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American firm dodges China’s tariff hikes, selling off millions in inventory

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Diplomacy

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Americas

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Japan

Japan’s second ‘baby hatch’ for abandoned infants opens amid economic strain

With thousands of product prices rising, the cost of raising a child is becoming an impossible burden for some young Japanese women.

US-China relations

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Hong Kong

Charity seeks adopters for special needs children in Hong Kong

Trending in China

Dutch-adopted man revisits China family, tells adopter ‘You’ll always be my dad’

Birth father searched for him and his mother for two years in vain, living in sorrow and ill health until his death in 2009.

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Gao Yang got lost in a train station and was sent to an orphanage, where he was adopted by a Dutch couple, who embraced him as their own. Photo: SCMP composite/Douyin
South Korea

South Korea’s adoption scandal: a 20-year fight for truth amid corruption

Ahn Andersen is one of many adoptees who have spent decades searching for their Korean roots, facing roadblocks from adoption agencies and government bodies.

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Crime

Woman tried to sell unborn baby on Facebook for ‘minimum of US$150’, police say

Mother was arrested and charged with sale or purchase of a child, Houston Police Department records show. Her bond was set at US$30,000.

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US-China relations

Biden urged to help US families hit by halted China adoption scheme

Some 300 children on mainland had been matched with adoptive American families when the ban was announced in August.

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Toddlers are brought out for a walk at an orphanage in Shanghai on November 21, 2005. Beijing started to allow foreigners to adopt children from China in 1992. Photo: Reuters
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Chinese woman takes DNA test after joke about her looks, finds out true identity

Her parents are evasive and contradictory about her birth date, deepening her confusion about her origins.

Asian diaspora

The stories she’d been told were a lie… she wasn’t the baby in the photo

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Celebrity children

Who is Ava Baroni ‘Combs’ – and did Diddy actually adopt her?

In a disturbing resurfaced video from 2020, Diddy kisses a young girl called Ava on the cheek as she calls him ‘Papa Combs’; he also explains how she met his twin daughters D’Lila and Jessie as a baby.

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South Korea

My Take | Ethnic Korean adoptee seeks to close ‘gaping hole’ in his heart

China has banned overseas adoptions of locally-born children but South Korea’s international adoption programme is still going on.

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China officially ends adoption scheme for foreign families

Only relatives will now be allowed to adopt and US diplomats have reportedly been told that Beijing will not process cases that are already under way.

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Trending in China

Famous Taiwan man with cancer promises KOL ‘son’ US$9.4 million in exchange for care

A famous Taiwanese show business guru who suffers from poor health has decided to leave the bulk of his fortune to a teenage YouTube influencer instead of his family.

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Fame and celebrity

Who is Meg Ryan’s 20-year-old daughter, Daisy True Ryan – who was adopted from China?

Meg Ryan takes all the opportunities she can get to spend time with her children, who she describes as ‘a blast’ – so what do we know about her daughter, Daisy True Ryan?

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Chinese couple reunite with son given up by grandma 37 years ago due to poverty

A couple in China whose newborn son was given away by the family’s paternal grandmother nearly 40 years ago have finally been reunited with their son.

South Korea

Adopted Korean competitive eater finds brother she never knew using DNA

Raised in America, Mary Bowers and the brother she recently met for the first time are on a mission to uncover the truth behind their adoptions in South Korea and track down their biological parents.

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China society

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Epic search as China boy lost 3 decades ago, adopted by foreigners, finds parents

The story of a lost boy in China who was adopted aged 4 by a Dutch couple and has finally found his birth parents after a 12-year search has moved many people on mainland social media.

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The Philippines

Philippines flags ‘worrisome trend’ of sale of children through social media

The country’s social welfare agency has found Facebook pages involved in the sale of children, with some being peddled by their parents themselves.

Asia

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‘Exotic’ Pakistani woman adopted by Chinese couple as baby dazzles mainlanders

A young Pakistani woman with Chinese parents is causing a stir on mainland social media over the contrast between her stunning looks that are so different from those around her in rural China, and her ability to speak the local dialect.

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Greece

No longer invisible, Greek same-sex couples await landmark law

Opinion polls indicate most Greeks support same-sex marriage but oppose surrogacy, even as the issues remain strong taboos for a large part of society.

Hong Kong society

Hong Kong woman adopted as baby hunts for biological family after almost 60 years

Lam Sui-fun, 68, said Hong Kong Red Cross helped her to start process of tracing biological family last year.

South Korea

Children for sale: inside South Korea’s dark past as the West’s ‘baby farm’

More than 170,000 South Korean children were adopted by Western families in the turbulent post-war period. Many were labelled ‘orphans’, only to discover their birth parents still very much alive decades later.

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Uma Feed is just one of the more than 170,000 South Korean children who were adopted by families in West in the years following the Korean war. Photo: Aleksander Solum
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Video | South Korea’s ‘children for sale’ unlock a dark past

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Americas and the Caribbean

‘I’ve cried oceans’: son stolen at birth 42 years ago hugs mum for first time

Jimmy Lippert Thyden was born prematurely at a hospital in Santiago and his mother was told he had died, but he was among tens of thousands of babies taken from poor Chilean families in the 1970s and 1980s.

Thailand

US YouTuber’s shocking Thai adoption controversy resurfaces on TikTok

Nikki Phillippi and her husband Dan had hoped to adopt a child from Thailand in 2018, but changed their minds after they found out that they wouldn’t be allowed to use the kid to make social media content.

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