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Georgia and Thailand probe human egg trafficking ring
Published on 07/02/2025
» Thailand and Georgia said they are investigating a human trafficking ring that a Thai non-governmental organisation says is engaged in harvesting human eggs of Thai women brought to the South Caucasus country.
Thai women rescued from human-egg farm in Georgia
News, Online Reporters, Published on 03/02/2025
» Three Thai women have been rescued after being lured into a human-egg harvesting scheme operated by Chinese gangsters in the former Soviet republic of Georgia.
Thai health ministry to overhaul law on surrogacy
News, Post Reporters, Published on 15/01/2025
» The Public Health Ministry is revising the surrogacy law in response to the enforcement of the equal marriage law and welcoming overseas couples to have surrogate babies in Thailand.
Rules on gender status and identity to change
Supoj Wancharoen and Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 20/06/2024
» State agencies are preparing to amend regulations and measures related to people's gender and marital status after the marriage equality bill was passed by the Senate on Tuesday.
Defendants in surrogacy case jailed, then released
Wassayos Ngamkham and Online Reporters, 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.
Surrogacy to be legalised for foreigners
Post Reporters, Published on 01/03/2024
» Authorities are preparing to change the surrogacy law to welcome foreign couples to have surrogate babies in Thailand, according to the Department of Health Service Support.
Man held in connection with surrogacy ring
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.
Chinese men believed seeking Thai wives to have surrogate sons
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 25/12/2023
» Police are investigating a possible new illegal surrogacy movement involving Chinese men marrying Thai women, after a woman complained she was abandoned when her fiance learned the child she was carrying by him was a girl, not the son he wanted.
DSI raids clinics in surrogacy crackdown
News, Post Reporters, Published on 02/09/2023
» The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) raided three clinics in Bangkok and one building in Nong Khai this week and arrested a man suspected of acting as an agent for a transnational surrogacy ring.
Illegal surrogacy offenders face stiffer penalties
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 12/05/2023
» The Department of Health Service Support (DHSS) is drafting an amendment to the "Protection of a Child Born by Medically Assisted Reproductive Technology Act, B.E. 2558 (2015)" to increase the penalties against those who facilitate illegal surrogacy in the country, including brokers and hired women.