China rescues 1,100 foreign women sold as wives | The Malaysian Insight

Vietnamese women in Hanoi, Vietnam. Largely driven by poverty, young women from the Mekong region have gambled on marriage in China. – EPA pic, June 21, 2019.

CHINESE police have rescued more than 1,100 women from Southeast Asia who were “sold” as wives last year, authorities said today. Seventeen children were also saved in the joint operations with police from Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Thailand between July and December, the Public Security Ministry said in a statement.

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