No love story, as coronavirus woes drive some ethnic minority families in Hong Kong to marry off teen girls


HONG KONG, Oct 17 (SCMP): Late one night in June, social worker Yu Miu-po received a text message from a 16-year-old girl who left Hong Kong for Pakistan in March with her parents and siblings, when Covid-19 infections were severe.

Born and raised in Hong Kong, she complained that her father was forcing her and her 14-year-old sister to get married and had picked two of his nephews as their bridegrooms.

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