Chinese top visa holder summoned and fined over distorted claims about Bangkok’s notorious Nana

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Tourist police on Thursday night in the Nana area of Bangkok interacting with happy and smiling foreign tourists, including many women, who felt safe and secure in the famous, although somewhat notorious nightlife district, which is considered very safe and well policed. (Inset top left) Chinese social media influencer Zi Yu Wang from her video posted on Tuesday the 5th of December, which presented a distorted view of Nana.

Chinese social media influencer, Zi Yu Wang, who entered Thailand on an exclusive Thai Privilege visa, faced possible deportation after being summoned over a Tik Tok video that distorted the facts about Bangkok’s vibrant Soi Nana nightlife area. In the end, Immigration Bureau officers charged and fined her for breaching a Royal decree on labour by carrying on a business in Thailand without a licence or work permit. It came after authorities cracked down on her alleged defamation, stirring debate on the balance between personal freedom of expression and protecting the country’s image.

A Chinese social media influencer who came to Thailand to do a hatchet job on the kingdom’s foreign tourism industry, particularly Bangkok’s Nana nightlife district, has found herself summoned, charged, fined and warned off by Immigration Bureau police who informed her she could be facing potential deportation for breaching the kingdom’s strict labour laws.

 

In the last 48 hours, smiling tourist police have been seen mingling with happy tourists, many of them grinning and cheerful Western women in the city’s somewhat notorious Nana nightlife area rebuffing distorted claims made by 28-year-old Ms Zi Yu Wang, a successful Tik Tok influencer, who entered Thailand on an exclusive and very expensive Thai Privilege long term visa.

 

In what is being seen as a draconian move, Thai authorities moved this week to summon, charge and possibly blacklist the Chinese social media influencer on Tik Tok, Ms Zi Yu Wang, who arrived in the country on November 2nd last using the exclusive ‘Thai Privilege’ long term visa and was in the country legally.

 

by Joseph O' Connor

 

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Chinese Woman Facing Deportation and Blacklisting Following Outrage over Viral Video at Soi Nana in Bangkok
By Adam Judd

 

 

Bangkok – A Chinese woman faces legal action after the Royal Thai Immigration found that she was selling online products without a work permit following a Livestream that outraged netizens in Soi Nana in Bangkok.

The Royal Thai Immigration revealed to a press conference on Friday (December 8th) that they had fully questioned a woman they identified only as Ms. Wang, a Chinese national. She had entered Thailand via a Thai Privilege Card and stayed at a luxury residence. She admitted to Immigration that she had live streamed a controversial clip at Soi Nana in Bangkok. However, she claimed she did not mean to damage Thailand. She just wanted to warn women where they should be aware of when travelling alone, according to her.

 

The controversial clip showed the Chinese woman standing in what some netizens said was a provocative outfit in the middle of Soi Nana, a popular adult nightlife entertainment district in Bangkok, and claiming that 99 percent of people visiting the area were bad people and lambasting and insulting foreign men who approached her or were seen on camera in the area, said Thai Immigration.

 

She also claimed in the clip, without proof, that Soi Nana was dangerous for women. The clip went viral, angering many Thais, and leading to her being interviewed and detained, which is when police found she was also selling products through livestreaming.

 

Full story: THE PATTAYA NEWS 2023-12-09

 

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[Scouse123]

Well, it's not the best place for single women and female tourists to go for a night out, that is for sure.

 

It is primarily geared toward males and male adult entertainment.

[DudleySquat]

To think that I was about to write a letter to the editor of the B*****Post, what should I do? Should I now be wary if someone from the Brown Boys doesn't like what I write?

[harleyclarkey]

Good news for a change from the illustrious BIB. 

Can we mark her out as the first radical, raving feminist from China that we know of? 

What a pathetic creature....she had to embellish her stupid video with " I was approached by a foreign man" 

Hope he didn't ask.."how much love". Now that would be a cracker!! 

