HOT on the heels of a giant Chinese-language billboard ad selling passport and citizenship of some countries being removed from Bangkok’s Huai Khwang area, another big billboard ad, also in Chinese language, was put up in Prachinburi province offering jobs in Thailand to foreign workers, Naewna newspaper said today (July 23).
This second Chinese-language billboard ad, put up at Rojana Industrial Estate (Prachin Buri), offers jobs for foreign workers from Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam in Thailand, with News Chonburi-Rayong Online highlighting this development on its Facebook page.
However soon after news about this billboard spread, officials came and removed it.
This jobs for foreigners billboard attracted a lot of comments from Thai netizens with one saying if this continues soon there will not be any jobs for Thais as they are focussing on foreigners while another person said there are a lot of such billboards in Rayong can’t the authorities see them.
A third person said China now dominates the country wherever you go, you only see Chinese people walking around while lots of Thais are jobless and a fourth said there is no need for Thais to make a living.
Meanwhile Immigration Police questioned a Chinese woman about the first Chinese-language billboard that was displayed at Huai Kwang intersection offering to sell passport of different countries, without stating the currency, with Indonesian travel document going for 30,000 each, Vanuatu for 70,000, Cambodian for 100,000 and Turkey for 150,000, PPTV HD 36 said.
The woman, only identified as Ms. Nasu, was summoned for questioning from her condo in the same Bangkok district.
She told police that a company in Hong Kong had got in touch with her through Chinese and Line apps with payment of 150,000 baht offered for monthly rent of the space where the billboard was posted and 60,000 baht to get it made.
Her fee was fixed at US$500 per billboard or around 17,000 baht but she did not reveal the name of the Hong Kong company that had hired her.
Initially police have filed a charge of working in Thailand without a permit against her.
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Top: The second Chinese-language billboard that was put up in Prachinburi today, July 23, 2024.
Insert: The first Chinese-language billboard offering to sell passport of some countries displayed at Huai Kwang intersection. Both photos: Naewna
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