"The media's claim of 3,000 Taiwanese orphans in Vietnam is hugely exaggerated," says Chen Shan-lin, director-general of TECO in Ho Chi Minh City. He cites Ministry of the Interior figures showing that only something over 700 Taiwanese children have remained in Vietnam for more than two years, and says that many of these are the children of Taiwanese businesspeople living in Vietnam.
「媒體號稱越南有 3,000 名台灣孤兒，實在言過其實，」駐胡志明台北辦事處處長陳杉林指出，據內政部統計，留在越南超過 2 年的台灣籍兒童只有七百多人，其中有很多根本是越南台商的孩子。