An early, warm wet season is being blamed for one of the worst outbreaks of Dengue Fever to hit Cambodia and the rest of SE Asia in recent history.

A British adoptive father, along with other volunteers, set up a UK Registered Charity, The Cambodia Children's... more

There are no few people in and around the international adoption world who feel that corruption in birth countries is so pervasive that adoptions originating in those countries can be nothing but tainted. Many would prefer that adoptions from such places stop until transparent systems can be put in place that would assure total transparency.

There... more

Corruption in the international adoption realm put the brakes on Cambodian adoptions more than six years ago. One person was sent to prison over this, an American woman named Lauren Galindo, and I think I'd be fair in saying this most likely didn't upset corrupt Cambodian officials one little bit.

Banning adoptions hasn't bothered them much either, or at least not enough to pass the anti-corruption legislation other countries... more

How much money and how many lives are lost each year to corruption in governments can only be guessed, but it has to be assumed to massive ... and pervasive. Like the Scarlet Pimpernel, it's here, it's there, it's everywhere, and doing some level of damage to everything it touches.

Corruption put a halt to adoption in Cambodia in 2001 and is widely implicated as an integral aspect of almost all ... more