Vietnamese women is consider the prettistin all of South East Asia isn't new but there a large growning concern that other foregn nationals that are taking advantage of Vietnam is a poor country. These girls by the thousand seeking a better life for them self and there family are picking instead marrying chinese nationals.
There has been more and more sad true and shockly sad story of Vietnamese Women Being Abused, Raped, tortured or force to turn into prositution. Alot of these women can't turn for help due to fear or language barrier in there host country. One story i can clearly remember is a certian chinese husband forcing his newly wed wife into sleeping with his own father. Stating that this 66 year old man would grown younger by having sex and raping a pretty 18 year old veitnamese girl.
I feel more sad for my country than digust and outrage at what happen. i'm Sad that the communist gov't keep its citizen so poor that they only see the only way for a better tomorrow is to find any route possible. These marriage between chinese men and tiawan men isn't out of love but out of need for the women to take better care of here family....
My only question is why did a guy "if found accused of the hiddious crime he did would only served ""seven, that is 7 years" in jail."
Read on if you can stomach it.. i will post a few artical i just found by google. I welcome open honest communication without Flamming. Its a problem not only in vietnam and China but the world over. Its just sad that the vietnamese government encourage these type of marriage......
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Vietnam bride: I was tortured
asiaone
Link---> http://www.lenduong.net/article.php3?id_article=8423
STARVED, PIERCED WITH NEEDLES, CUT WITH KNIFE
IT is a shocking tale of abuse.
The Taiwanese man allegedly pierced his Vietnamese bride’s fingers with needles and soaked her hands in salt water.
He also allegedly shot rubber bands at her eyelids and used a wooden pole and knife to hit and cut her back.
After less than a year of abuse, Liu Cheng-chi, 39, allegedly abandoned Ms Tuan Jih-ling, now 20, at the side of a road.
Ms Tuan was allegedly confined to the house and given one meal a day, reported Apple Daily Taiwan.
In a year, she shrank from a slim 40kg to just 20kg.
Liu apparently inflicted all this pain on his bride because he believed she had given him a sexually-transmitted disease (STD).
This tale of revenge was revealed in a Taiwanese court recently, as Liu and his ex-wife Lin Li-ju, 34, who allegedly helped him in the abuse, were put on trial.
They are charged with enslaving and abusing Ms Tuan, who has since recovered from her injuries.
It all began when Liu and Lin, who have a daughter together, were desperate for a son.
Lin apparently decided Liu should take another wife. The couple divorced and Liu went on a matchmaking trip to Vietnam, where he met Ms Tuan.
Upon his return to Taiwan, he felt unwell. A doctor told him that he had a bacterial infection but Liu reportedly suspected that Ms Tuan, who had been a hostess in a hotel previously, had given him an STD.
Ms Tuan moved to Taiwan in April 2002.
It was only then she realised that Liu and Lin were already divorced but were still living together with their daughter.
Just three months after she arrived, Liu and Lin reportedly started torturing Ms Tuan.
The torture came to an end only in February 2003, when Liu and Lin are said to have become worried that they might kill Ms Tuan with their abuse.
That was when they allegedly abandoned her at the side of a road.
Ms Tuan stumbled into a restaurant and begged for a meal.
A police report was made and she was sent to hospital.
Liu appeared in court wearing a monk’s robes and reciting Buddhist chants.
He claimed to be mentally ill.
However, after investigation, the authorities concluded that neither Liu nor Lim were mentally ill when they inflicted the torture.
If found guilty, they could be jailed for up to seven years.
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In IMHO see nothing good that come out of Vietnamese Women marrying chinese men either they from Tiawan or China... here another artical from a French press....
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Wife-selling rampant in Vietnam
HANOI - There are increasing concerns in Vietnam about the practice of wife-selling. Agents who sell young women to would-be husbands are operating quite openly in the country's largest city, Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon. A majority of purchasers are Taiwanese men who take their wives back home. Men looking for a Vietnamese wife can pay anything between $2,500 and $8,000.
Selection
Agents introduce the men to a range of women. Once the man has made his selection, the agent can provide paperwork to show that the couple are married. The women who put themselves up for sale in this way generally come from poor rural households and are hoping to get some money. In reality, however, they normally receive a small percentage of the cash paid to the agent. According to the Vietnamese press, there are at least 4,000 Vietnamese wives in Taiwan who have been purchased in this way.
Many unhappy
A few have managed to establish satisfactory relationships with their new husbands but many are unhappy and, in some cases, even sold into prostitution. The Vietnamese police say that since there is no law banning Vietnamese women from marrying foreigners, there is little they can do to stop the practice. They say that if the women do manage to get some money out of their new husbands they often send it back to their families in Vietnam. As a result, many of the families are reluctant to tell the police what has happened.
