Thawinan Khongkran is a Thai

Thai people

The Thai people, or Siamese, are the main ethnic group of Thailand and are part of the larger Tai ethnolinguistic peoples found in Thailand and adjacent countries in Southeast Asia as well as southern China. Their language is the Thai language, which is classified as part of the Kradai family of...

 celebrity. She was Miss University of Asia 1986 and Miss Asia-Pacific 1987 and remains famous in Thailand

Thailand

Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...

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She holds a Masters degree. Her thesis title was The role of the media in creating the image of Miss Thailand from 1964 to 1988.

She currently works as Head of Public Relations for the Royal Thai Army-run Channel 5 Television. She came to prominence in English-speaking media for her public relations for the Army in the 2006 Thailand coup d'état

2006 Thailand coup d'état

The 2006 Thai coup d'état took place on Tuesday 19 September 2006, when the Royal Thai Army staged a coup d'état against the elected caretaker government of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra...

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