Today marks International Women's Day, and while there are many good causes to celebrate, the situation remains far from perfect for many embattled housewives and other women and girls in Thailand.
Many women have experienced a great leap forward in their careers in recent years -- and it's fair to say women here have gained a greater foothold in society overall -- yet a huge number still fall prey to domestic violence meted out by family members, often their husbands or boyfriends.
In fact, not a single week seems to go by without some kind of gruesome news. On Monday, we heard reports that a man called Pisuitsiri had stabbed his girlfriend and set her body on fire before dumping the body at a wastewater treatment facility in the Bang Pu Industrial Estate in Samut Prakan province. Back in 2007, the same man made national headlines after threatening, in public, to slit his throat after his former girlfriend refused to reconcile with him.