By Owen Bennett Jones - BBC News Service - March 13, 2001.
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Sold!
Vietnamese Wife for Chinese Man
Fifty-year-old Deng Wendong is persistent. Thirteen years after his first Vietnamese wife - whom he bought for about 300 yuan (1US$=8.3 yuan) from a fellow villager - left him and their daughter, he has got himself another bride from Vietnam.
The new bride is 27 and was brought here by her father's sister. Deng is a farmer; he earns a meagre living from fishing and occasional rock chipping in Ban'ai Village, about 20 kilometres from Dongxing, a border city with Vietnam in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
The picture of his ex-wife is still hangs on a wall of his home. "She was very capable (of doing housework and farming). But I was too poor, so she gave up after living with me for seven years."
Says Deng, "People would look down upon you if you don't have money or a wife. Having a Vietnamese bride is cheaper but will nevertheless earn you respect. At least you have a family." Tradition in the area demands that a bridegroom pay 8,000 to 10,000 yuan to the bride's parents as a betrothal gift.
Of the eight brothers of the Deng family, four have Vietnamese brides. His 32-year-old brother Deng Wenquan has a Vietnamese wife from Hanoi, for whom he paid about 400 yuan when he took a fancy to her at a villager's home. "She is nice and good at housework. My parents treat her well. Life is now a little better than the days without her," says Wenquan.
His wife Mai, four years younger than him, is a high-school graduate from a well-educated family. "If he were an old guy, I wouldn't have married him. I would try to report to the police," says the outspoken Vietnamese woman.
In 1999, Mai went back to Hanoi with her daughter to visit her parents, and she learned that they had reported the trafficker to the Vietnamese police and got him arrested. Her parents wanted her back in Vietnam. Says Mai, "I want to live with my parents. But I'm not sure I could marry a good man there. This man is good to me; he never beats me although sometimes we do quarrel." And she proudly shows photographs of her family in Vietnam and China.
Over 30 of the 1,500 Ban'ai villagers have bought Vietnamese women as wives, and this figure does not include men who cohabit with Vietnamese women. Marriage expense aside, there is much more to a Vietnamese bride compared to one who is Chinese.
Zhang Yuanfu, a 36-year-old butcher who first married a Vietnamese and now has a Chinese wife, tells the difference. "She was very considerate and hardworking. She would keep for me all the delicacies she cooked." He paid 500 yuan to the 'go-between'. However, she left him after four years, and took her son along. "We quarreled over my gambling, but she was better than the present one, who is very harsh, likes to pick fights and hits me when she catches me gambling."
Pei Xingfu - from Ban'ai village - was arrested by the police for drug trafficking; later he confessed to kidnapping a Vietnamese woman in broad daylight. According to him, about 30 to 40 per cent of his fellow villagers marry Vietnamese women. "Thanks to the opening up (of the country) and reform, villagers here are better off and therefore can afford to marry Chinese brides. I don't understand why they still want to wed Vietnamese women, even young men between 26 and 30," he says.
In the past few years, about seven men in the village have been sentenced for trafficking in Vietnamese women. Dongxing City shares 35.77 kilometres of the country's land boundary line and 42 kilometres of the coastal boundary with Vietnam. Since China normalized its diplomatic relations with Vietnam in 1989, border trade has boomed each year and border residents from Vietnam visit China easily and freely, as long as they return by the end of the day.
Further, several years of war in Vietnam resulted in a diminishing male population. This and the local tradition of marrying on either side of the border has given rise to trafficking of Vietnamese women in China. Statistics available thus far indicate all eight border towns and counties in Guangxi are affected by the influx of Vietnamese women.
Of the 8,002 Vietnamese women in Guangxi, 7,919 were married to local residents, but none of them had fulfilled the formalities required for legal marriage. A total of 9,745 children were born out of these marriages, but only 0.3 per cent were formally registered.
Although police officers are firm in cracking down on traffickers, and they try to repatriate victims, or those sold for prostitution and forced marriage, actual repatriation is a huge problem. "After we sent them home, these women returned to China. It's an embarrassing situation," says Qi Fuwei, chief of Dongxing City Public Security Bureau.
Legally speaking, the buyer of the trafficked woman should be held liable for violating the law. But in reality, except for those who buy several Vietnamese women and resell them, or buy for prostitution, few buyers have been so far punished. It is just too hard to destroy a de facto marriage of several years. Besides, most farmers don't even know that buying wives is a crime. And the fact that local officials turn a blind eye only adds to the problem.
