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Thailand repatriated five pregnant Vietnamese women and five babies yesterday after freeing them from a Taiwanese gang which forced them to be surrogate mothers to Taiwanese customers.
The five are among 15 Vietnamese women liberated during a police raid on Taiwanese-run Baby 101 Co in the Thararom housing estate on Ramkhamhaeng Road in February.
Four of them gave birth to five babies - two of them twins, five others are pregnant, and another six women were not. The latter group was sent back to Vietnam on May 13.
The babies to be delivered by the five surrogate women will be taken care of by the Vietnamese government, according to the Public Health Ministry. The women had earlier wanted to seek abortions but changed their minds.
Social Development and Human Security Minister Issara Somchai saw them off at Suvarnabhumi airport yesterday before he left on a separate plane to Vietnam to discuss human trafficking prevention with the Vietnamese minister of Public Security.
Mr Issara said children who were born to the surrogate mothers in Thailand would not receive Thai nationality because...
The five are among 15 Vietnamese women liberated during a police raid on Taiwanese-run Baby 101 Co in the Thararom housing estate on Ramkhamhaeng Road in February.
Four of them gave birth to five babies - two of them twins, five others are pregnant, and another six women were not. The latter group was sent back to Vietnam on May 13.
The babies to be delivered by the five surrogate women will be taken care of by the Vietnamese government, according to the Public Health Ministry. The women had earlier wanted to seek abortions but changed their minds.
Social Development and Human Security Minister Issara Somchai saw them off at Suvarnabhumi airport yesterday before he left on a separate plane to Vietnam to discuss human trafficking prevention with the Vietnamese minister of Public Security.
Mr Issara said children who were born to the surrogate mothers in Thailand would not receive Thai nationality because...