PHNOM PENH: Peeling a mango inside her rickety wooden shack, Chhum Long explains how her daughter’s decision to nurture a Western couple’s baby in her womb helped her family buy two desperately needed items: a metal roof and a motorbike.
Last year a broker appeared outside the 60-year-old’s house in Cambodia’s southern Takeo province and offered her daughter US$10,000 (RM42,000) to be a surrogate mother for a wealthy foreign couple.
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