[monty1412]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Chinese Woman Facing Deportation and Blacklisting Following Outrage over Viral Video at Soi Nana in Bangkok
By Adam Judd

 

 

Bangkok – A Chinese woman faces legal action after the Royal Thai Immigration found that she was selling online products without a work permit following a Livestream that outraged netizens in Soi Nana in Bangkok.

The Royal Thai Immigration revealed to a press conference on Friday (December 8th) that they had fully questioned a woman they identified only as Ms. Wang, a Chinese national. She had entered Thailand via a Thai Privilege Card and stayed at a luxury residence. She admitted to Immigration that she had live streamed a controversial clip at Soi Nana in Bangkok. However, she claimed she did not mean to damage Thailand. She just wanted to warn women where they should be aware of when travelling alone, according to her.

 

The controversial clip showed the Chinese woman standing in what some netizens said was a provocative outfit in the middle of Soi Nana, a popular adult nightlife entertainment district in Bangkok, and claiming that 99 percent of people visiting the area were bad people and lambasting and insulting foreign men who approached her or were seen on camera in the area, said Thai Immigration.

 

She also claimed in the clip, without proof, that Soi Nana was dangerous for women. The clip went viral, angering many Thais, and leading to her being interviewed and detained, which is when police found she was also selling products through livestreaming.

 

Full story: THE PATTAYA NEWS 2023-12-09

 

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Oh well played immigration..... you have taken a one off situation and now given it a life.... who advises these people....

[DudleySquat]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

police found she was also selling products through livestreaming.

Stun guns? Pepper spray? 

 

Or Ginko Baloba pills. Imagine, what if she was selling Viagra and Cialis? 

[captnhoy]

Deporting her will certainly boost tourism. Good thinking

[asf6]

A foreign woman approached by a foreign man. Shocking. How dare they. 

[FarangJon]

Jail her please. Thanks. 

[Tom H]

Influencers, what type of species are they?

 

Never worked anything in their life presumably.

 

 

[heybruce]

There is a comparatively respectively Nana, and the sleazy part on the other side of Sukhumvit.  Guess which side the tourist police picture was taken at.

[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Chinese social media influencer, Zi Yu Wang, who entered Thailand on an exclusive Thai Privilege visa, faced possible deportation after being summoned over a Tik Tok video that distorted the facts about Bangkok’s vibrant Soi Nana nightlife area. In the end, Immigration Bureau officers charged and fined her for breaching a Royal decree on labour by carrying on a business in Thailand without a licence or work permit. It came after authorities cracked down on her alleged defamation, stirring debate on the balance between personal freedom of expression and protecting the country’s image.

RTP and immigration keep shooting themselves in the foot.

This blog on Nana would have just blown over in a couple of days, not they've blown it wide open.

It will be all over China faster than Covid was.

[hotchilli]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

The controversial clip showed the Chinese woman standing in what some netizens said was a provocative outfit in the middle of Soi Nana,

Just trying to blend in with the locals?

[hotchilli]

10 minutes ago, Tom H said:

Influencers, what type of species are they?

 

Never worked anything in their life presumably.

 

 

Millennials mostly with no work ethic.

[mot]

9 minutes ago, Scouse123 said:

Well, it's not the best place for single women and female tourists to go for a night out, that is for sure.

 

It is primarily geared toward males and male adult entertainment.

 Why is Nana not the best place for single women and female tourists? Maybe because they would be ignored by the male assistance!! Do you have any exemple of a female tourist having  troubles in Nana? Of course not! The area is safe, I don't particularly like thais authorities but the chinese lady is lying. 

   And Bangkok and Nana or Patpobg is ten thousand time safer than any place in France, the country where I'm living. I'm not joking. Paris is dangerous for both women and men and in any area. Even small towns and villages are dangerous today. 

[hotchilli]

18 minutes ago, DudleySquat said:

Stun guns? Pepper spray? 

 

Or Ginko Baloba pills. Imagine, what if she was selling Viagra and Cialis? 

E vaping gear or the unthinkable... ladies toys.

