Taiwan police screen Chinese brides to prevent fake marriages
Taipei (dpa) - Taiwan police's strict screening of mainland Chinese brides has broken up more some 30,000 cross-Strait marriages, most of which were genuine, a newspaper said on Tuesday.
The China Times said that since Taiwan introduced interviews of Chinese spouses in 2003, Taiwan police had interviewed 133,305 mainland spouses - mainly wives - upon their arrival at Taiwan airports.
Those who were considered "fake" or "suspicious" were denied entry. In those interviews, the Taiwanese husbands and their mainland wives were interviewed at the same time in separate cubicles.
The paper said that since 2003, Taiwan police have interviewed 133,305 cross-Strait couples when the wives arrived in Taiwan to join their husbands.
Whie 103,367 mainland wives, or 77.5 per cent, passed the interview, 16,819 (12.6 per cent) were declared fake and 13,119 (9.9 per cent) were listed as suspicious.
The Cross-Strait Marriage Consultancy Association blamed the strict police questioning for breaking up some 30,000 marriages because the questions were too embarrassing, the paper said.
"Some mainland wives were too nervous or embarrassed, which caused them to fail to pass the interview," the paper quoted Wang Chun-ping, head of the association, as saying.
The association said Taiwan police ask the cross-Strait couples 50 questions, including how many times they made love on the wedding night, who was top and who was bottom, what time the couple woke up the next morning and what they ate for breakfast. // © 2006 DPA
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