For researchers, meanwhile, it is surprising that most Vietnamese wives appear quite contented with their families in China. "I feel puzzled - is this illegal migration or human trafficking? If they are willing to marry someone and money changes hands, this could be interpreted as fees paid to matchmakers. I guess the United Nations' working definition on trafficking does not apply here," says Liu Meng, Professor at the National Women's University of China.
Do Thi Huy refers to all her experiences of being kidnapped and later sheltered by Tang Guoqin as his wife, as the design of fate. Tran Hao, 48, abandoned her husband in Vietnam and came to live with a Chinese man. "I'm not afraid of being driven back. So long as Dongxing is open to Vietnam, I'll come back, no matter what."
However, the influx of sold Vietnamese brides in Guangxi and further into inner China might lead to social problems. According to Wei Xiaoning, these marriages - bigamy, in some cases - are not in line with China's Marriage Law, and therefore the law does not protect them.
"In the long run," warns Zheng Zizhen, Director of the Guangdong Provincial Institute of Sociology and Demography, "such migration is not only destructive to the rule of law, but also unnecessary to China with its existing population and employment pressure."
– Ma Guihua
December 8, 2002
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Thanh Nien News | Special report | Shattered dreams for Vietnamese girls marrying Taiwanese men
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Shattered dreams for Vietnamese girls marrying Taiwanese men
Doan Nhat Linh
Interracial marriages have been on the rise in Vietnam for the past few years as more and more Vietnamese women decide to tie the knot with foreigners, especially the Taiwanese.
The illusion of getting a better life has lured quite a few Vietnamese women, especially those from rural areas, to run the risks of marrying complete strangers without knowing that hidden dangers are awaiting them.
Within the first half of this year alone, there were as many as 5,689 Vietnamese women having Taiwanese men as their husbands, according to the latest statistics from the Taiwanese Office of Economics and Culture in Ho Chi Minh City (TOEC). “80.4 per cent of them are from rural areas.”
Many of these lightning-fast marriages inevitably ended up with divorces. Worse still, in the name of marriage, thousands of Vietnamese women have been trafficked into Taiwan for domestic servitude or forced prostitution. They are subjected to extreme physical and mental abuses.
“There are approximately 77,000 Vietnamese brides in Taipei,” said Mr. Ngo Kien Quoc, head of the TOEC. “As much as 10 per cent of them are vulnerable to abuse and torture.”
The shocking scandal in which a Vietnamese bride had a narrow escape from death at the brutal hands of her husband has recently generated heated debates in both Vietnam and Taiwan.
The tragic plight of Doan Nhat Linh
Two years ago, Ms. Linh got married to a Taiwanese man named Liu Cheng Chi, aged 39, without knowing that he married her just because of his wife’s failure to give birth to male heirs.
On arriving in Taipei, she was forced into domestic servitude during the day and was sexually abused at night.
4 months later, Chi and his wife, Lin Lee Zhu, began torturing Ms. Linh. They locked her up in an apartment, confiscated her passport and other documents, and forbid her to make contact with the outside world. What is more, they fed her and let her go to the bathroom just once a day.
When diagnosed with venereal disease because of his promiscuous behavior, Chi vented his rage on his long-suffering Vietnamese “wife”, subjecting her to inhumane tortures.
“Together with his wife, Chi tormented me by having my fingertips pierced with needles and them having them immersed in salt water,” recalled Ms. Linh. “He then brutally hit me with a heavy stick and lacerated my back with a knife.”
Unbearable tortures were inflicted on the poor girl for seven consecutive months until she couldn’t heave her ruined body one day in February 2003.
Chi and his wife decided to dispose of Ms. Linh. They squeezed her into the trunk of their car, took her to a landfill site, and dumped her there.
When they were away, Ms. Linh managed to drag herself to a nearby food stand and asked for help.
She was immediately ferried to hospital and was not released from there until a year later.
On June 9, 2004, Liu Cheng Chi and Lin Lee Zhu were taken to court on the charge of human rights violations. If convicted of this charge, they face up to seven years in prison, according to T’ai chung‘s Court.
Doan Nhat Linh is no exception
Mistreatment toward Vietnamese brides is quite common in Taiwan partly because their husbands are poor farmers, unschooled workers, or disabled and even mentally ill men.
“90.3 per cent of Taiwanese grooms are manual workers and farmers,” according to the TOEC
“Ten per cent of Vietnamese brides are victims of domestic disturbances,” said Mr. Peter Chen, a senior official of T’ai chung Police.
On June 23, the police uncovered a case of a Taiwanese man who tied his wife up, gagged her mouth with adhesive tape, and then sold her to a brothel for 60,000 Taiwan dollars.
