Ex-beauty queen Panadda talks about rape law and online conflict with MP Pareena

Panadda won Miss Thailand in 2000 and has worked in academic and political circles as well as in the entertainment industry.
She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Assumption University, before earning two master’s degrees in international business administration and business philosophy from Wollongong University and South Australia University, respectively. She also graduated with a doctorate in business administration from Rangsit University in 2015.
One social issue she has devoted herself to is about women.

 
“Rape is of course illegal, but I am pushing for stalking to also be illegal, as it is the origin of sexual assaults,” she said.
Panadda has always voiced her opinion in increasing the punishment for rape. Furthermore, she has taken part in volunteer activities for more than ten years. 
“I have cooked for people suffering, with half of my body under flood water,” she explained, adding that as she is famous, she needs to give something back to society.
On politics, Panadda mentioned she was an economics expert in Thaksin Shinawatra’s government, and also an adviser to the deputy commerce minister in Abhisit Vejjajiva’s government. Now, during the Prayut Chan-o-cha government, she is a committee adviser on the law dealing with rape, she said.
“Being on a committee studying the rape law, we advocate education and public health, instructing women to protect themselves from any risk. We are trying to modernise the law to serve not only women but LGBTQ people,” Panadda said.

The former Miss Thailand said she could have become a politician but decided to be an academic and also an entertainer. 
“I will continue working for society and will work until my last day – a pledge I have made to myself,” she said seriously.
Panadda at last has said she was quite confused on some of the matters she debated online with Pareena. 
Panadda said she has now stopped arguing with the MP, saying that rapists will not be executed – something the MP had called for. As for Pareena reportedly attacking her as just an advisor, the former beauty queen said she was “not okay with the insult”.