Some
Myanmar singles are
marrying even if
they've only met online
YANGON — Esther Ngun Nei Mawi just had the kind of wedding she dreamed of as a young girl. There was a table stacked with gifts, a banquet, hundreds of her friends and family member in attendance and a bridal gown of handwoven fabric unique to her community in western Myanmar.*
There was, however, one vital thing missing: the groom.
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While Esther,19, was eating cake and dancing, her 25-year-old fiancé, Van Bawi Piang, was more than 1,400 miles away in Malaysia.*
Esther's wedding picture
Image: esther ngun nei mawi
Bawi Pi, as he's also k**wn, has lived abroad for the three years since he migrated from his village near Esther’s town of Falam. But thanks to
Some crude digital editing, that didn’t stop him from being in the wedding photo.
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