পুলওয়ামা, ১৫ ফেব্রুয়ারি : পুলওয়ামায় জঙ্গি হামলায় মৃতের সংখ্যা বেড়ে হল ৪৫। শ্রীনগরে ইন্টারনেট পরিষেবা বন্ধ রাখা হয়েছে। মৃত জওয়ানদের দেহ উদ্ধার করতে ভারতীয় বায়ুসেনার C-১৭ হিন্ডন থেকে শ্রীনগর যাচ্ছে।
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পুলওয়ামা, ১৫ ফেব্রুয়ারি : পুলওয়ামায় জঙ্গি হামলায় মৃতের সংখ্যা বেড়ে হল ৪৫। শ্রীনগরে ইন্টারনেট পরিষেবা বন্ধ রাখা হয়েছে। মৃত জওয়ানদের দেহ উদ্ধার করতে ভারতীয় বায়ুসেনার C-১৭ হিন্ডন থেকে শ্রীনগর যাচ্ছে।
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RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLY
SHOTLIST:
ASSOCIATED PRESS – AP CLIENTS ONLY
Bangkok – 13 February 2019
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Prime Ministerial candidate Pauline Ngarmpring with fellow party members and MP candidates, waving to people while campaigning in Bangkok
2. Various of Ngarmpring and colleagues walking along street
3. Ngarmpring talking to workers outside massage parlour
4. Mid of Ngarmpring listening
5. SOUNDBITE (Thai) Wassana Sorsawang, masseuse:
(on what type of help she would like to get)
"Welfare, mostly. Health. Because, also wholesome meals so we can be healthy."
6. Wide of group holding signs
7. Wide of Ngarnpring and colleague walking
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Pauline Ngarmpring, transgender candidate for prime minister:
"Even if I cannot achieve, or I cannot become Prime Minister, it is already fine because I am the first one who dare enough to announce to allow myself to tell the society that, 'Hey we can do it.' We are not saying we are better than male or female. We just want to say that we are equal."
PAULINE NGARMPRING – AP CLIENTS ONLY
Bangkok – 2008
9. STILL photo: Pauline when she was Pinit (selfie)
PAULINE NGARMPRING – AP CLIENTS ONLY
New York – 2006
10. STILL photo: Pauline when she was Pinit (selfie)
ASSOCIATED PRESS – AP CLIENTS ONLY
Bangkok – 14 February 2019
11. Wide of Ngarnpring walking into office
12. Various of Ngarnpring talking on phone
ASSOCIATED PRESS – AP CLIENTS ONLY
Bangkok – 13 February 2019
++NIGHT SHOTS++
13. Wide of Ngarnpring walking in the street while being interviewed
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Pauline Ngarmpring, transgender candidate for prime minister:
"Nowadays people say, 'Oh you are transgender? OK you want to become our prime minister? It's going to be funny. It's going to be a very strange story.' But I don't think that way. I think that no matter you – whoever you are, whatever you are – you have your value. And you love yourself and then you share to people."
15. Wide of group walking down road
16. Various of group talking with female sex workers on roadside
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Pauline Ngarmpring, transgender candidate for prime minister:
"Realistically, at this point of time, I will not be a prime minister. But it doesn't matter. I am ready to be prime minister but I just start working today. It will take some time and it is not going to be the end of the world after the next election. I am still working on it. But it doesn't have to be me. It can be the next generation."
18. Various of group walking down the street
STORYLINE:
As Pinit Ngarmpring, he was a CEO and sports promoter, well known in the world of Thai soccer.
Now, under her preferred new name of Pauline Ngarmpring, she's pursuing a bid to become the country's first transgender prime minister.
The 52-year-old is one of three candidates put forward by a political party for the post in next month's general election.
Ngarmpring says she wants her nomination to bring hope to the marginalised and to open up political space for future generations of LGBT people.
With over a month to go before the March 24 polling day, she campaigned this week in one of Bangkok's more infamous nightlife areas.
Many vulnerable or exploited people work in this twilight zone of go-go bars, cheap hotels and massage parlours. It's exactly the constituency the Mahachon party seeks to represent, and she's eager to hear their concerns.
"Our welfare, mostly," masseuse Wassana Sorsawang tells her, as she stands outside a shop in an alley off the street.
She complains that she and her colleagues often work double shifts, and it affects their health.
The Mahachon party is contesting some 200 seats in the 500-member House of Representatives.
About 20 of the candidates are openly LGBT. Pauline joined only last November. Now, as their second-ranked nominee for prime minister, she finds herself a political trailblazer, a unique symbol of the fight for equality.
It's fine, she said, even if she cannot achieve her goal of becoming prime minister "because I am the first one who dares enough to announce, to allow myself to tell the society that, 'Hey we can do it.'"
Until three years ago, Pauline was Pinit: a father of two, a reporter turned businessman who became well known by founding a soccer fan association that became influential in Thai sporting circles.
Since her gender transition she's made it her mission, she said, to educate society. Her new political role gives her the perfect platform to counter those who still view LGBT rights - and her candidacy - with scepticism.
The party hopes its human rights-based agenda will appeal in particular to Thailand's large LGBT and sex worker population. One policy is to legalise prostitution.
The result, Ngarmpring says, could be up to 10 lawmakers in Parliament, thanks to a new electoral system that allocates some of the seats through proportional representation.
