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Brits with Bangkok brides brace for rough ride (AFP via Yahoo! News) - Middle-aged British men with Internet-order Thai brides have long struggled for social acceptance and are now bracing for a BBC comedy sketch set to deal them a further blow.

When miidle-aged Brits meet Thai brides (Hindustan Times) - Middle-aged British men with Internet-order Thai brides have long struggled for social acceptance and are now bracing for a BBC comedy sketch set to deal them a further blow, The Times said Saturday.

Love and war: war brides remember (CBC Manitoba) - As the years go by, the number of people who remember the Second World War grows smaller and smaller. And today, as Canada remembers it's veterans, there is one group with a special connection to the war – the war brides.

Made-to-order brides shocker (The Star Online) - KUALA LUMPUR: Two Vietnamese women thought they were coming to Malaysia to work as tailors but found to their horror that they had been brought in as mail-order brides by an agent.

Vietnamese ‘brides’ agent Alex Lee of ESS Agency Exclusive Setup Sdn Bhd says the women knew that they would be married (Malay Mail) - “How can they claim not to know? My agent in Vietnam personally interviewed them and asked if they were willing to marry Malaysian men. They agreed.

South Tampa (SouthTampa.TBO.com) - SOUTH - TAMPA -- Ian Prosser knew working for the president would be good for business. Still, the Tampa resident said he was surprised to return from the 2005 Inaugural Day to find brides-to-be had booked Botanica International Florist for their weddings, sight unseen.

Rural Men Seek Uzbek Brides (donga.com) - The storyline for the movie “Wedding Campaign” (directed and written by Hwang Byung-gook) is so simple it can be summarized in a single line: Old bachelors from a farming village leave for Uzbekistan in search of brides.

Agency: Women not conned (The Star Online) - A matchmaking agent here has refuted claims that he conned two Vietnamese women into coming to Malaysia as mail-order-brides on the pretext of getting them jobs as tailors.

Christmas-kickoff special section is now available on this Web site. (Perry County News) - The Perry County News regularly includes special sections in its print edition, and those special sections are posted here, as well. Just look on the left side of this page for the list, which includes sections on seniors, brides, home improvement, Little League players and other topics.

75 years of classy gifts (The Olympian) - "Something blue" is a good motto -- and not only for brides. A.R. "Jimmie" Drees, the original owner of the downtown Olympia gift and home accessories shop that bears his name, knew that.