PHUKET: Officials in charge of registering marriages in Phuket have confirmed that they have begun scanning fingerprints of all foreign men who register to marry a Thai woman so that they can have criminal background checks conducted. The regulation change, which was issued by the Department of Provincial Administration (DOPA) head office in Bangkok in […]
A father from Afghanistan, barely making ends meet, sold his own daughter to a 55-year-old cleric for a goat and some food. Footage doing the rounds on the Internet shows the moment local women gave him a beating. The father agreed to sell his six-year-old daughter Gharibgol to the 55-year-old imam, Seyed Abdolkarim, which runs […]
He calls it matrimony. Her parents call it kidnapping. Whatever the case — and it’s a complicated case — an Afghan mullah finds himself behind bars following his purported marriage to a six-year-old girl. Sayed Mohammad Karim, a 50-something religious figure in a village in the central province of Ghor, was arrested this week and […]
Last month, artist Aaron Chervenak drove from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, Nevada to finally take the love for his smartphone to the next level by marrying it at a small wedding chapel. And yeah, in case you’re wondering, he even put a ring on it. A study conducted by internet security giant Kaspersky found […]
Pakistani officials say a woman has been arrested after burning her daughter alive because the young woman had defied her family to marry a man of her choice. Police said the killing took place in the eastern city of Lahore on June 8, and that the mother was arrested the same day. The suspect, Parveen […]
A high-profile imam has urged the Danish government to accept child brides, as the practice is part of the culture of many refugees arriving in the country. It follows an announcement by Denmark that such couples will be separated under Danish law. Imam Oussama El-Saadi, of the Aarhus mosque in Denmark, said that child brides […]
BANGKOK:– A celebrity Thai cosmetic surgeon has got engaged to a woman whose face he worked on. Love blossomed after Yingyae had been treated at the famous surgery of Nopparat Rattanawara, where there is a month waiting list just for a consultation, Thai media reported. Read more: Thaivisa news Thaivisa / Sanook News / Daily […]
Research shows an increase in the number of young middle-class Thai women marrying white men. It reflects not only a shift from a struggle for financial security to self-fulfilment based a love match, but also a clash between the new social trends versus traditional social prejudice. On 5 July, ‘The farang husband nirvana phenomenon in […]