But, even given the country's traditionally accepting view of sexual fluidity, she knows she is not destined to lead the country.
"It doesn't have to be me. It can be the next generation," she said.
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SHOTLIST:
ASSOCIATED PRESS – AP CLIENTS ONLY
Bangkok – 13 February 2019
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Prime Ministerial candidate Pauline Ngarmpring with fellow party members and MP candidates, waving to people while campaigning in Bangkok
2. Various of Ngarmpring and colleagues walking along street
3. Ngarmpring talking to workers outside massage parlour
4. Mid of Ngarmpring listening
5. SOUNDBITE (Thai) Wassana Sorsawang, masseuse:
(on what type of help she would like to get)
"Welfare, mostly. Health. Because, also wholesome meals so we can be healthy."
6. Wide of group holding signs
7. Wide of Ngarnpring and colleague walking
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Pauline Ngarmpring, transgender candidate for prime minister:
"Even if I cannot achieve, or I cannot become Prime Minister, it is already fine because I am the first one who dare enough to announce to allow myself to tell the society that, 'Hey we can do it.' We are not saying we are better than male or female. We just want to say that we are equal."
PAULINE NGARMPRING – AP CLIENTS ONLY
Bangkok – 2008
9. STILL photo: Pauline when she was Pinit (selfie)
PAULINE NGARMPRING – AP CLIENTS ONLY
New York – 2006
10. STILL photo: Pauline when she was Pinit (selfie)
ASSOCIATED PRESS – AP CLIENTS ONLY
Bangkok – 14 February 2019
11. Wide of Ngarnpring walking into office
12. Various of Ngarnpring talking on phone
ASSOCIATED PRESS – AP CLIENTS ONLY
Bangkok – 13 February 2019
++NIGHT SHOTS++
13. Wide of Ngarnpring walking in the street while being interviewed
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Pauline Ngarmpring, transgender candidate for prime minister:
"Nowadays people say, 'Oh you are transgender? OK you want to become our prime minister? It's going to be funny. It's going to be a very strange story.' But I don't think that way. I think that no matter you – whoever you are, whatever you are – you have your value. And you love yourself and then you share to people."
15. Wide of group walking down road
16. Various of group talking with female sex workers on roadside
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Pauline Ngarmpring, transgender candidate for prime minister:
"Realistically, at this point of time, I will not be a prime minister. But it doesn't matter. I am ready to be prime minister but I just start working today. It will take some time and it is not going to be the end of the world after the next election. I am still working on it. But it doesn't have to be me. It can be the next generation."
18. Various of group walking down the street
STORYLINE:
As Pinit Ngarmpring, he was a CEO and sports promoter, well known in the world of Thai soccer.
Now, under her preferred new name of Pauline Ngarmpring, she's pursuing a bid to become the country's first transgender prime minister.
The 52-year-old is one of three candidates put forward by a political party for the post in next month's general election.
Ngarmpring says she wants her nomination to bring hope to the marginalised and to open up political space for future generations of LGBT people.
With over a month to go before the March 24 polling day, she campaigned this week in one of Bangkok's more infamous nightlife areas.
Many vulnerable or exploited people work in this twilight zone of go-go bars, cheap hotels and massage parlours. It's exactly the constituency the Mahachon party seeks to represent, and she's eager to hear their concerns.
"Our welfare, mostly," masseuse Wassana Sorsawang tells her, as she stands outside a shop in an alley off the street.
She complains that she and her colleagues often work double shifts, and it affects their health.
The Mahachon party is contesting some 200 seats in the 500-member House of Representatives.
About 20 of the candidates are openly LGBT. Pauline joined only last November. Now, as their second-ranked nominee for prime minister, she finds herself a political trailblazer, a unique symbol of the fight for equality.
It's fine, she said, even if she cannot achieve her goal of becoming prime minister "because I am the first one who dares enough to announce, to allow myself to tell the society that, 'Hey we can do it.'"
Until three years ago, Pauline was Pinit: a father of two, a reporter turned businessman who became well known by founding a soccer fan association that became influential in Thai sporting circles.
Since her gender transition she's made it her mission, she said, to educate society. Her new political role gives her the perfect platform to counter those who still view LGBT rights - and her candidacy - with scepticism.
The party hopes its human rights-based agenda will appeal in particular to Thailand's large LGBT and sex worker population. One policy is to legalise prostitution.
The result, Ngarmpring says, could be up to 10 lawmakers in Parliament, thanks to a new electoral system that allocates some of the seats through proportional representation.
But, even given the country's traditionally accepting view of sexual fluidity, she knows she is not destined to lead the country.
"It doesn't have to be me. It can be the next generation," she said.
===========================================================
Clients are reminded:
(i) to check the terms of their licence agreements for use of content outside news programming and that further advice and assistance can be obtained from the AP Archive on: Tel +44 (0) 20 7482 7482 Email: info@aparchive.com
(ii) they should check with the applicable collecting society in their Territory regarding the clearance of any sound recording or performance included within the AP Television News service
(iii) they have editorial responsibility for the use of all and any content included within the AP Television News service and for libel, privacy, compliance and third party rights applicable to their Territory.
Last Updated : Feb 15, 2019, 12:17 PM IST
