Pregnant pause for surrogate mums

       Taiwan has warned a Thai surrogate company against seeking infertileparent clients in Taiwan, where the law bans using surrogate mothers to produce babies.
       Wu Hsiu-ying, an official from the Council of Agriculture, told the Taiwanese edition of Apple Daily doctors who introduce infertile parents to a foreign surrogate mother company face losing their licence and fines of up to NT$250,000(260,000 baht).)
       "Taiwan has not passed the surrogate mother bill," she told the Apple Daily ."So if a doctor arranges a surrogate mother for infertile parents here, he or she could lose their doctor's licence."
       AnApple Daily reporter, posing as a client, contacted the headquarters of a Bangkok firm, Baby 101, about the service. The reporter said he was told it would charge US$50,000(1.7 million baht) for the service.
       The surrogate mothers, who were re-portedly Vietnamese, live in a dormitory 20 minutes' drive from Bangkok.
       Baby 101 has been advertising to potential Taiwan clients through a Chineselanguage ad on the internet.
       The ad lists Baby 101's headquarters'telephone number in Bangkok, and its branch company's telephone number in Phnom Penh.
       An estimated one of every seven Taiwan couples is incapable of bearing children, the Apple Daily reported.