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Last month a 22-year-old Chinese actor, Wang Xing, was rescued from a scam centre on the border after being lured to Thailand with an offer of work on a movie shoot.

"It feels like after this Wang Xing incident, there will be fewer people going to South East Asia, including Thailand," reads a popular Weibo post.

On Thursday, lines from a recent interview of his were trending on Weibo: "actor Wang Xing claims he could not eat much food in Myanmar and did not have time to use the toilet".

"We have no choice but to borrow the power of the internet to amplify our voices," Wang Xing's girlfriend wrote on the Chinese social media platform Weibo on 5 January.

"Impairment of coordination between the bladder muscle and the sphincter leads to various urinary tract dysfunctions and can significantly degrade a person's quality of life," says first author Xing Li, Advanced Institute for Brain and Intelligence, School of Physical Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, China.