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'Sold by my brother': the Mekong women pressed into marriage in China


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PHNOM PENH: Everyone did well from Nary's marriage to a Chinese man, except the young Cambodian bride herself, who returned home from the six-year ordeal destitute, humiliated and with little prospect of seeing her son again.

 

Her brother ran away with US$3,000 after cajoling the then 17-year-old to leave Cambodia to marry. Brokers split the remaining US$7,000 paid by her Chinese husband, who got himself a longed-for heir.

 

But her wedding to a stranger thousands of miles from home, in a language she could not understand, was ill-fated from the start.

 

read more https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/sold-by-brother-mekong-women-pressed-marriage-china-one-child-11020902

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