| In 2003, there were 20,653 such couples and 1,018 divorces. The number of international marriages rose 43 percent over this period, while the number of divorces almost quadrupled.
Last year alone, Korean men wed 14,450 Chinese, 9,812 Vietnamese, 1,131 Filipino, 559 Mongolian and 380 Cambodian brides.
These Asian women came to a strange land trusting their husbands-to-be and hoping to become Koreans and start their families. But because of a Korean law that does not give citizenships to forei... | I couldn’t resist asking.
“So baby, do you come here often?”
It was Saturday night after all. But we weren’t trading glances in a bar, we were at the swank Miller Room in Symphony Hall.
The 20-something looked at this 54-year-old like I had just crash-landed my spacecraft from Mars. Then she turned on her heels and bolted without giving her name - and definitely without sharing her phone number, which my editor had ordered me to get. Sorry, boss.
We were at the Bo... | Deputy Home Affairs Minister Datuk Tan Chai Ho said immigration officials were tracking down other such cases of "spouse visa" holders working illegally here.He believed the figure was just the tip of the iceberg, with many more breaking the law.The women, all of whom were detained in Penang, had been issued a visa that allowed them to stay here for a year after marrying Malaysians.It is learnt that some women from Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia and China were involved in scam marriages to work he... |
