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More than 100 Vietnamese women in the northern province of Hebei disappeared.

China's gender imbalance sometimes makes poorer single men buy brides from South East Asian countries. The single men had paid tens of thousands of yuan each to the Vietnamese matchmaker, named Wu Meiyu, she had been living in Hebei for more than 20 years.

Earlier this year she went to countryside in Hebei looking for buyers, and told them to pay 115,000 yuan ($18,600; £11,800) for a Vietnamese bride.

On 20 November, the wives told their husbands that they were having a meal with other Vietnamese brides. But they didn’t return to their husbands. When the husbands went to Ms Wu's home to look for her, they found out that she had left a few days earlier.

Jinghua Daily reported that at least one bride returned. She said that she suddenly fell asleep after the meal and woke up to find herself in a small house far from her husband's village of Quzhou. Somebody told her that she would be going elsewhere to "find another husband". 

China's one-child policy has created a gender imbalance as Chinese like male babies more than female. So some poorer single men in the countryside have to ask matchmakers for brides from nearby countries such as Vietnam, Cambodia and Myanmar (also known as Burma).

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