Haven for scams: Hit movies further sour Chinese view of South-east Asia

Chinese netizens said No More Bets and Lost In The Stars have hardened their impression of South-east Asia as a region of rampant scams. - GOLDEN VILLAGE

BEIJING (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): In this summer’s blockbuster hit No More Bets, the lead character, played by one of China’s top celebrities Lay Zhang, ends up being forced to work for a crime syndicate in a fictitious South-east Asian country after accepting a fake job offer in Singapore.

In suspense-thriller Lost in The Stars, a woman who travelled with her husband to (again) an imagined country in South-east Asia ends up - spoiler alert - being killed.