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The findings have raised concerns about whether local organisations arranging interracial adoptions place enough emphasis on preliminary guidance for interested parents.

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When Connie Wat Hong-ying and her husband Philip Cheng told their families six years ago that they wanted to adopt, her parents and in-laws baulked. Both sides wanted the couple to have children...

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It is invariably able-bodied youngsters who find a home with a local family, adoption agencies say.

Those with special needs often languish in the adoption pool, and grow up in...

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14 May 2011

About 10 years ago, I was at the US consulate in Guangzhou arranging for a visa when I saw many Americans in the queue holding Chinese babies and doing the same. Some of those babies looked...

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In the past month, a controversial French charity has hit the headlines over its bid to bring 103 children out of Chad to France for adoption.

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Digging to America


by Anne Tyler


Chatto & Windus, $195

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As the parent of a boy adopted here in Hong Kong, I was taken aback by your article headlined, 'Tougher adoption rules' (Sunday Morning Post, April 21), on several counts.

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