By Julie Masis
Asia Time Online
PHNOM PENH - Foreign men who are older than 50 and any foreign man who earns less than US$2,500 per month will no longer be allowed to marry Cambodian women, according to new marriage regulations introduced by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The strict new rules, issued on March 7, aim to curb surging human trafficking often facilitated under the guise of marriage. According to ministry spokesman Koy Kuong, the regulations will discourage local marriages in which a foreign husband and local wife look like "a grandfather and a granddaughter".
"We want Cambodian women who get married to foreigners living abroad to have a decent life," Kuong said. "We want to have [a] real couple. If [the foreign husband and Cambodian wife are] very much different in age, it's showing [that it's] not a real marriage."
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The strict new rules, issued on March 7, aim to curb surging human trafficking often facilitated under the guise of marriage. According to ministry spokesman Koy Kuong, the regulations will discourage local marriages in which a foreign husband and local wife look like "a grandfather and a granddaughter".
"We want Cambodian women who get married to foreigners living abroad to have a decent life," Kuong said. "We want to have [a] real couple. If [the foreign husband and Cambodian wife are] very much different in age, it's showing [that it's] not a real marriage."
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