Men sentenced for bride-smuggling

Five people were imprisoned for smuggling women from Vietnam and selling them to Chinese bachelors, Zhejiang-based Today Morning Express reported on Monday.

The gang began taking single men from Taizhou of Zhejiang province to Yunnan in 2011 to date women they claimed were ethnic Miao in the presence of their "parents". But, the brides-to-be turned out to have been abducted from Vietnam.

They earned more than 300,000 yuan ($48,985) from the matchmaking service for which they were sentenced to between six and 12 years in prison.