Vietnamese Mail Order Bride living in Taiwan

A story of a Vietnamese women married to a Hakka family in Taiwan. The news is broadcast in Hakka dialect. The news emphasize the toughness of living on a foreign land and dealing with daily life without a common language and lifestyle.

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5/4/2007 TAIPEI (Reuters) - In Taiwan, some men choose brides from the comfort of their living rooms by watching a TV show that airs photographs and biographical details of Vietnamese women looking for husbands.

The women are willing to marry men sometimes decades older than themselves to exchange a life of poverty at home for relative affluence abroad. These couples often don't live happily ever after. Vietnam native Nguyen Chi, 28, was kicked out by the husband she married five years ago and now scrapes by working at an electronics factory in Taipei. Ten of her 20 Vietnamese colleagues have also been dumped by their Taiwan husbands.

"We've all got the same problem. We're divorced or our husbands don't want us, and some of us are raising kids," said Nguyen, speaking in Mandarin learned during five years in Taiwan.

"I figured it would be a lot better than Vietnam here, but I hadn't been before. It's not that easy to make money."

The story of women such as Nguyen has prompted Taiwan and Vietnam -- whose 75,000 nationals are the island's largest non-Chinese immigrant group -- to get tougher on cross-border marriages to stop fraud and illegal residency following break-ups.

Taiwan men looking for "mail-order brides" are partial to Vietnamese women who they consider to be particularly submissive, matchmakers say. Often left on the shelf by local women, these men are looking for wives willing to have babies and help their ageing parents, the matchmakers add.

Men often enlist friends and business contacts in their wife search. But the popularity of Vietnamese brides is so great that there is now a prime time television show that broadcasts photographs and biographical data of prospective wives.

Those who prefer a more personal approach use the services of about 300 marriage brokers operating in Taiwan who organise wife shopping trips to Vietnam at costs that range from $900 to $10,000 for stays up to one week.

Before leaving, the men can narrow down the field by flipping through photos of available young women.

http://www.chinatownconnection.com/taiwan-mail-order-bride.htm

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[babykevinxoxo]

@hazal3678 explaine that law to me. It only talks about mail order brides right? 2 Taiwan people can not get married If they are more than 10 yrs apart?

[babykevinxoxo]

I hope they get rid of that law soon. So does that mean 2 people from Taiwan can not get married If she is more than 10 yrs younger even If she is 18?

[babykevinxoxo]

@ttiiyy taiwan made a stupid law that you can only marry a Mail order bride 10 yrs younger than you. If she is 18. It is legal How dumb. If he is not beating her it's no ones business.

[hazal3678]

i am looking for a vietnamese wife

[deepgalaxy3000]

Vietnam goverment has been turn down the Viet people, especially these poor women. What's a shame for the VC.

[zero00tolerance]

@MrFakegods i can tell you

[MrFakegods]

Tell me people.

How do i go about getting one of these fine young gals.???

;]

[ttiiyy]

@Traces1000 Fair enough.  Let's not argue any more then. Take care.

[Traces1000]

@ttiiyy yeah it is true too. Our countries are too influenced by Confucianism which made us prefer boy over girl which is causing the effects of more men over women right now. I know it's happening in japan, taiwan and china and it will happen in vietnam also and it will cause a great decline in future population. We viet never blamed taiwanese or korean for this, it must be the trolls that is causing the stir because this is something that's our fault and it's our own problem to worry about.

[ttiiyy]

@Traces1000 As a Taiwanese, I disagree with you on this. I HATE gold diggers, but sometimes some people are just so poor that they desperately want to improve their own lives.