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

[ukrules]

There is a simple solution to this problem - don't come to Thailand with all your friends and family and money / hotel bookings.

 

Get married in some other country that appreciates your business and don't forget to tell all your friends about how badly you were treated by the Thais.

[Jazz5555]

5 hours ago, stevenl said:

What is your point?

Chinese normally get a free pass in Thailand! Which I am sure you know!! With your passive agressive question. 

Thats the point 

[klauskunkel]

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Seven foreigners arrested over illegal pre-wedding photo shoots

meanwhile, in the same country, a teacher who confessed to raping his 12 year old student may face strict disciplinary action from his brotherhood...

[phuketrichard]

2 hours ago, Crash999 said:

Last trip to Phuket in the afternoon there was a wedding photo shoot going on in front of us on the beach. About an hour of various poses and some amusing pics of the bride trying to jump into the air. 

 

Finally they left and we thought we had some peace and quiet. About an hour later the same photographer was back with another couple for some sunset pics. 

 

Not sure if it’s the same outfit but my guess is they’ve been the source of complaints until the police finally took action.

 

 

this has been gong on for over a year<  when they cleared all the illegal chairs,massage places on Kamala beach end of last high season, i asked one of the army guys ( 3 stars, spoke good English) why the wedding photographers were working everyday?

he said  MONEY

[ChipButty]

Last year we had a Chinese family stay with us, unknown to us she was a famous Chinese singer and she was asking to maybe come back and do a photo shoot for her latest album cover, I never knew to tell her if she brought over her own photographers they needed a W/P, Ill know next time

[TonyClifton]

5 hours ago, LuukKoeyKorat said:

Why not call them Chinese rather than foreigners?

You wouldn't call them foreigners in China.

[TonyClifton]

How does Immigration know they are getting paid?

[ChipButty]

1 minute ago, TonyClifton said:

How does Immigration know they are getting paid?

Paid or not it dont matter

[stevenl]

1 hour ago, Cranky said:

Foreigners (falangs) should be a term strictly reserved for whitey-round-eye-big-noses. The rest are illegal Asian aliens that are guilty of all the crime and stealing all the low-paid jobs from the hard-working Thais. Or drug dealers from the dark continent of course.

Foreigner and farang are not the same.

Chinese are foreigners in Thailand.

Edited January 10, 2019 by stevenl

[Burma Bill]

"Shoot" them!!!

[BigC]

They been doing this for ages.

 

At least employ a few thais to help and get work permits 

 

They are just taking the piss

 

Probably paid for the wedding in China 

 

Hence zero dollar tourists

 

Throw the book at them 

[Fairynuff]

5 hours ago, KittenKong said:

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

 

You’re wrong. In this example they are Chinese nationals therefore they are foreign. If they were Thai-Chinese then they wouldn’t be foreigners 

[stevenl]

35 minutes ago, Jazz5555 said:

Chinese normally get a free pass in Thailand! Which I am sure you know!! With your passive agressive question. 

Thats the point 

Your first and second point are nonsense.

 

[BigC]

36 minutes ago, ukrules said:

There is a simple solution to this problem - don't come to Thailand with all your friends and family and money / hotel bookings.

 

Get married in some other country that appreciates your business and don't forget to tell all your friends about how badly you were treated by the Thais.

Eh wacth your mouth.

 

You can get married in Thailand these people knew they were braking the law

 

They were using Thailand to make profit without putting anything back in

 

Basically stealing 

 

There are plenty of legal weddings here 

 

Just need to go to a reliable agency 

[TonyClifton]

10 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

Paid or not it dont matter

That makes no sense.  Will Immigration arrest ever Chinese with a camera?  Add the Japanese and you can now overflow all the prisons in the country.  

[TonyClifton]

4 minutes ago, BigC said:

Hence zero dollar tourists

Hotels.

Food.

Batteries.

Airfares if a Thai Carrier.

Hookers, touts, tuk tuks, taxis, gem scams, 

 

How can you say they are zero Dollar tourists unless you meant they were zero Baht tourists?

 

[TonyClifton]

43 minutes ago, klauskunkel said:

meanwhile, in the same country, a teacher who confessed to raping his 12 year old student may face strict disciplinary action from his brotherhood...

Was there a camera involved?

[Gene1960]

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

True. Last month a Russian photographer and her boyfriend were sent back home. A local Thai agency reported her as soon as she went to Boat lagoon.


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[seancbk]

6 hours ago, KittenKong said:

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

They are not Thai, they are Chinese therefore Foreigners.  If they were Thai Chinese with Thai passports they would not be foreigners.

 

[The Alien]

"Why not call them Chinese rather than foreigners?"

 

I think Thai Visa wanted the readers to know "pre-wedding photographer job" is illegal for foreigners without proper work permit.

[Constantinos]

5 hours ago, wendyfromoz said:

what? you cant use your own photographer in Thailand?

Photographer is one of the professions not allowed for non Thais!

[Constantinos]

4 minutes ago, The Alien said:

"Why not call them Chinese rather than foreigners?"

 

I think Thai Visa wanted the readers to know "pre-wedding photographer job" is illegal for foreigners without proper work permit.

A foreigner can have a photography business in Thailand! But a Thai photographer has to be hired to take the photos, not the foreigner! It's in the list of the non allowed professions!

Edited January 10, 2019 by Constantinos

[ostyan]

Is the big Boss, the police morder is still on large?

[TonyClifton]

6 minutes ago, ostyan said:

Is the big Boss, the police morder is still on large?

Someone help me.  My Google Translate just told me F off and won't open again.

[dave moir]

6 hours ago, Jimi007 said:

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

I'm frightened to wipe my arse when I go to the toilet in case I'm accused of working!

[natway09]

If they are getting paid & taking photos in Thailand  then they are breaking the law .

[KittenKong]

59 minutes ago, Fairynuff said:

You’re wrong. In this example they are Chinese nationals therefore they are foreign. If they were Thai-Chinese then they wouldn’t be foreigners 

But this is why the article used the word foreigner and not the word Chinese, as I pointed out.

[NightSky]

19 minutes ago, dave moir said:

I'm frightened to wipe my arse when I go to the toilet in case I'm accused of working!

thats funny...

 

After 15 years in Thailand I visited my home country last year and I did a bit of 'work' out of a family members garage and i remember at the time I looked down the driveway thinking I hope no one will spot me doing this...

 

..but then of course I thought what the f***!, Im in my home country I can do anything I like!

 

Im a free man again, a first class citizen!

 

After many years the 'system' can brainwash you. Frightening eh!

Edited January 10, 2019 by NightSky

[rexall]

57 minutes ago, TonyClifton said:

That makes no sense.  Will Immigration arrest ever Chinese with a camera?  Add the Japanese and you can now overflow all the prisons in the country.  

I think you inadvertently get to the root problem. When you (the gov) have a lot of overly-broad laws that are difficult to enforce, you can hold back and only enforce them selectively when you are pissed at someone or when it is politically expedient for one reason or another. 

[Number 6]

While I respect the rights of Thailand to protect such jobs. If the answer is - have the wedding and shoot in China. What has been gained?

 

Perhaps in need of Chinese speaking photographers