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Authorities relent on tourists’ school uni craze

Chinese visitors mean no harm and are actually promoting the country, officials say

Chinese visitors model Thai student uniforms at the Sriphan shop in Bangkok. Store management posted the picture on its Facebook page last month and thanked the tourists for buying student uniforms there.

A tempest in a teapot over Chinese tourists wearing Thai school uniforms has ended with authorities conceding that the visitors mean no harm and are probably doing the country a favour by promoting it.

The saga began with the emergence online of pictures of young Chinese women modelling Thai high-school uniforms. It took only a day for an alert lawyer to discover that a law most people had never heard of might have…

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