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Thai film poster featuring Cambodia’s lamduan flower sparks social media dispute


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  • The poster of Thai film Love Destiny showed the stars surrounded by lamduan flowers, which Cambodians said was a misappropriation of their national flower
  • As mudslinging broke out on social media, the Thai production firm calmed matters by sharing a new poster with Hong Kong’s bauhinia

 

A Thai production company was forced to redesign its film poster featuring Cambodia’s national flower after the promotional material drew flak from Cambodian netizens.

 

Love Destiny, a Thai historical romance film, stars Ranee “Bella” Campen and Tanawat “Pope” Wattanapution. They were both featured surrounded by a backdrop of lamduan flowers, with a banner saying “lamduan flowers represent sustainable love”.

 

But the poster, uploaded on Facebook by Thai company GDH 559 Co last week, soon sparked a social media war of words between Thai and Cambodian netizens, who accused the former of appropriating their national flower.

 

read more https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/lifestyle-culture/article/3186613/thai-film-poster-featuring-cambodias-lamduan-flower

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