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Money really can’t buy you love — just ask this picky multimillionaire on Long Island. Lonely securities trader Larry Greenfield, 47, has plunked down more than $65,000 on high-end matchmaking services — all in the hopes of finding his ideal wife. After trying six different agencies over the past 12 years — and seeing 250 women — without success, the bachelor is blasting the expensive dating services as a “rip-off.” But the matchmakers are firing back, saying Greenfield wants women who are simply out of his league. Greenfield, who retired after a successful career at Opus Trading in Jericho, Long...

PHOENIX (Reuters) - A Los Angeles company is touting a new reality game show called "Who Wants to Marry a U.S. Citizen" that aims to create televised matrimony between legal citizens and immigrants who have temporary visas. The show's backers at Morusa Media hope to make a sort of love match between reality TV and a national obsession with immigration. But the producers make no promise that a marriage will occur or lead to U.S. citizenship. Show creator Adrian Martinez said that Morusa Media has not yet found a network to produce or air the show, but he is currently...

08/03/2005 -- 21:45(GMT+7) HCM City, Aug. 3 (VNA) - Police from southern Tien Giang province has detected a ring that illegally organised meetings between Vietnamese girls and prospective Korean husbands with its leader being a woman holding the Republic of Korea citizenship. After nine months of investigation, police has found Oh Moon Sook hiding in Ho Chi Minh City, who has from July 2002 entered Viet Nam 28 times as a tourist, but in fact she operated as a matchmaker, violating Viet Nam's laws. She was assisted by two Vietnamese women to organise meetings between the "brides" and the clients,...