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Babies given Australian passports 'on basis of false documents'
Cambodian police say their investigations have revealed that surrogate mothers were already married and there is no evidence they married Australians.
Lindsay Murdoch is a three-time winner of the Walkley Award, Australia's top award for journalistic excellence. Lindsay is a former correspondent based in Singapore, Jakarta and Darwin. In 1999 he covered the tumultuous events in East Timor, and in 2003 he covered the Iraq war while embedded with US Marines.
Cambodian police say their investigations have revealed that surrogate mothers were already married and there is no evidence they married Australians.
Hour Vanny couldn't feel the caesarean section, but she knew the baby had arrived when she heard a cry.
The Cambodian government has criticised Australia for failing to take some responsibility for an unfolding human tragedy as dozens of surrogate mothers carrying babies for Australian biological parents have gone into hiding.
A surrogacy company run by Australian nurse and fertility specialist Tammy Davis-Charles has been paying poor Cambodian women $US400 ($540) a month to carry babies for foreign biological parents, including Australians.
As many as 70 babies carried by Cambodian women for Australian parents are caught up in the latest crackdown on commercial surrogacy.
An Australian nurse and fertility specialist running a surrogacy clinic in the Cambodian capital could face up to two years' jail.
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Antonio Bagnato, 26, fled after Australian organised crime figure and international drug trafficker Wayne Rodney Schneider was kidnapped and killed last year.
Thai officials and workers in the area are at a loss over the military government's order for the mine to be closed by December 31.
An Australian man wanted in Queensland on kidnapping and torture charges, who has been frequenting bars in the Thai capital for more than two weeks has been arrested.
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