Monday January 7, 2013
Brides available for RM320 — regardless of prospective hubby’s age
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MALAYSIAN men are said to be flocking to Medan, Indonesia, to marry illegally for as little as 1mil rupiah (RM320), reported Metro Ahad.
A reporter from the tabloid spent a week there to research the matter and concluded that parents of the brides did not seem to mind if the men were young or old as long as they were willing to pay.
He also found that some of the women cheated on their husbands when the men went back to Malaysia for long stretches.
One of the women, Suryanti Martoso, 28, said she cheated on her husband, a businessman from Kuala Lumpur, because she was lonely.
She said her husband rarely came to visit her in Medan after his first wife found out about the marriage.
Suryanti married the businessman three years ago after meeting him in Penang where she used to work.
“We had a grand wedding which included a cow.
“He never fails to provide the payment of my monthly nafkah but it can get very lonely especially when I move far away from my family,” she said.
> The Malay daily also reported that troubled actress Zarina Anjoulie Mohamad Fahizul has urged the public not to link her personal and private problems to her acting career.
“Please do not associate my private matters with my career. My parents also have nothing to do with the incident that took place recently,” she said.
The 27-year-old model had been remanded for two days after her family failed to post bail after she was charged and claimed trial in court on Wednesday with possession of two Erimin 5 pills weighing 0.6g.
On allegations that she had problems with her parents, Zarina said the matter should not be an issue.
“I don't understand why certain quarters wanted to drag in my parents. They don't know what actu-ally happened. I hope they will stop questioning my parents as this is a private and family matter,” she said.
Other News & Views is compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with this > sign, it denotes a separate news item.
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MALAYSIAN men are said to be flocking to Medan, Indonesia, to marry illegally for as little as 1mil rupiah (RM320), reported Metro Ahad.
A reporter from the tabloid spent a week there to research the matter and concluded that parents of the brides did not seem to mind if the men were young or old as long as they were willing to pay.
He also found that some of the women cheated on their husbands when the men went back to Malaysia for long stretches.
One of the women, Suryanti Martoso, 28, said she cheated on her husband, a businessman from Kuala Lumpur, because she was lonely.
She said her husband rarely came to visit her in Medan after his first wife found out about the marriage.
Suryanti married the businessman three years ago after meeting him in Penang where she used to work.
“We had a grand wedding which included a cow.
“He never fails to provide the payment of my monthly nafkah but it can get very lonely especially when I move far away from my family,” she said.
> The Malay daily also reported that troubled actress Zarina Anjoulie Mohamad Fahizul has urged the public not to link her personal and private problems to her acting career.
“Please do not associate my private matters with my career. My parents also have nothing to do with the incident that took place recently,” she said.
The 27-year-old model had been remanded for two days after her family failed to post bail after she was charged and claimed trial in court on Wednesday with possession of two Erimin 5 pills weighing 0.6g.
On allegations that she had problems with her parents, Zarina said the matter should not be an issue.
“I don't understand why certain quarters wanted to drag in my parents. They don't know what actu-ally happened. I hope they will stop questioning my parents as this is a private and family matter,” she said.
Other News & Views is compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with this > sign, it denotes a separate news item.
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