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	<title>Voices for Vietnam Adoption Integrity &#187; In The News</title>
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		<title>More Questions Than Answers</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2010/02/25/more-questions-than-answers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:41:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ireland officially suspends adoptions from Vietnam</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2010/01/16/ireland-officially-suspends-adoptions-from-vietnam/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2010/01/16/ireland-officially-suspends-adoptions-from-vietnam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 05:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Arrested For Trafficking In Southern Vietnamese Province</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2009/11/09/two-arrested-for-trafficking-in-southern-vietnamese-province/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2009/11/09/two-arrested-for-trafficking-in-southern-vietnamese-province/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dong Nai]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guilty Verdicts in Nam Dinh Case</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2009/09/28/guilty-verdicts-in-nam-dinh-case/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2009/09/28/guilty-verdicts-in-nam-dinh-case/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>16 On Trial For Falsifying Paperwork in Nam Dinh</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2009/09/22/16-on-trial-for-falsifying-paperwork-in-nam-dinh/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2009/09/22/16-on-trial-for-falsifying-paperwork-in-nam-dinh/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Earth Times reports,
Sixteen Vietnamese medical and charity workers went on trial Tuesday for committing fraud in 266 adoptions of local children by foreign parents. The accused allegedly took money from adoption agencies to create fake documents enabling foreigners to adopt the children, said Ngo Tien Hung, vice president of the People&#8217;s Court in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adoptions from Vietnam may not be recognised, says board</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2009/09/21/adoptions-from-vietnam-may-not-be-recognised-says-board/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2009/09/21/adoptions-from-vietnam-may-not-be-recognised-says-board/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Irish Times:
The Adoption Board has warned prospective adoptive parents that any planned foreign adoptions from Vietnam have no special status here and may not be recognised under Irish law.
The board sent out the notice last week, warning prospective adopters that any application to adopt from Vietnam would be examined to ensure it complied [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vietnam&#8217;s National Assembly Continues To Hammer Out New Adoption Law</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2009/09/17/vietnams-national-assembly-continues-to-hammer-out-new-adoption-law/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2009/09/17/vietnams-national-assembly-continues-to-hammer-out-new-adoption-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vietnam Adoption Law]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[According to Viet Nam News on Thursday, the National Assemby&#8217;s Standing Committee heard a report on the draft law prepared by Deputy Minister of Justice, Dinh Trung Tung.  In his report Tung emphasized new rules that encourage domestic adoptions.
Tung said 20,000 children had been adopted over the past five years, only 13,000 of whom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VN Draft Law Discussed At August 21st Meeting</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2009/08/23/vn-draft-law-discussed-at-august-21st-meeting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2009/08/23/vn-draft-law-discussed-at-august-21st-meeting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Vietnamese Ministry of Justice held a meeting in coordination with the Vietnam office of UNICEF and HOLT International Children’s Services Vietnam this past Friday to discuss the new draft law on adoption.
According to Viet Nam Net:
Participants said it is essential that adoption be regulated by law to create stability in adoptive relations and conform [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Child traffickers convicted in Vietnam</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2009/06/26/three-child-traffickers-jailed-in-vietnam/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2009/06/26/three-child-traffickers-jailed-in-vietnam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[In The News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Vietnamese court sentenced three people to jail terms ranging from three to seven years for trafficking babies and selling them to an orphanage in Ninh Binh. An additional 12 accomplices were given suspended sentences. They were convicted of selling 12 infants for 130 million dong (approximately $7,600 US) between April 2006 and May 2008. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Madonna Effect</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2009/06/18/the-madonna-effect/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2009/06/18/the-madonna-effect/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;He says that he&#8217;s going to marry me
We can raise a little family
Maybe we&#8217;ll be alright
Its a sacrifice
But my friends keep telling me to give it up
Saying I&#8217;m too young, I ought to live it up
What I need right now is some good advice, please
Daddy, daddy if you could only see
Just how good he&#8217;s been [...]]]></description>
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