Two dealers arrange marriage for a girl (center) allegedly from Southeast Asia in Poyang county Cheap Nike Presto , Jiangxi Province, in 2013. Photo: CFP Ding Aihua could not believe it: The local police said there was nothing they could do to help her find her missing daughter-in-law, little they could do to relieve her anguish, despite the mysterious fact that a dozen of her neighbors in Quzhou county, North China's Hebei Province, also lost their daughters-in-law overnight between November 20 and 21.
"[The 100,000 yuan ($16 Nike Presto Sale ,200)] was all we have and now it's all gone. My husband has gone mad," Ding told the Hebei-based news portal hebradio, referring to the money her family spent on the daughter-in-law, who is a Vietnamese bride.
According to Ding, her daughter-in-law was introduced by a woman named Wu Meiyu. Wu claimed to be a Vietnamese matchmaker who had been married to a local villager in Quzhou for over two decades. Ding's family paid Wu 100,000 yuan in July, after Wu began promoting her matchmaking services with Vietnamese women earlier this year. Wu also claimed that she could help get a household registration Nike Presto Ultra Breathe , or hukou, for the foreign brides.
After the Vietnamese brides went missing, the villagers were startled to find Wu, who had allegedly fled the country. They called the police on November 21. The number of victims, which was reportedly in the hundreds, included families in two other neighboring counties of Quzhou. Police are investigating the case.
Vietnamese brides are nothing new in Ding's neighborhood and in many other rural regions in China. Matchmaking services offering to "buy" a Vietnamese bride, though illegal Nike Presto Ultra Flyknit , still exist alongside persistent reports that many of the young brides have run away.
Brides on the lam
According to Ding's son, Xiao Yuan (pseudonym), his Vietnamese wife went missing on November 20 when she told the family that she needed to attend a wedding the next day. Similar excuses were offered to other families, reported hebradio. Xiao Zhang (pseudonym) also found his wife gone from their home in the village of Fenggang, in Jiangxi Province, after she claimed that she needed to go back home in Cambodia to visit an ailing family member. The family had "bought" the Cambodian girl for 80,000 yuan Nike Presto Ultra , reported Shandong-based bandao.
According to other villagers, Xiao Zhang's family had the best living conditions of