Cambodia: Cambodian-foreigner Marriages Suspended
News Headline 2008-04-13 11:49
PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA: Marriages between foreigners and Cambodians have
been banned amid concerns of a growing number of brokered marriages
involving poor, uneducated women.
You Ay, women's affairs secretary of state, said the government has
tem****arily suspended all paperworks for Cambodian women to marry
foreigners.
She said the ban, which was approved last week, would be lifted after
the government developed a legal framework to address mixed marriages.
Cambodia, Ay added, is working to strengthen the laws on marriage. A
re****t of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM)
highlighted the plight of an increasing number of Cambodian brides
migrating to South Korea arranged by brokers who make huge profits.
The re****ts said some 1,759 marriage visas were issued by South Korea
in 2007, up from just 72 in 2004. (Asia News Network/ AsiaNews)
MySinchew 2008.04.13
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