Vietnam arrests two suspects in baby-selling scam
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Police in Vietnam have arrested the heads of two health centres suspected of being involved in trafficking of babies.
The two from the northern Nam Dinh province, allegedly issued fake birth certificates.
The arrests come three months after the United States embassy in Hanoi claimed baby-selling and graft in the adoptions system was endemic.
The US probe claims some American adoption agencies paid $US10,000-dollar "donations" per child to orphanages after officials forged birth certificates and wrongly identified the infants as abandoned.
The report has led to Vietnam suspending a bilateral adoption agreement.
