal Thai Navy during the brief war between the two countries.
That war erupted on Jan. 5, 1941 when the Royal Thai Bruapha and Isan Armies launched an offensive against the French colonies of Laos and Cambodia.
The reason was because France, in 1904, had forced Siam to transfer land along the Mekong River to Laos, and in 1907 had forced Siam to transfer three provinces to Cambodia.
This occurred during the reign of King Rama V, also known as Chulalongkorn. These areas had been a part of the Kingdom of Siam for the previous century. The name of the country was changed to Thailand in 1939.