[my life] You've got mail.→You've got wife.
target="_blank">Taiwan men seek mail-order brides from
Vietnam
By Ralph Jennings Reuters
TAIPEI (Reuters) - In Taiwan, some men "#0000FF">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. "#0000FF">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.
....what a man want a wife for since they just need a
servant to clean the house and do the housework
I happened to see this article in Yahoo UK and it would not
surprised me that mail-order bride had been news at all.
'Coz I remembered a movie that a man order a wife from
Russia. It takes two to make a quarrel. One looks for excitement and leisure and the other searches for peaceful life.
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