Republic of China nationals in Vietnam

Republic of China nationals in Vietnam consist largely of expatriate businessmen and their families. The Ho Chi Minh City branch of the Taipei-based China External Trade Development Council estimates that 20,000 people from Taiwan were living in Vietnam as of 2002. [cite news|work=Taiwan Journal|url=http://taiwanjournal.nat.gov.tw/ct.asp?xItem=19708&CtNode=118|date=2002-11-15|accessdate=2008-02-05|title='Going South' to Vietnam pays off for investors|last=Li|first=Francis]

According to statistics of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, there are an estimated 3,000 women in Vietnam, formerly married to Taiwan husbands, who have been left stateless after their divorces; the women had given up Vietnamese nationality to naturalise as Republic of China citizens at the time of their marriage, but then returned to Vietnam following their divorces and gave up their Republic of China nationality in the process of applying for restoration of Vietnamese nationality. Their children, who hold only Republic of China nationality and have never previously been Vietnamese nationals, are ineligible to enter publicly-supported schools in Vietnam.cite news|work=Radio Taiwan International|title=聯合國刊物報導　嫁台越南新娘淪為無國籍困境 (United Nations report: Vietnamese brides married to Taiwan men fall into the trap of statelessness)|date=2007-12-12|accessdate=2008-01-23|last=Chung|first=Chin-lung|url=http://www.rti.com.tw/News/NewsContentHome.aspx?NewsID=91791&t=1|language=Chinese]

ee also

*Koreans in Vietnam
*Vietnamese people in Taiwan

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