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Thailand
Pregnant Vietnamese “surrogates” allowed to go home, Police hunt for Taiwanese suspect in surrogacy gang
From the Bangkok Post: Thailand repatriated five pregnant Vietnamese women and five babies yesterday after freeing them from a Taiwanese gang which forced them to be surrogate mothers to Taiwanese customers. The five are among 15 Vietnamese women liberated during a police raid on Taiwanese-run Baby 101 Co in the Thararom housing estate on Ramkhamhaeng [...]
Thai police free 14 Vietnamese women from illegal baby-breeding farm in Bangkok
From The Huffington Post: A total of 14 Vietnamese women — half of them pregnant — have been rescued from an “illegal and inhuman” surrogate baby breeding ring in Thailand, the AFP is reporting. The company, called Baby 101, allegedly received orders by e-mail or via agents from childless couples offering thousands of dollars per [...]
Thailand no longer to accept adoption requests for healthy orphans
From the Department of State: The Department of Social Development and Welfare (DSDW) has announced that it will not accept new inter-country adoption requests made directly through DSDW for “healthy” orphans from Thailand for 2010. According to DSDW, there are not many orphans available for intercountry adoption in this category in need of placement. Therefore, [...]
Laws & Regulations
Thailand is party to the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption. Therefore all adoptions between Thailand and the United States must meet the requirements of the Convention and U.S. law implementing the Convention. US Embassy: Thailand Adoptions Information Office of Children’s Issues: Thailand Country Info DSDW Approved Adoption [...]
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