This file photo shows Vietnamese orphans at the Tam Binh orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City, in 2007. A US envoy will head this week to Vietnam and Cambodia to look at ways to resume adoptions, which have been suspended due to concerns over child trafficking, according to the State Department.
(AFP/File/Hoang Dinh Nam)
WASHINGTON - A US ENVOY will head this week to Vietnam and Cambodia to look at ways to resume adoptions, which have been suspended due to concerns over child trafficking, the State Department said on Monday.
Susan Jacobs, the special US adviser on children's issues, will head on Wednesday to the South-east Asian countries for talks with officials and other stakeholders on adoption, the department said.
The United States suspended adoptions from Cambodia in 2001 and from Vietnam in 2008. In Vietnam, a US probe found that some adoption rackets were paying US$10,000 (S$12,660) 'donations' to orphanages to claim falsely that infants were abandoned.
The State Department, in a statement, said it 'welcomes Vietnam's strong efforts to create a child welfare system and an inter-country adoption process that will meet its obligations' under the Hague treaty on adoptions.
The United States is the world's largest source of adoptive parents. Other countries have also been moving to restart adoptions in South-east Asia, with Cambodia drafting regulations for children to be adopted by French parents. -- AFP
(AFP/File/Hoang Dinh Nam)
WASHINGTON - A US ENVOY will head this week to Vietnam and Cambodia to look at ways to resume adoptions, which have been suspended due to concerns over child trafficking, the State Department said on Monday.
Susan Jacobs, the special US adviser on children's issues, will head on Wednesday to the South-east Asian countries for talks with officials and other stakeholders on adoption, the department said.
The United States suspended adoptions from Cambodia in 2001 and from Vietnam in 2008. In Vietnam, a US probe found that some adoption rackets were paying US$10,000 (S$12,660) 'donations' to orphanages to claim falsely that infants were abandoned.
The State Department, in a statement, said it 'welcomes Vietnam's strong efforts to create a child welfare system and an inter-country adoption process that will meet its obligations' under the Hague treaty on adoptions.
The United States is the world's largest source of adoptive parents. Other countries have also been moving to restart adoptions in South-east Asia, with Cambodia drafting regulations for children to be adopted by French parents. -- AFP
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Where are the hundreds and thousands of real Cambodian children orphans?, Why are we only publicize Yuon kids in our news media?, We should show more of the Yuon's expansion of their people to our country, the destruction committed by Yuon of our forest and other natural resources, thousands of Yuon civilian soldiers roaming around our street, Yuon put leashes on our government officials at all level, every of our government official really scare the heck of Yuon and they will not stand up and face Yuon and will not sacrifice for our country and our people. We the people of real Cambodian need to start taking care of our country, we the people of Cambodia need to be vicious to the Yuon people that are living in country, before the kill us all and TAKING EVERYTHING FROM US.
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