South China Morning Post
AsiaPac · 26 mins ago
Don’t buy brides in Bangladesh, Chinese embassy warns as trafficking surges
China’s embassy in Bangladesh has joined a number of Chinese diplomatic missions warning the country’s citizens about using illegal matchmaking services to find brides.
Anyone who goes to the South Asian country to find a wife using brokers or agencies might face arrest on suspicion of human trafficking, the embassy said in a social media post on Tuesday.
Under Bangladeshi law, a human trafficking conviction carries a minimum sentence of seven years in prison plus a fine of at least 500,000…
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