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Ahn Andersen has spent decades searching for her Korean roots. Photo: David Lee

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

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

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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.

After colleagues joked she did not look like a Henan local, the young woman took a DNA test and uncovered the shocking truth about her adoption. Photo: SCMP composite/Shutterstock

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

A South Korean adoptee in the US who makes a shocking discovery goes searching for her real parents – helping another family on the way.

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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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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Parents with their children walking in the Myeong-dong shopping street in Seoul. Photo: Shutterstock

China ends adoption scheme for foreign families

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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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.

A celebrity manager in Taiwan who has cancer adopts a KOL and gifts his “son” US$9.4 million in return for care. Photo: SCMP composite/Fei Fan Entertainment/IG@dreambreakerz_shaoanzha

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?

Meg Ryan and her daughter Daisy True Ryan at a Schiaparelli Haute Couture show in 2019. Photo: Corbis via Getty Images

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.

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.

Chinese adoptees return from US to seek roots

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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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A PhD student who was separated from his family aged four and was adopted by a Dutch couple has finally been reunited with his birth parents after a 12-year search for them. Photo: SCMP composite/Douyin

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’s LGBT couples face hurdles in starting families

All across Asia, governments are encouraging people to have children, but this rarely extends to LGBT couples.

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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.

A woman of Pakistani descent, who was adopted by a couple from China after they found her abandoned on the street while they worked in the country of her birth, is making major waves on mainland social media. Photo: SCMP composite/Douyin

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 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.

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

South Korea’s ‘children for sale’ unlock a dark past

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‘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.

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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‘Paper orphans’: South Koreans adoptees from US to Europe demand investigations

Almost 400 raised by families overseas have applied to Truth and Reconciliation Commission to look into their adoptions amid claims of falsified documents and identity switching.

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Peter Møller (green jacket), lawyer and co-founder of the Danish Korean Rights Group, attends a press conference with South Korean adoptees in November. Photo: AP

‘I could not say Mum or Dad’: adoption stories in Hong Kong

November 9 is World Adoption Day. Here, we share the stories of some of those who have been touched by adoption, including one Hongkonger adopted aged 15 by a family in the United States.

Meet Hugh Jackman’s wife of 26 years, Deborra-Lee Furness

From her unconventional love story with Hugh Jackman to her work raising awareness for adoption, here’s everything you need to know about Deborra-Lee Furness

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