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Orphanage-scandal probe starts

A JOINT work team including family planning, civil affairs personnel, police and Party disciplinary officials are investigating a scandal in which babies were taken from parents and sent overseas for adoption from... ...full story at Shanghai Daily

from Shanghai Daily on Fri, Jul 03 2009

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