TAO Yuan International Airport, Taiwan, July 13, 2006. A 27-year-old woman, in advanced pregnancy, was among hundreds of passengers just arriving from overseas. Everything seemed strange to Lim Shio Lian, a woman from Kampung Belakang, Kamal, Kalideres, in West Jakarta. But she walked on trying to locate the man she was looking for.

The man Lian was looking for was twice her age, a construction worker named Shin Chung. Months before Shin had com