Don’t buy brides in Bangladesh, Chinese embassy warns as trafficking surges

China’s embassy in Bangladesh has joined a number of Chinese diplomatic missions warning the country’s citizens about using illegal matchmaking services to find brides. Anyone who goes to the South Asian country to find a wife using brokers or agencies might face arrest on suspicion of human trafficking, the embassy said in a social media post on Tuesday. Under Bangladeshi law, a human trafficking conviction carries a minimum sentence of seven years in prison plus a fine of at least 500,000 taka...