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Women are leaving Asia's countryside for jobs in the cities. Dowries are becoming more costly. As a result, rural Asian
men are turning to Vietnam as a source of low cost brides. $3000 as dowry for his daughter's marriage to a foreign
man. Both daughter and father accepted the offer without having met the groom. The viet nam bride was constantly worried
that she could not find someone to marry. Some 18,000 single vietnamese girls who have legally married Taiwanese
men in recent years. Most settled in Taiwan. She is also among the two percent of these women who have come back to Vietnam
to divorce their husbands. Potential grooms usually pay between $10,000 to $15,000 for vietnamese women, including airfare,
visa and immigration paperwork. Most of the work, however, is done by viet nam dating services in Ho Chi Minh City. We currently
deal with vietnamese dating agencies. These matchmakers have agents in the countryside around Saigon, where poor families
are willing to part with their daughters for as little as 600US. Because Vietnamese law prohibits marriage recruiters, matchmaking
agencies often pretend they are travel agents or immigration advisors. Changing internal migration patterns in Taiwan where
viet nam girls are leaving the countryside for cities to find work and increases in dowry prices have led Taiwanese men
to look elsewhere for potential brides. Chinese brides used to be the most popular choice, but complicated Taiwanese immigration
laws have made viet nam women a more practical option. Vietnamese brides seem to be the preferred second choice. A Vietnamese
model are popular with Taiwanese men because they look a lot like the Chinese women at home. Chinese men usually prefer light
skinned women to darker skinned viet nam models. In Thailand or Burma they have to choose from a small number of
ethnic Chinese women.The tightly controlled Vietnamese press usually reserves its venom for corrupting foreigners, and Taiwanese
men who marry vietnamese bride are a favorite topic.
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