Posted in In The News on Jun 21st, 2011 1 Comment »
From Very Vietnam: By constructing a building with the name “Tiên Phước 2 Temple” and gathering orphaned children to raise, a so-called “nun” has quickly become rich with money from sympathetic donors… At the end of an alleyway, stood a three-storey house with yellow paint on its exterior, a spacious interior and a Buddha statuette [...]
Posted in In The News, US Department of State on Jun 15th, 2011 1 Comment »
16 Vietnamese kids, US families in adoption limbo Most of the adoptions already in the pipeline went forward under exceptions to the 2008 moratorium, but paperwork problems delayed the Bac Lieu cases. Vietnam now says it hopes to join the international Hague Convention on adoptions in October and that the pending cases must start over [...]
Posted in In The News on May 31st, 2011 No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in In The News on May 29th, 2011 No Comments »
From the Washington Times: Freshman senator, Marco Rubio, a Republican from Florida, has blocked President Obama’s nominee for ambassador to Vietnam. Rubio’s hold on the nomination of David Shear, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, who since 2009 has served as Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs [...]
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