<div>More than sixty thousand Thais have signed a petition opposing the Culture Ministry's attempt to ban a tourist ad that contains characters from the Ramayana, part of the national literary heritage.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>On 22 September 2016, Jatuporn Rattanawaraha, a Thai national artist in the dramatic arts -- khon -- category, said that the music video titled “Thais tour in Thailand: Let’s have fun!” was inappropriate and would destroy Thailand’s national culture,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.bangkokbiznews.com/news/detail/719195">reported</a> Bangkok Business.</div> <div>&nbsp; </div>

<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0b43c8fe-6c7c-bb72-37a9-df8cfe65773c">It was the artist Tran Luong and a red scarf. It does not take more to make the Vietnamese police raid the German cultural center in Hanoi. An interrupted installation in a space that is actually protected by diplomacy. I saw Tran Luong’s performance in full, uninterrupted, in Berlin, far away from the country he was from my interpretation commenting on by throwing a red scarf around, playing cheerfully with until the scarf tied his hands behind the back and he was unable to move.</span></p>