Posted in Ethics, Experiences, In The News, US Embassy in Hanoi on Feb 25th, 2010 6 Comments »
After posting the story yesterday about the Vietnamese Ruc people and their complaints about how they were deceived into relinquishing their children for adoption, I remembered where I had read this story before.
Anthropologist Peter Bille Larsen wrote an extensive article about their case back in May 2008.
In this article, I point raise to the specific [...]
Posted in Ethics, In The News on Jan 16th, 2010 1 Comment »
Though the bilateral agreement on adoption between Ireland and Vietnam expired on May 1, 2009, Irish officials had reported that a new agreement between the two countries was being negotiated. However, Irish Minister of State for Children Barry Andrews announced this week that Ireland has decided to suspend adoptions from Vietnam until both Vietnam and Ireland [...]
Posted in In The News on Nov 9th, 2009 4 Comments »
According to Agence France-Presse
Police in Vietnam have arrested two people suspected of trafficking 20 babies in the communist country since 2007, a report said Monday.
The two suspects, a man and a woman detained Saturday in the southern province of Dong Nai, had confessed to buying the babies at hospitals in the south of the [...]
Posted in Ethics, In The News on Sep 28th, 2009 No Comments »
Than Nien News reports that all sixteen defendants in the adoption corruption case in Nam Dinh province have been found guilty. Six were sentenced to jail sentences of two and a half to four years.
The six were found guilty of “abuse of power in public duty,” said Nguyen Tien Hung, vice-president of the [...]
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