Surrogate mothers-for-hire, Chinese man arrested in BangkokWomen hired to be surrogate mothers are ushered into a police van following a raid on a house in Bangkok's Lat Prao district shortly before dawn on Thursday. Five women and a Chinese man were arrested. (Photo by Wassayos Ngamkham)Five Thai women paid to be illegal surrogate mothers and a Chinese man were arrested at a large house in Bangkok during a series of police raids on Thursday morning. The raids followed a police investigation into a group of Chinese nationals they learned hired Thai women as surrogate mothers, which is illegal. At a large house on Nakniwas Road in Lat Phrao district of Bangkok, they found six Thai women, a 30-month-old baby boy and a Chinese man.

Source: Bangkok Post February 13, 2020 06:38 UTC