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	<title>Voices for Vietnam Adoption Integrity &#187; US Embassy in Hanoi</title>
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		<title>Ambassador Visits Bac Lieu Orphanage</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2011/12/01/ambassador-visits-bac-lieu-orphanage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following note was posted on the website of the US Embassy in Hanoi, Vietnam: On November 29, Ambassador David Shear visited Bac Lieu province in southeast Vietnam. His itinerary in the province included a visit to Bac Lieu orphanage and meetings with local officials. While the Embassy has given no further public details about the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Embassy: &#8220;It is not possible to estimate when adoptions between the United States and Vietnam may resume.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2011/09/27/us-embassy-it-is-not-possible-to-estimate-when-adoptions-between-the-united-states-and-vietnam-may-resume/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2011/09/27/us-embassy-it-is-not-possible-to-estimate-when-adoptions-between-the-united-states-and-vietnam-may-resume/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The Embassy of the United States, Hanoi, Vietnam: General Information The Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) on Adoptions between the United States and Vietnam expired on September 1, 2008. Intercountry adoption from Vietnam to the U.S. is not possible at this time, including exceptional cases.  Vietnam Adoption Reform Vietnam has made immense progress on adoption [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Ambassador To Vietnam Confirmed</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2011/08/03/new-ambassador-to-vietnam-confirmed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2011/08/03/new-ambassador-to-vietnam-confirmed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 21:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Shear is on his way to Vietnam to take up his post as ambassador there after Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) lifted her hold, which she placed in order to pressure the State Department to act on Vietnamese adoption and custody problems. Marco Rubio&#8217;s hold was lifted in mid-June. In his confirmation hearing testimony given [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Supports UNICEF Child Adoption Program in Vietnam</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2011/04/26/u-s-supports-unicef-child-adoption-program-in-vietnam/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2011/04/26/u-s-supports-unicef-child-adoption-program-in-vietnam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The Embassy of the United States &#8211; Hanoi, Vietnam: Press Release U.S. Supports UNICEF Child Adoption Program in Vietnam HANOI, April 25, 2011 &#8211; The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is contributing to a new United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) program to help officials create regulations meeting international standards covering child adoption [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going To The Source: Vietnam September Adoption Issues Cable</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2010/09/22/going-to-the-source-vietnam-september-adoption-issues-cable/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2010/09/22/going-to-the-source-vietnam-september-adoption-issues-cable/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 21:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chosing An Agency]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Document Number: 2007HANOI01820 From: American Embassy in Hanoi To: Secretary of State Date: October 2007 Subject: Vietnam September Adoption Issues Cable {approximately half of this document is redacted} Summary: During the month of September post [US Embassy in Hanoi] issued 65 adoption related immigrant visas. Post also significantly expanded its field verification of adoption cases. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going To The Source</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2010/09/22/going-to-the-source/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2010/09/22/going-to-the-source/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we mentioned last week, EJ Graff and the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism obtained hundreds of pages of documentation relating to Vietnam adoptions from the U.S. government through a Freedom of Information Act request. All of these documents are available at their website for anyone to view, and we highly recommend doing so. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unprecedented Look Behind The Scenes In Vietnam</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2010/09/13/unprecedented-look-behind-the-scenes-in-vietnam/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2010/09/13/unprecedented-look-behind-the-scenes-in-vietnam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 22:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[E. J. Graff&#8217;s article, Anatomy of an Adoption Crisis, online today at ForeignPolicy.com, pulls back the veil to reveal details and information only previously hinted at and corruption beyond what many of us could have imagined. &#8230; inside their fog of secrecy, the faceless bureaucrats were also agonizing about the well-being of the children and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Questions Than Answers</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2010/02/25/more-questions-than-answers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2010/02/25/more-questions-than-answers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:41:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
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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 [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Corruption in Vietnam Adoptions</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2009/01/12/corruption-in-vietnam-adoptions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2009/01/12/corruption-in-vietnam-adoptions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post, today, printed this short yet powerful look at International Adoption. Of specific interest to those of us involved in adoptions from Vietnam is this bit: A cable from the U.S. embassy in Vietnam, recently obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism, said that, &#8220;while [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>New DoS statement</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2008/09/05/new-dos-statement/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2008/09/05/new-dos-statement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 03:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Department of State has issued their statement regarding the passing September 1st expiration of the bilateral adoption agreement this week.  It says, in part: The Vietnamese Department of International Adoptions (DIA) has confirmed that the DIA continued to issue referrals to prospective adoptive parents until September 1, 2008, the date the United States – [...]]]></description>
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