http://www.itv.com/news/Entertainment832279.html Aguilera causes Thai sex row
15.17PM BST, 17 Oct 2002
One of pop diva Christina Aguilera's latest music videos is causing a sex row in Thailand.
They are fuming about a Thai-language billboard in the backdrop of the "Dirrty" video that alludes to the country's sex industry.
Saharat Wannachomphu, marketing director for BMG Thailand, the local distributors of Aguilera's new album, said the company had decided not to air the video on local television.
In the video, the scantily clad 22-year-old pop star dances in a boxing ring next to a wall with posters in Thai that read "Thailand's sex tourism" and "Young underage girls."
Thai officials have expressed their dismay with the video, which was aired repeatedly by the Nation's cable television station on its news programs reporting the controversy.
The Nation newspaper quoted Preecha Kantiya, acting director for the government's Commission on Contemporary Arts Office, as saying local and foreign businessmen are too profit-oriented to present a genuine image of Thailand.
Instead, they preferred to use Thailand's seedier side to serve their business goals, he said.
"We at the company agreed that we should not think of business only," BMG's Saharat told a Thai newspaper. "We have to think about our country as well."
He said BMG Thailand had informed its parent company in the US that the video had upset Thais.
Thailand's Culture Ministry and Foreign Ministry will take further action if the video
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