China’s skewed sex ratio has created 12.2 million surplus men, driving desperate grooms to Nepal’s bride market. The Chinese ...

Nepalese authorities have intensified a crackdown against illegal cross-border matchmaking following revelations that brokers ...

Many men, especially those from Western countries, are driven to find foreign brides to create strong family values. Indeed, with the advent of international dating, it became easy to find a partner ...

Officials say online brokers are promoting Nepali women to Chinese men, prompting detentions and official warnings.

Nepalese authorities are cracking down on illegal cross-border matchmaking that markets Nepali women as brides for Chinese nationals. Several arrests and deportations have occurred, while the Chinese ...

MARRIAGE IN CHINA can be mercenary. “Is 380,000 yuan a lot for a bride price?” a woman in Guangdong asks on a social-media site. She is thinking of getting married, and wants to know how much her ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean defectors who became brides for rural Chinese men, they faced another excruciating choice when they suffered abuse: to flee to South Korea and leave their ...

China's bachelor crisis meets Nepal's poverty in a trade that blurs the lines between arranged marriage and coercion Late one night in southern Nepal last month, whispers spread of an unusual wedding ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The way Huang Xiahong had it figured, she said, life in prosperous Taiwan was bound to be better than her prospects in the teeming Chinese city of Guangzhou. So three years ago, she ...