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Teething troubles for Chinese tourists in Thailand

By Denis Gray
Published April 15, 2014 8:24am ET
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Teething troubles for Chinese tourists in Thailand
Advance for Thailand Challenging Chinese, in this photo taken March 30, 2014, Chinese tourists pose for photograph at the main entrance to Chiang Mai university in Chiang Mai province, northern Thailand. The bucolic, once laidback, campus of one of Thailand’s top universities seems to be under a security clampdown these days. Not against a terrorist threat, but Chinese tourists, thousands of them, who have clambered aboard student buses, eaten in cafeterias, sneaked into classes to attend lectures and even pitched a tent by a picturesque lake. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong) | Apichart Weerawong

CHIANG MAI, Thailand (AP) — The bucolic, once laid-back campus of one of Thailand’s top universities is under a security clampdown. Not against a terrorist threat, but against Chinese tourists.

Thousands have clambered aboard student buses at Chiang Mai University, made a mess in cafeterias and sneaked into classes to attend lectures. Someone even pitched a tent by a picturesque lake. The reason: “Lost in Thailand,” a 2012 slapstick comedy partly shot on campus that is China’s highest-grossing homegrown movie ever.

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