SEOUL (AFP) – South Korean prosecutors said Monday they have charged a well-known belly dancer with forging an undergraduate degree to get a job teaching the skill at university.

Ahn Yoo-Jin will face trial for allegedly forging a graduation certificate from a university in Sydney, Australia. She used it to get a job as a part-time lecturer in belly dancing at Kwangju Women’s University in 2006 but has now been sacked from the post, Yonhap news agency reported.

Ahn, also known as Xena Ahn, is the head of the Korea Belly Dance Association. She established the Belly Korea Academy in 1995 and hosted several televised belly dance lectures.

South Korea’s fake degree scandal has spread far and wide since it erupted in early July, when prosecutors investigated Dongkuk University professor Shin Jeong-Ah for fabricating a Yale doctorate.

A probe followed into the academic backgrounds of thousands of professors and civil servants.

In recent months dozens of figures from the cultural, entertainment and religious worlds have either confessed to faking their academic records or were found out.

BANGKOK, Thailand – Thailand’s military coup leaders may be losing their sense of humor. Five days after instructing soldiers to keep smiling, the ruling council decided Wednesday that there is a limit to how much fun soldiers should have.

They ruled that sexy dancers were forbidden near tanks and tourists were no longer permitted to handle weapons when posing for photographs with troops still deployed in Bangkok.

The military toppled Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in a bloodless coup Sept. 19. As soon as the danger of violence subsided the troops mingled freely with residents and foreigners and their tanks became an instant tourist attraction. Hundreds had photos snapped of themselves posing with the soldiers.

At first the ruling generals turned a blind eye when a troupe of go-go dancers with naked midriffs and sexy camouflaged pants performed in front of the tanks to be followed the next day by dancers in traditional attire.

But on Wednesday, Deputy Supreme Commander Gen. Boonsang Niempradit said the go-go dancing was “not appropriate.”

“We have to maintain the seriousness of the coup,” said Lt. Gen. Palangoon Klaharn, a military spokesman. “The police should ensure that provocative performances are kept at a distance from soldiers while they are on duty.”