Asian Adult Adoptee Gathering & Film Festival – Registration opens Saturday!

Aloha! Get ready to register for the Asian Adult Adoptee Gathering & Film Festival, presented by Korean Adoptees of Hawai’i this October 10-13 in Honolulu! All transnational and domestic adult adoptees (age 18+) of Asian and mixed Asian heritage are invited to attend this international event – the first of its kind to be hosted [...]

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G.O.A.L: Movement to make Dual Citizenship Available!!!

Hi all, G.O.A.’L has officially launched the Dual Citizenship Campaign. Here are all the links to the documents you can download: Pressrelease in English: http://www.goal.or.kr/docs/dual_citizenship_2008.pdf Signsheet in English: http://www.goal.or.kr/docs/dual_citizenship_signsheet.pdf Info Package in English: http://www.goal.or.kr/docs/ds2008_info_package.pdf Please feel free to distribute these documents to all those who might be interested. Anyone can sign this petition, not only [...]

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Người Việt, Jami Farkas and Unfollowed Follow-ups

Timeline in Brief: Dec 20, 2007 A New Family Dec 26, 2007 Preparing and Waiting Jan 3, 2008 Across the Miles Jan 11, 2008 Aftermath of adoption: adjusting to the culture Jan 13, 2008 Sent letter to the editor expressing our concerns about the series. Jan 14, 2008 Kevin receives reply from Anh Do requesting [...]

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The Adoption Show Sunday May 25, 2008 Kali Coultas & Kevin Minh Allen

NEXT SHOW Sunday May 25, 2008 9:00 PM (EST) www.theadoptionshow.com ANGRATE ACTION ALERTS with KALI COULTAS Kali talks with Kevin Minh Allen about current and past adoption practices in Vietnam. Few know or understand what’s going on in Vietnam, such as its 42 operating adoption agencies. What’s disturbing, but not surprising, is that no one [...]

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Adoptees say local adoption system not free from irregularities

혻혻 By Kim Young-gyo SEOUL, May 14 (Yonhap) — Following recent allegations of irregularities in international adoptions from Vietnam, Korean adoptees said Wednesday South Korea’s adoption system has also had serious problems. 혻혻 “Earlier signals about trafficking from Vietnam … has significant comparisons with those of South Korea in earlier 1970s and 1980s,” said a [...]

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And they just keep getting worse…

Couple Upset Adoption Halted By Vietnam POSTED: 7:56 pm CDT May 7, 2008 UPDATED: 8:10 pm CDT May 7, 2008 OLATHE, Kan. — A disagreement between the United States and Vietnam could devastate a local couple’s adoption plan. Heidi Fenton has a closet full of baby girl clothes. She and her husband have been trying [...]

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