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March 22nd, 2007 by Andrew Walker · 7 Comments

Natenapa

This is Natenapa Prasongsansuk (who is not known as Nong Nat), a Miss Thailand Universe entrant who won the “Miss Popular Vote” on Wednesday night. In the current political climate this could be a career ending move! Surely “Miss Appointed by the Privy Council” would be a much more appropriate honour.

Tags: Coup · Thailand

7 responses so far ↓

  • 1 observer // Mar 22, 2007 at 9:33 pm

    How about Miss Good Intentions?

  • 2 anon // Mar 23, 2007 at 3:28 am

    How come she’s not wearing yellow?

  • 3 Sawarin // Mar 23, 2007 at 8:24 am

    ‘Miss kun-na-tham’ will beat them all. Kunnatham is currently in vogue.

  • 4 thai but not so proud // Mar 24, 2007 at 5:42 am

    Miss beauty contest should be banned. So does the massage parlor, bars in Patpong, Nana, Cowboy. And we should bomb pattaya and start over..am sad that so many thai women have to use beauty to advance themsleves

    Thai women can do better than just being pretty and married rich men…

  • 5 Sawarin // Mar 24, 2007 at 12:01 pm

    thai but not so proud:

    I think beauty contests ought to be bombed, not banned. But getting rid of massage parlours; bars; Patpong; etc. won’t have any impact on women’s liberation.

    Btw, you might not like prostitution but there is ‘life’ in it.

  • 6 Johpa // Mar 24, 2007 at 3:31 pm

    Crikey! They all look like luuk khreungs!

  • 7 Misogonist // Mar 24, 2007 at 5:56 pm

    I wouldn’t mind a bit of privy counseling with her

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