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A Japanese baby born to a surrogate Indian mother faces anuncertain future after her parents divorced. Anjana Pasrichareports from New Delhi on the legal
hassles that confront the 12-day-old girl and her father.
The Japanese baby was born in Western Gujarat state on July 25 to asurrogate Indian mother. Under normal circumstances she would havebeen adopted by her biological parents as required under Indianlaw, and taken away by them.
But the little girl, named Manji, has not been able to make thejourney home with her parents. Instead she has landed in a hospitalin another Indian city, Jaipur, where her paternal grandmother ishelping doctors look after her.
The reason: Her biological parents divorced in the months aftersigning a surrogacy agreement. The mother, according to reports,does not want the baby.
Manji's father, Ikufumi Yamada, say he wanted to take custody ofthe child after she was born, but was unable to do so.
Sadhna Arya, a gynecologist at the Arya hospital in Jaipur wherethe baby is kept, explains why."When he came here, single parent, to claim the child, they did notgive the child to the father. The father could not get thepassport, because the passport of a neonate, that is a new bornchild is made on the mother's passport. Since there was no mother,they could not give her a passport," said Arya.
An Indian friend of the baby's father helped bring her to Jaipur,where she was admitted to the Arya hospital after developing aninfection.
But doctors at the hospital say they don't know where she will gonext, or how she will leave India. Lawyers say a major legalcomplication confronting the father is an Indian
law that prohibits single men from adopting children.
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You don't talk about the brand in itself and still build yourbrand. You reach out to a segment, which is not primarily yourtarget group and yet promote your brand.
Hyperbole? Not at least if one goes by what Samsung India, an armof the $ 103.4 billion global leader in semiconductors,telecommunications, digital media and digital convergencetechnologies  Samsung Electronics, is doing riding on the Olympicswave.
Samsung India is organising a Samsung Olympic Games Quest, afirst-ever quiz contest on the Olympics for schools across thecountry, in association with The Times of India group.
Samsung India is the sponsor of the Indian team for the forthcomingBeijing Olympics and also a Worldwide Olympic Partner. "Samsung'sassociation with the Olympics is helping the brand gain recognitionglobally and in India too through indirect brand building," said HBLee, president and chief executive officer, Samsung - South WestAsia Regional Headquarters.
"A leading producer of digital TVs, memory chips, mobile phones andTFT LCDs (thin-film transistor liquid crystal displays), Samsung isalready recognised as one of the fastest growing global brands.Sumsung India is seeking to strengthen the Olympics movement inIndia by organising the Samsung Olympic Games Quest in India." Leesaid.
"We believe that this national-level quiz will provide the childrenparticipating an opportunity to learn and develop more interest inthe Olympics and at the same time build more support for the Indianteam to the Olympic Games," Lee added.
Samsung India had also set up a Samsung Scholarship Programme tosupport top Indian athletes for their training expenses for a yearbetween October 2007 and September 2008 as they prepare for theOlympic Games. The Indian athletes selected for programme have beenidentified as Samsung Olympic Ratnas. Under the programme, Samsunghas been and will be providing scholarship support and relatedmarketing/advertising services.
"And going beyond advertising, our effort has been in the directionof supporting the Indian team and players, generating interestaround the Olympics and strengthening the Olympic movement," said aSamsung India spokesperson.
Samsung's quiz competition kicked off in Kolkata on July 22 andwill eventually also be held in Bangalore, Mumbai and Delhi.
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The King County Medical Examiner's Office is confident noinvestigations were compromised by an investigator who is facingcharges of stealing drugs from the dead.
Thomas Chapin was a veteran ME's death investigator whose jobincluded collecting bodies of the deceased and drugs at deathscenes that could help a pathologist determine how and why someonedied.
Chapin has been charged with stealing narcotics, includingoxycodone and methamphetamines, and has been charged withpossession of the drugs in King County District Court.Investigators say they believe the thefts began shortly afterChapin was hired in November 2002 and continued undiscovered forabout five years.
James Apa, spokesman for Seattle and King County Public Health,which oversees the medical examiner's office, did not know how manycases Chapin has been involved with but said the office conducted2,119 investigations in 2006. Chapin has been with the office fornearly six years and there are 11 other death investigators.
The Medical Examiner's Office does not plan on reviewing any casesChapin worked on, Apa said. Chapin is cooperating withinvestigators "and he gave no indication that what he did wouldhave jeopardized any investigation," Apa said.
"If we felt that it had, then we would be looking into it," headded.
Medication collected as evidence plays a limited role indetermining a cause of death, Apa said.
When drugs are collected and brought to the Medical Examiner'sOffice, it serves more to guide pathologists during an autopsy,said Donald Reay, retired King County chief medical examiner.
"It's nice to know what medications were present at the scene, butin terms of drawing a conclusion, it depends on an autopsy," whichis performed by a forensic pathologist, Reay said.
Often a pathologist will verify that drugs found at a scene arewhat were brought in as evidence. Because of this, the number ofmedications stored as proof is less significant than ensuring thecorrect drug was collected.
This is probably one reason Chapin's alleged thefts wentundiscovered for so long, said Gareth Johnson, manager of theprevention division for Seattle and King County public health.Chapin was smart enough to leave some pills when he allegedlystole, Johnson said.
There was one alleged instance where Chapin did steal all of amedication collected as evidence. Apa could not provide specifics,but Johnson guessed Chapin took them after an autopsy, when apathologist would have checked drugs collected as evidence.
The King County Medical Examiner's Office is working on terminatingChapin's employment. His arraignment is scheduled for Aug.
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