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Gay man wins right to adopt surrogate son

While Singapore is affluent and modern in many ways, attitudes towards homosexuality are routinely criticised as outdated. [AFP/File / Roslan RAHMAN]

A gay Singaporean man Monday won the right to adopt a child he fathered via a surrogate in the United States, in a landmark court ruling for the conservative city-state.

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