Jul. 16 The property brokerage franchiser ERA Franchise (Thailand) has added a match-making business that would arrange property investment deals for both Thai and foreign investors, according to managing director Cosintr Comain. The company is currently looking for an office building for a Singapore-based property fund that had earlier failed in an attempt to buy a shopping mall in Bangkok.He said the fund was keen to invest in either an office building, a shopping mall or a condominium...
Gagandeep Kaur HYDERABAD: The traditional ritual called marriage is fast emerging as an industry, giving rise to corporatisation of various activities associated with it.Adding value to this is the Internet revolution, making online match-making the new buzzword. According to market estimates, the Indian marriage industry is worth Rs 2,000 crore with match-making alone accounting for about 20 per cent of the total. According to one of the leading online matchmaking websites, Shaadi.com,...
Police have ordered four Vietnamese women to leave Taiwan after a match-making agency paraded them across the island in a tour to marry them off for thousands of dollars, a police officer said Saturday.The women had violated immigration laws and been given until Wednesday to leave Taiwan, a police officer on Penghu island told AFP. The agency was also being investigated for trade in humans.Penghu has the island's highest rate of marriage between Taiwanese and foreigners...
ARRANGING instant marriages with foreign women is a lucrative business.Local match-making agencies are charging would-be husbands between RM13,000 and RM24,000, depending on how beautiful the "bride" is. This new trend has gained popularity, especially among local Chinese men in the past five years, so much so that there have been cases of rubber tappers using the services of agents to get brides.Women from China used to top the...
: What would a Chicago-based NRI girl do to marry a Toronto-based NRI boy? Come to Ahmedabad and register with a local marriage bureau, complete with her biodata, photo and horoscope to match.Surprisingly, the route to many a bride or groom's heart is via Ahmedabad for many second generation NRIs. And, with Diwali heralding the season for NRIs to troop down, many have begun enrolling with match-making bodies, asking them to scout for prospective partner in their adopted land....