In a small village of Guangdong Province. December 2007.
In 1995, Ngha, a young Vietnamese woman of 21 studying at the University of Hanoi, leaves her family who want her to marry a man they have chosen as she is in love with another man. She ran into the wrong people, she was abducted and sold in China for 8,000 yuans (800 euros) to a man older than her own father living in Guangdong Province. After a few weeks she manages to escape and finds refuge at the home of another Vietnamese. A few months later, she meets Xiao Yi, a merchant, whom she falls in love with. They have now been living together for 12 years but Ngha not being successful in conceiving a baby, the couple bought a child this year. This child has cost them 10,000 Yuan (1.000€) to which they had to add another 90,000 Yuans (9.000€) to "launder" him with the local authorities. The 8-year old boy would be the son of a separated couple. he would have been
placed in the care of his paternal grandmother. The latter being too poor to provide for both of them would have sold him to Ngha's husband. Talking to me, Ngha knows she talking to a journalist, yet she readily gives me all this information. She is very happy t be able to tell me her story in her native Vietnamese language for I am also of Vietnamese descent.