Shanghai's marriage market: Bridal bliss or marital mayhem?

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With a projected 24 million bachelors in China by 2020, Shanghai’s parents at the local marriage market have their work cut out ...
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Shanghai marriage delays due to high house prices

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As young Shanghainese delay their nuptials, we dig into Cyberspace and discover surprising reasons for their procrastination In a recent survey on pre-marriage costs in six major Chinese cities, Shanghai came top with average costs of RMB 1.4 ...
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Shanghai pickup artists boot camp -- an eyewitness view

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Geoff Ng gets a crash course in picking up women from PickupAsia master RedpoleQ With just a few hours of coaching, how successful a pickup artist would you be? Want to know more about the man behind the workshop? Check out CNNGo’s interview with ...
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Cross-cultural relationships flourish -- with the help of Japanese yen

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Love is in the air A master's student puts Thai-Japanese marriages under the microscope Screen shot of Thailovelinks.com, one of hundreds of multi-language websites designed to target foreign men looking to date or marry Thai women. off With the ...
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Confessions of a pickup artist

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Confessions of a pickup artist What women want and what men need -- one of Asia's premier 'pickup artists,' RedpoleQ, believes he has the answers. As co-founder of PickUp Asia he's preaching them to single men across the region RedpoleQ in action. At ...
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Marriage hunting: Japan's 'Konkatsu' kraze

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Japanese marriage hunting CNN follows everygirl Nozomi Okabe on her hunt for a husband who is tall, rich and maybe even affectionate If CNN were more widely available in Japan, this segment would be great advertising for Nozomi's marriage partner ...
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