What Tran has found most galling is the Taiwanese media's stories of "' Taiwanese orphans 'abandoned on the banks of the Mekong River." The media portrays the kids as being in dire straits, pulling on its audience's heartstrings to rake in big bucks in donations.
陳凰鳳最忿忿不平的是，曾有台灣媒體以「湄公河畔的台灣囝仔」來形容在越南的台灣孩子，把他們描述得處境堪憐，還發動公益募款，大賺同情錢。