These are just two of the numerous cases of Vietnamese bribes who are tyrannized or mistreated by their Taiwanese husbands being reported by the press. In reality, the scope of domestic violence and abuse is definitely higher than research indicates. Very often the victims of most instances of family violence fail to report them.
The root causes of family violence
Language and cultural barriers were cited as the root causes of most domestic disturbances, said Mr. Quoc.
A lasting marriage should not be viewed as only a tool for ensuring financial security or social reproduction, but rather it should be built on an understanding between spouses, said Taiwanese journalist Luong Ngoc Phuong. “Language plays an important role in achieving understanding between husband and wife.”
Another striking factor is concerned with building a relationship of trust and confidence between the two partners.
In most cases, Vietnamese young women, generally from the countryside, were lured with the prospect of marriage to a wealthy Taiwanese businessman, said Mr. Hong Tu Hien, director of a leading dating company in Taiwan. Therefore, they would feel disillusioned or even shocked when their “affluent” husbands turned out to be blue-collar employees or farmers.
On the other hand, some Vietnamese women took in their partners by asserting that they were virgins, but in fact they were married and already had children, remarked Mr. Hien.
The rights of Vietnamese brides
The majority of Vietnamese brides in Taiwan are unaware of the rights accorded to them.
According to Mr. Quoc, Vietnamese women make no effort to get to know their rights.
“During the interview prior to their departure, I often recommended them to learn by heart the emergency numbers listed in the pamphlets in Vietnamese,” Mr. Quoc told Thanh Nien. “However, most of them paid no attention to this.”
In addition, upon their arrival in Taiwan, they are not well informed of which organization or individual they should reach in case of family violence, highlighted Mr. Quoc.
When asked how the risks of family violence can be kept to a minimum, Mr. Quoc called on the Vietnamese authorities to legalize the operation of dating companies so that they can screen out “ineligible” Taiwanese grooms.
“With regard to Taiwan, we are pressing for the establishment of a television program for Vietnamese brides in Taiwan,” announced Mr. Quoc. “The program will help them stay abreast of latest news in Vietnam.”
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Man tortured Vietnamese wife for seven-month period
Thu Jun 10, 12:21 PM (The China Post)
The Taichung public prosecutors' office is seeking a seven-year prison sentence for a man who allegedly joined hands with his ex-wife to torture his Vietnamese spouse for seven months.
According to the indictment papers, the victim, identified as "Tuan," suffered from repeated beatings and starvation from July 2002 to February 2003.
Tuan's life was a living hell as her husband Liu Cheng-chi and his ex-wife Lin Li-ru employed an array of tortures on her. They tied her hands with duct tape, shot rubber bands at her eyelids when she closed her eyes, and scratched her back with a small knife.
The most horrifying torture the pair used was to pierce Tuan's fingers with needles and forced her to dip her wounded fingers in salt water.
Tuan's weight plummeted from 40 to 20 kilograms because she was only give one meal a day. And scars and bruises were visible on her bony back and feet when she was rescued.
Liu divorced his first wife Lin in January 2002 because she could not give birth to a boy, but both agreed that he should find a "concubine" in Vietnam to produce a heir. He visited Vietnam and wedded Tuan under the arrangement of a matchmaking agency.
However, Liu turned violent against Tuan after he developed an urinary tract infection and condemned his new wife as the cause of his disease. He even produced a tape accusing Tuan of committing "ten crimes," including fraud, adultery, assault, and demanded NT$3.6 million from her in compensation.
In February 2003, Liu drove the deteriorating Tuan to a power station in Lungchin Township, Taichung County and dumped her there. She was rescued and taken to a hospital by passers-by and the horrendous account of domestic violence was made public.
Liu is charged with enslavement, abandonment, assault and battery and will face a seven-year jail sentence if convicted. He denied the charges, alleging that Tuan inflicted the wounds herself.
Women's rights' advocates noted that Tuan's case reflects an alarming trend of domestic violence against foreign spouses, who are especially vulnerable due to language barriers and social isolations.
There is no official data on the abuse of foreign spouses but social workers say the majority of victims dare not seek intervention for fear of losing their children or being deported.
Liao Hsueh-chen, director of the Garden of Hope Foundation's Taipei Long-San Women's Service Center, urged the government to show more concern for female immigrants and offer more counseling and social awareness programs.
"Education is the key to improving the treatment of foreign spouses because their husbands and in-laws must learn to respect and care for these women instead of treating them as maids or child-bearing machines," she said.
Advocates said the harsh sentence imposed on Liu, if it stands, will return justice to the victim and hopefully serve as a deterrent to abusive husbands.
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