Commercial surrogacy is illegal in Thailand, Laos and Cambodia. It is also worth an estimated US$15 billion a year
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As the car bounces along a rural Thai road, a baby just a few months old watches the emerald green countryside rush by from Nicha’s* lap, oblivious to the countdown that has already begun.
Soon the child will be handed over to her father to be raised in
For Cai, a trader in Shenzhen’s vast Huaqiangbei electronics hub, the business of assembling computers for gamers and corporate clients has suddenly become dramatically more expensive.
“Right now, memory and SSDs are the biggest cost drivers in a personal computer build,” Cai said, referring to solid-state drives – devices that can store data on a computer at high speed.
The memory supply squeeze is forcing vendors in Huaqiangbei to introduce significant price increases, which are putting off buyers, according to Cai. Only customers with
After 16 years, Li Zhijian and his wife Peng Hongying have finally found a measure of closure in their long pursuit of justice over a medical blunder that left their son paralysed for life in Hong Kong.
But the mainland Chinese couple said their fight for accountability was far from over, despite a ruling by the city’s medical watchdog that found a paediatrician guilty of professional misconduct in his care of their son, Li Yuanjian.
“We can only say that we can accept it, and we can find some closure
Analysts say the Torifune fly-by highlights Tokyo’s growing role in global space safety efforts and its ‘goodwill science’ policy
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More than 2,800 flights were likely to be cancelled by Chinese airlines as of 8
Previous solutions have failed to rein in the problem, but the government is hoping that the threat of massive fines may finally free ticket seekers from
However, lawmakers and military analysts say the growth is driven more by government pay rises than by any apparent shift in young people’s attitudes towards military service.
Last year, 42.7 million foreign visitors arrived in the country, a record that shattered the previous year’s high by nearly 16 per cent. Now Tokyo wants to turn that surge into something more lasting: a permanent
Tang Meng Kit is a Singaporean freelance analyst and commentator who works as an aerospace engineer.
Last month, China Eastern ordered 25 A330neo jets from Airbus, which come at a catalogue price of US$9.35 billion. The airline, which operates the inaugural commercial routes of the C919, China’s home-grown passenger jet, had placed another Airbus order just three months earlier.