
Guardian – Trafficking and exploitation in focus
‘I hope you’re ready to get married’: in search of Vietnam’s kidnapped brides
Phượng’s daughter was abducted from her village in Vietnam and sold into marriage in China. Could she track her down – starting with Facebook?
by Kate Hodal – Saturday 26 August 2017 04.00 EDT
Early one morning last April, Phượng woke to find over 100 missed calls on her mobile phone, all of them from her eldest daughter, Lý. “Mum!” Lý screamed, when she called back. “Where have you been? Cẩm is missing!” Lý’s voice cracked with panic over her little sister’s disappearance. “She called me from the border and said she’d been tricked! She’s been sold!”