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Taiwanese tourist arrested for wearing skimpy string bikini to a beach in the Philippines

2019-10-14 434 Dailymotion

A tourist was arrested after wearing a skimpy string bikini to a beach in the Philippines.<br /><br />Lin Tzu Ting, 26, was on holiday with her boyfriend, both from Taiwan, when she wore the revealing garment on the popular Boracay island.<br /><br />Staff at the holidaymaker's hotel warned her last Wednesday (October 9) to change her clothes when they saw her going to the beach - but she ignored them.<br /><br />The young woman wore the same white bikini the next day, walking along the sand hand-in-hand with her partner. <br /><br />But shocked locals called the police who arrived and arrested Lin. They made her wear shorts and a t-shirt before she was bundled into a police truck and taken to the station.<br /><br />Lin told the police her bikini was a ''form of art'' and ''personal expression'' while her boyfriend said it was ''normal in our country'' and that the clothing was a way for his partner to ''to express herself with confidence''.<br /><br />Officers did not accept the defense and fined Lin 2,500 Philippine Peso (£38.30) which she was told she had to pay before she could leave the island as planned on October 11.<br /><br />Natividad Bernardino, head of the Boracay Inter-Agency Management and Rehabilitation Group (BIAMRG), said: ''Foreign tourists should observe proper decorum as a form of respect for Philippine culture and tradition.<br /><br />''We have our own cultural values as Filipinos and Asians. They should be able to respect that. There is no dress code but it is just common sense.<br /><br />''They were told not to by the hotel management, but they said it was a form of art.''<br /><br />Major Jess Baylon, police chief of the island's Malay station, said the tourist was fined PHP2,500 for ''display of erotic and lewd picture''.<br /><br />Jess said the bikini was ''literally just a piece of string''.<br /><br />She added: ''Her boyfriend said 'It’s quite normal for us in our country and that was her way to express herself with confidence'. <br /><br />''But their customs and traditions are not the same in our country. They have to respect our culture and tradition, and our proper decorum.<br /><br />The Taiwanese couple are understood to have left Boracay Island last Friday (October 11) afternoon. <br /><br />Police have now urged hotel and resort owners in the area to tell their guests about clothing and behaviour.

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