Seven foreigners arrested over illegal pre-wedding photo shoots in Phuket

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Seven arrested over illegal pre-wedding photo shoots in Phuket

By Kritsada Mueanhawong

 

 

Seven foreigners have been charged over illegally working as pre-wedding photographers and assistants in Phuket yesterday.

 

The Phuket Immigration Office Chief Col Kathatorn Kumthieg ordered officers to inspect Kathu Temple and Kata Noi Beach, popular locations for foreigner pre-wedding photo shoots.

 

The Phuket Immigration Office reports that all staff in the pre-wedding photo shooting team were foreigners who only held tourist visas. They have been conducting work contracted in China.

 

Full story: https://thethaiger.com/news/phuket/seven-arrested-over-illegal-pre-wedding-photo-shoots-in-phuket

 

-- © Copyright The Thaiger 2019-01-10

[LuukKoeyKorat 284]

Why not call them Chinese rather than foreigners?

[janclaes47 4,299]

1 minute ago, LuukKoeyKorat said:

Why not call them Chinese rather than foreigners?

 

Something like, foreigners from China?

[stevenl 29,366]

3 minutes ago, LuukKoeyKorat said:

Why not call them Chinese rather than foreigners?

What is your point?

[phuketrichard 4,063]

There at LEAST 3-4 ( some days up to 8 or more) Chinese wedding photographers working DAILY on Kamala beach and around Kamala town

 

[anterian 2,875]

So based on this if an infirm foreigner visits Thailand with his private nurse, on tourist visas, that nurse would be breaking the law. 

[KittenKong 15,881]

16 minutes ago, LuukKoeyKorat said:

Why not call them Chinese rather than foreigners?

Because they could be Chinese and not foreign. Plus the crime is working while being foreign, not working while being Chinese.

[LuukKoeyKorat 284]

17 minutes ago, stevenl said:

What is your point?

I'm thinking its not to upset the sensitivities of the Chinese tourist, when quite clearly it is a Chinese wedding group?

[moe666 5,540]

They should check out Chiang Mai lots of them around Thapae gate

[Jimi007 1,653]

So based on this if an infirm foreigner visits Thailand with his private nurse, on tourist visas, that nurse would be breaking the law. 

No one can work on a tourist visa or retirement visa. And a work permit is required for most everything, including volunteer work.

[Bluespunk 52,905]

22 minutes ago, KittenKong said:

Because they could be Chinese and not foreign. Plus the crime is working while being foreign, not working while being Chinese.

Chinese are foreign in Thailand

[KittenKong 15,881]

2 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

Chinese are foreign in Thailand

No, because Chinese is a racial type as well as a nationality.

 

[stevenl 29,366]

34 minutes ago, KittenKong said:

Because they could be Chinese and not foreign. Plus the crime is working while being foreign, not working while being Chinese.

Naw, a paper really won't take that into account. It is because they were foreigners working.

[Bluespunk 52,905]

9 minutes ago, KittenKong said:

No, because Chinese is a racial type as well as a nationality.

 

I'm not sure about that, but in this case the people were Chinese, which is a nationality composed of at least 56 ethnic groups, and are therefore foreigners when in Thailand, a completely different nationality.

[Somtamnication 23,563]

Hey, after the Phuket deaths last year, let's upset the Chinese more by ruining WEDDING photo shoots. 

What a joke!

 

The problem here is that the couples are ALWAYS walking from far away as there is no parking close to the entrance that NON paying hotel guests have to use. They are seen by the tuk tuks, taxis and everyone else. These guys with the cameras got called on by these people.