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TAIPEI (Reuters) - In Taiwan, some men choose brides from the comfort of their living rooms by watching a TV show that airs photographs and biographical details of Vietnamese women looking for husbands.



The women are willing to marry men sometimes decades older than themselves to exchange a life of poverty at home for relative affluence abroad. These couples often don't live happily ever after. Vietnam native Nguyen Chi, 28, was kicked out by the husband she married five years ago and now scrapes by working at an electronics factory in Taipei. Ten of her 20 Vietnamese colleagues have also been dumped by their Taiwan husbands.



"We've all got the same problem. We're divorced or our husbands don't want us, and some of us are raising kids," said Nguyen, speaking in Mandarin learned during five years in Taiwan.

"I figured it would be a lot better than Vietnam here, but I hadn't been before. It's not that easy to make money."

The story of women such as Nguyen has prompted Taiwan and Vietnam -- whose 75,000 nationals are the island's largest non-Chinese immigrant group -- to get tougher on cross-border marriages to stop fraud and illegal residency following break-ups.

Taiwan men looking for "mail-order brides" are partial to Vietnamese women who they consider to be particularly submissive, matchmakers say. Often left on the shelf by local women, these men are looking for wives willing to have babies and help their ageing parents, the matchmakers add.



....what a man want a wife for since they just need a servant to clean the house and do the housework

I happened to see this article in Yahoo UK and it would not surprised me that mail-order bride had been news at all.  'Coz I remembered a movie that a man order a wife from Russia. It takes two to make a quarrel. One looks for excitement and leisure and the other searches for peaceful life.