Its also known for something else. These cabaret dancers are all transgender. Born as men, now women. Being one of the leading countries for sex reassignment surgery, thailand has a reputation as a transgender paradise. In certain sectors of the workforce and not just entertainment, they have a high profile. Their social skills are especially favored at supermarkets and restaurants. But there are many occupations are discrimination against transgender people persists. One of them is in education. A teacher at a public elementary and secondary school, the school recently decided to dismiss her after she dressed as a woman in the classroom. A similar s story. Earnining a university educatio degree with excellentnt grades s not enough. Three years after graduation, she still makes a living as a tutor. But some in the Education Field are taking a stand against this kind of discrimination. A lecturer at thailands prestigious tamastat university. In 2015, she, then an assistant, took a promo
States balance of pressure and reopen but protests continue in several cities. Because that is the last. And game set and mismatches tennis stars put on a vets will show for charity. Now to may just Southeast Asian nations are taking tentative steps to lift coronavirus restrictions thailand and malaysia have spent weeks and locked down but at the start of a new working week malaysia is allowing the majority of businesses to reopen large gatherings hasta last allowed and schools and universities remain closed people have also been asked to continue social distancing while thailand is allowing restaurants salans and pet shops to reopen no new deaths had been reported there in days but all incoming flights have been banned until the end of the month well well hear from scott hides in bangkok shortly but 1st lets speak to florence who is she joins us from the capital quite alone for france malaysias easing restrictions talk us through what that means practically for people there and how th
Police crackdown on people violating a strict 3 week lockdown. That is only one warse that is necessary to think its a war against violence and the u. N. Secretary general tells a poor countries need immediate support as he launches an appeal for 2000000000. 00. The authorities in new york are trying to prevent a Public Health disaster in the biggest coronavirus hot spot in the u. S. There are now 30000 cases across new york state most of them in the city where the number of people in hospital with coated 19 rose to nearly 4000 when say its led to the construction of temporary hospitals and a morgue well president says hes working closely with leaders in new york sate and across the country were also as you know building numerous hospitals and medical centers. Throughout certain areas in new york its at the Convention Center the javits Convention Center. Were doing 4 hospitals and were doing throughout the state for medical centers theyre somewhat different i want you to know that i do
Appeals for 2000000000. 00. And 400 tons of freshly caught fish is said to be thrown away in sri lanka because of coronavirus the of. Us senators due to vote in the coming hours on a 2 trillion dollars package to fight coronavirus the monies for helping frontline medical workers and keeping the worlds biggest economy afloat the vote comes after republican senators flagged what they call drafting issues which had to be amended before the bill can ask macca my kind of has more from washington. So we have to go back we have to go back the stimulus bill remains stalled in the Senate President trump spent much of the daily Coronavirus Briefing extolling its many virtues its going to be in the form alone so the moneys going to come back he doubled down on his insistence that the shutdown could be ended soon in many parts of the country and angrily claimed that some of his opponents were using the crisis to harm his election chances later this year i think there are certain people that would
Public gatherings are banned find out next why senegal is edging closer to a full law down at the corona virus continues to spread. In other headlining stories the unprecedented drought thats making life difficult for millions of people in chile. As get going the numbers get more alarming by the day more than 300000 people around the world now the coronavirus with 13000 the epicenter its only reported nearly 800 on saturday alone more countries are ordering lockdowns such as india where more than a 1000000000 people have been asked to stay indoors a 14 hour nationwide curfews in place as confirmed cases near 300 australias Prime Minister is warning of tighter restrictions closing all beaches to end for. Social distancing some states and territories shutting their internal borders thailand is reporting its biggest daily increase with 188. 00 new cases taking the total to almost 600. 00 the capital bangkok is under a partial shutdown from sunday we have standing by for us in hong kong fo