Thai transgender actress Poyd Treechada weds businessman in traditional ceremony

Poyd – who won the Miss Tiffany and Miss International Queen pageants in 2004 – married Oak Bhavagha Hongyok at Phuket’s Baan Ar-Jor. - POYD TREECHADA/INSTAGRAM

BANGKOK (The Nation/Asia News Network): Actress, model and beauty queen Poyd Treechada, 36, married a businessman from an elite Phuket family on Wednesday (March 1).

The ceremony followed the traditional Peranakan style, which originated with the wave of Chinese immigrants to the region six centuries ago.