{"id":2246,"date":"2011-04-10T10:02:16","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T10:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.againstchildtrafficking.org\/?p=2246"},"modified":"2011-04-10T10:02:43","modified_gmt":"2011-04-10T10:02:43","slug":"y-girl-may-be-stuck-in-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/y-girl-may-be-stuck-in-vietnam\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby girl may be stuck in Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source:http:\/\/news.asiaone.com<\/a>\u00a0
\nSat, Apr 09, 2011
\nBy Desmond Ng<\/p>\n

HE WANTED a baby with his Vietnamese wife.<\/p>\n

But the 55-year-old Singaporean thought he was old and didn’t want any “medical issues”.<\/p>\n

So he turned to adopting a baby in Vietnam.<\/p>\n

All was going according to plan, until now.<\/p>\n

Mr YH Yap, has just found out that there’s a law that may prevent his baby girl from leaving for Singapore.<\/p>\n

The businessman claimed to have all the paperwork approved by the authorities in Vietnam.<\/p>\n

But he and his agent were not aware of a recent law passed there last June, which came into effect in January.<\/p>\n

Under this law, foreign couples can adopt from Vietnam only if their home country has entered into an agreement on child adoption with Vietnam, according to Vietnam’s Justice Ministry’s website.<\/p>\n

The New Paper has not been able to find any such agreement between Singapore and Vietnam.<\/p>\n

The law came about after increasing reports of the lucrative illegal trade of Vietnamese children.<\/p>\n

When told of this, Mr Yap said: “If for some reason, the application is not approved, it’s okay.<\/p>\n

“I will leave the baby there because we’ve relatives there. We can always raise her in Vietnam.”<\/p>\n

His agent, Mr Mark Lin of Vietnam Brides International Matchmaker – which used to matchmake local men with Vietnamese women – said he consulted a lawyer in Vietnam last month about adopting babies there.<\/p>\n

He said his lawyer assured him that it’s not an issue if the prospective couple can get approval from the Vietnam government for the adoption.<\/p>\n

Mr Yap adopted the baby in Vietnam four months ago.<\/p>\n

Coincidentally, it was through Mr Lin’s agency that Mr Yap was introduced to his Vietnamese wife, 18, four years ago.<\/p>\n

On why he decided to adopt, he said: “Since my wife is Vietnamese, it makes sense to adopt a Vietnamese baby.”<\/p>\n

He has three other children, all undergraduates, from a previous marriage.<\/p>\n

He’s divorced from his first wife.<\/p>\n

Mr Yap said that the Vietnamese couple – who gave up their baby when she was two weeks old – are unmarried undergraduates in their 20s.<\/p>\n

Mr Yap’s wife is currently in Vietnam taking care of the baby with her family.<\/p>\n

They’ve named the baby girl Hui Jin.<\/p>\n

The Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) said that prospective adopters are advised to consult their legal counsel on the laws in Vietnam before they consider adopting a Vietnamese child.
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Source:http:\/\/news.asiaone.com\u00a0 Sat, Apr 09, 2011 By Desmond Ng HE WANTED a baby with his Vietnamese wife. But the 55-year-old Singaporean thought he was old and didn’t want any “medical issues”. So he turned to adopting a baby in Vietnam. All was going according to plan, until now. Mr YH Yap, has just found out that… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2248,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246\/revisions\/2248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}