Thailand’s transsexual beauty pageant: my new AFP story

by Newley on May 18, 2009 · 0 comments

Here’s a story I wrote for AFP about a unique beauty pageant that took place in Pattaya on Friday night: “Tiaras at Thai transsexual beauty contest” (AFP/Yahoo News).

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