In the present edition of Globally Times, new Chinese English-language newsprint confides in us “Vietnam’s post-purchase bride company is booming
” Which, without a doubt, is absolutely nothing brand new. But the story, and also the controversy related international , reminded me personally away from my time in the world.
Back to 2007, whenever i was working to keep the health and appeal out of migrant brides from Vietnam, an acquaintance sent a photograph he’d taken while going to Ho Chi Minh City’s Area 5. It had been of a poster advertising a marriage broker’s qualities, and its own bulleted text message understand: “She actually is a good virgin, she will feel your own in only three months, fixed price, if she escapes in the first 12 months, certain to feel changed.”