A Chinese matchmaker was intercepted at Ninoy Aquino International Airport before he could bring two Filipino women to China for marriage.
Although the Philippines does not have a law prohibiting love, it does have laws against human trafficking and matchmaking. “These laws do not only prohibit sending women abroad for prostitution or forced labor. They also define as trafficking the act of introducing or matching for profit any Filipino woman to a foreigner for marriage,” the Immigration commissioner Ricardo David Jr. said.
The two Filipina women were supposedly going to Beijing for a vacation but they could not answer when Immigration officers asked them about their itinerary. Identification cards that they submitted and that claimed they were supervisors and managers of a Filipino-Chinese mining firm also turned out to be fake.
They later admitted they were going to China to marry men they had never met.