[Homburg]

Soi Nana is not safe for women OR for men.  As in the whole of the rest of Thailand the biggest danger to women, and men, in Soi Nana is the traffic.  You take your life in your hands every time you cross the street anywhere in LOS.  That said, Soi Nana is rather less dangerous than the "pedestrian" crossing on Sukhumvit between Soi Nana and Soi 3, which has lights for the pedestrians, but none for vehicles on the westbound carriageway!

[spermwhale]

Why no link to the TikTok clip? 

[SirHonkersTheFirst]

Ms Zi Yu Wang - send this rubbish back to her country. She can deal with the sex industry there. 

 

Uggh. Filth.

[Nicholas Paul KNIGHT]

Welcome to the world of immediate internet. the Thasi Government cannot control every aspect of peoples lives and well doner as well, by highlighting the problem this video has caused . many will now travel to this SOI to make sure the government is telling the truth.

Sure it is not an ideal place to take lady, but then most LADIES would not go there unless take there by their men. . !!!!!!!!!!! 

[10baht]

42 minutes ago, captnhoy said:

Deporting her will certainly boost tourism. Good thinking

YES < YES < YES > go for it. One less Chinese may mean many less.

[cowellandrew]

Looks like the rich tourists are as annoying as back packers!

😁😁

[Hockeybik]

Maybe someone should tell these muppets about the Streisand effect? 

[Andycoops]

If she doesn't like it she should slither back to her own country where of course she is not permitted to do anything remotely like this.

Chinese s c u m

[Dcheech]

1 hour ago, captnhoy said:

Deporting her will certainly boost tourism. Good thinking

 

That is what is so freaking brain dead about this. Thailands first response is the heavy handed vindictive approach so dear to the Thai PuYai mentality. Only confirming to her fans and many more potential Chinese tourists, Thailand is an unsafe place to visit. That's a winner.

 

 

[Sydebolle]

The bottle neck is always on top of the bottle. If Thailand is serious (and it is not), then clean out interior ministry. In a normal state, the police and army is there to protect the state, police internally and army externally. Both follow the marching orders of the government and its interior minister, the government follows the marching orders of its "shareholders" - the voters. 

Not so in Thailand where the army and the police tell the rest of the semi-divines what to do and what the going rates are. Once in a while the overcomplicated bureaucracy, so utterly enjoyed and kept alive by the two "protective" forces, burps up as Khon Thai to this day does not know, how other cultures, races or religions work. 

Throw this influencer out of Thailand for good - good riddance as they say. But then start cleaning from top, if you are serious. And as we all know, that nobody is serious about it (at least for the time being), it will be business as usual and nobody talks about this absolute irrelevant incident in a short while. Nana is not known for its prayer halls, Pattaya is not known for its second-hand-bookshops. The latter suggests to legalize prostitution, keep the bureaucracy to an absolute minimum and get the government to take out its ever-nosey face out of the private market industry as much as possible and rather concentrate on what is more relevant. On the subject of Nana, all this kitchen waste of all those street kitchens ending up in the gutters at the beginning of Soi 4, the placing of all those kitchens forcing pedestrian onto the street etc. could be a possible start. 

In closing, nothing will happen as the sweetheart holds Chinese citizenship and the present array of government goons must avoid anything possible to upset the red brethren in the North. 

In short "next please" - your call! 

[CartagenaWarlock]

37 minutes ago, Tom H said:

Influencers, what type of species are they?

Some make more money in a year than your entire family earns in their lifetime. No wonder people had to travel 10,000 miles for a living in a foreign land, like refugees, possibly using a "wify" visa. 

[JimTripper]

1 hour ago, Scouse123 said:

Well, it's not the best place for single women and female tourists to go for a night out, that is for sure.

 

It is primarily geared toward males and male adult entertainment.

Not if you're lesbian.

[PETERTHEEATER]

1 hour ago, Tom H said:

Influencers, what type of species are they?

 

Never worked anything in their life presumably.

 

 

They troll another section of the human race known as 'guillible'.