Vietnam fines TikTokker US$300 for video suggesting Cambodia’s Angkor Wat is in Thailand

On Wednesday, the Vietnamese government charged Quoc Anh with providing “false information” and “insulting the reputation of agencies and organisations, honour and dignity of individuals,” per Lao Dong. He was fined 7.5 million Vietnamese dong (US$300), per the statement.

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“Right now, Quoc Anh has too many emotions in his heart that cannot be described in a few lines of text,” Quoc Anh wrote in Vietnamese in a Facebook post on Wednesday, adding that he was “safe” after meeting with authorities.

In the same post, he included a photo of himself outside Vietnam’s Department of Information and Communication in the capital Ho Chi Minh City. Quoc Anh did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.

Quoc Anh, who has over 250,000 followers on Facebook and over 700,000 followers on TikTok, frequently shares posts of his travels and photoshoots abroad.

Phil Robertson, the deputy Asia director for Human Rights Watch, told the Japanese newspaper Nikkei that the incident was “ridiculous.”

“No one really believes that Siem Reap belongs to Thailand,” Robertson said. “So the appropriate step would have been to laugh at this social influencer’s ignorance rather than resort to criminal penalties,” he added.

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It’s not the first time authorities in Southeast Asia have charged people over videos posted on social media platforms.