PHNOM PENH, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- A new organization to regulate foreign marriage has been created following the lifting of a six-month suspension of such unions in 2008, English-language daily newspaper the Phnom Penh Post said on Tuesday.
The Association for People Protection (APP) was licensed by the Ministry of Interior on Dec. 12 to provide "free consultations on marriages to foreigners," the paper quoted an APP statement as saying.
The APP aims at protecting Cambodian overseas migrants, especially women marrying foreigners, said Ky Sina, president of the organization.
"The duty of the association is to help people applying for passports and visas to do this legally. Any foreigner who wants to marry a Cambodian woman will have to become a member of the APP," according to the statement.
The APP will also act as a mediator "to facilitate (dialogue) and find lawyers for both husband and wife" if they have problems later in their marriage, it added.
The foreign marriage suspension was enacted in April amid concerns over an explosion in the number of broker unions involving poor or uneducated women.
It also followed the release of an International Organization for Migration (IOM) report highlighting the plight of a rising number of Cambodian brides migrating to South Korea in marriages hastily arranged by brokers who made large profits.
Some 1,759 marriage visas were issued for Cambodians by South Korea in 2007, up from 72 in 2004, said the report.
The Association for People Protection (APP) was licensed by the Ministry of Interior on Dec. 12 to provide "free consultations on marriages to foreigners," the paper quoted an APP statement as saying.
The APP aims at protecting Cambodian overseas migrants, especially women marrying foreigners, said Ky Sina, president of the organization.
"The duty of the association is to help people applying for passports and visas to do this legally. Any foreigner who wants to marry a Cambodian woman will have to become a member of the APP," according to the statement.
The APP will also act as a mediator "to facilitate (dialogue) and find lawyers for both husband and wife" if they have problems later in their marriage, it added.
The foreign marriage suspension was enacted in April amid concerns over an explosion in the number of broker unions involving poor or uneducated women.
It also followed the release of an International Organization for Migration (IOM) report highlighting the plight of a rising number of Cambodian brides migrating to South Korea in marriages hastily arranged by brokers who made large profits.
Some 1,759 marriage visas were issued for Cambodians by South Korea in 2007, up from 72 in 2004, said the report.
6 comments:
it's a license to make money, APP will squeeze the blood out of the poor khmer girls just to give them the right and legal piece of paper. It is well known that most of the Cambodian public servants are corrupt and will find a way to corrupt.....it's a wont and in the blood.
Damn Ministry of Interior, no brain. now it's 06 of Jan already, but still not approved yet. Maybe Ministry of Interior cannot decide what to do with the new money they earn.
so what's the purpose?? would they actually deny two people who want to marry to marry??? on what basis? It smacks of a kind of racism.
Ky Sina, good on ya, ya will become a billionaire, lewgal corruption eATING BLOOD OF YOUNG GIRLS.
i think in my opinion, this is a great news.
Many cambodian girls who got married to Taiwanese or south korean are sold as prostitutes in their country. A few reports from NGO has indicated that, most of them doing this sort of business as part of the human trafficking...so it is a good step forward to protect young cambodian who are poor and uneducated when marrying foreigners...
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