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"Singapore fair puts brides on display," by Tran Dinh Thanh Lam, Inter Press Service, 2 April 2005, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/GD02Ae01.html (from A Singapore Angle, and others).

I saw this movie. It ends with Jackie Chan saving everyone with light-hearted kung-fu stuntery. It was pretty awesome.

News of the public exhibition of Vietnamese brides for "instant marriage" at a recent fair in Singapore along with the sale of young Vietnamese girls to single men in neighboring China seeking wives has shocked the public here.

On March 17, police in Vietnam's capital, Hanoi, arrested four young Vietnamese men ranging from the ages of 19 to 23 for selling their girlfriends to a Chinese syndicate. These men first made friends with the eight girls by chatting to them over the Internet. They were then enticed to travel with the men to Lang Son province in the north. Once there, they were sold to the syndicate for 5,000 yuan (US$600) each.

"These guys all are very young, but have wicked hearts. The ringleader, Dao Ngoc Dung, is evil enough to sell his two lovers," read a statement on VietnamNet, an online news portal.