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Published on 19/03/2024
» The Criminal Court has sentenced seven people involved in a transnational surrogacy network each to four years in jail, then released them because they had already spent more time in detention.
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 24/02/2024
» A man believed to be part of a transnational surrogacy network has been arrested in Nonthaburi for alleged involvement in smuggling frozen human semen into Laos.
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 15/02/2022
» When a one-year-old toddler named Thaenthai recently went missing from GS Kik nursery in Bangkok, it soon became clear that there was a dark side to the case.
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 07/05/2021
» A probe has been launched into a suspected surrogacy ring after a Chinese woman was arrested at Suvarnabhumi airport for trying to leave the country with an 11-month-old infant using a fake birth certificate, Immigration Bureau chief Sompong Chingduang said yesterday.
News, Post Reporters, Published on 06/02/2021
» Cybercrime police have cracked down on an illegal transnational surrogacy ring disguised as a cleaning company.
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 14/02/2020
» Five women paid to be surrogate mothers were among seven Thais and two Chinese nationals arrested in raids on a transnational commercial surrogacy ring on Thursday morning. The women were among at least 100 women across the country hired by the gang to be surrogate mothers since 2012, said police.
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 13/02/2020
» Five Thai women paid to be illegal surrogate mothers and a Chinese man were arrested at a large house in Bangkok during a series of police raids on Thursday morning.
Asia focus, Published on 30/12/2019
» Way back when 1999 was winding down, pundits were telling us that the Asian Century was about to dawn. That prediction has not yet been fully realised, but few would disagree that 2019 belonged to China. Over the past 12 months, the top headlines have been about the bruising trade war with America, defiant protests in Hong Kong against Beijing's tightening grip, and the rise of a surveillance state that is herding hundreds of thousands into "re-education" camps on its western fringes. Below, the Asia Focus team looks back on a busy and sometimes troubling 2019.
Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 18/03/2019
» A person can be born or made stateless, but either way the limitations such a status places on one's rights are severe. The issue has come into sharp focus with the case of Shamima Begum, a 19-year-old Islamic State supporter who was stripped of her British nationality for her decision to joined the self-declared caliphate in 2015.
AFP, Published on 21/12/2018
» PHNOM PENH: Pregnant and scared, Yin hides in a house on the outskirts of Phnom Penh -- one of an untold number of Cambodian surrogate mothers risking jail time for lucrative payouts from Chinese clients.