flying chicken wrote:How am I being belligerent?

flying chicken wrote:Was it what the official said, or did you form this with your opinion.

flying chicken wrote:The link to your above article is one of many articles I have read over the years.

flying chicken wrote: In fact, I was the first to read what Felgerkarb posted on K440 before most media published it.

Cambodia suspends foreign marriages: official

Date: April 3, 2008

Cambodia has suspended marriages between foreigners and Cambodians amid concerns over an explosion in the number of brokered unions involving poor, uneducated women, an official said Thursday.

The move follows an International Organisation for Migration (IOM) report highlighting the plight of an increasing number of Cambodian brides migrating to South Korea in marriages hastily arranged by brokers who make large profits.

Some 1,759 marriage visas were issued by South Korea in 2007, up from just 72 in 2004, the report said.

While no systematic exploitation was uncovered, several cases of abuse did raise a red flag with the government, said You Ay, secretary of state with the Women's Affairs Ministry.

"Seven women have returned from South Korea because they could not stand what happened to them there," You Ay told AFP.

"The government has temporarily suspended all (paperwork) for Cambodia women to marry foreigners," she said.

You Ay said the ban, which was approved last week, would be lifted after the government developed a legal framework to address mixed marriages.

"This suspension is to prevent human trafficking through marriage," she said, adding that while the brides often receive as little as 1,000 US US dollars, agencies can make tens of thousands of US dollars on each marriage.

"Cambodia is working to strengthen the laws on marriage," You Ay said.

IOM project coordinator John McGeoghan said that while the report targeted marriages between Cambodians and South Koreans, the potential for problems exists globally and that brokered unions needed to be better regulated.

Three South Korean marriage agencies have been closed down in Cambodia pending the government's decision on marriages to foreigners.

The South Korean embassy in Cambodia earlier this week halted issuing residency visas to Cambodian women wishing to marry Korean men.

© 2014 AFP

flying chicken wrote: It was a genuine question, was not an attack. For your information, I live in South Korea before this law was imposed. And there were only 2 report cases about Khmer women being abused; one was from Koreanbeat.com now it affiliated with asiancorrespondent.com. Shortly later, the Korean govt restrict korean marrying overseas wives unless they met certain requirement due international criticism from the global communities. The majority of abuse came from women from VN, China and 2 more poor countries which I cant remember, but Cambodia wasnt on the list.

FC wrote:
You got your fact wrong. Your choices either PM Felg himself, ask publicly or dig through Felg's posting history on this topic.