<p> A Singaporean couple who allegedly dumped a newborn baby in the trash during a trip to Taipei two years ago have been placed on Taiwan's wanted list on suspicion of murder, prosecutors said Wednesday.</p>.<p>The couple allegedly left the baby girl with placenta and umbilical cord still attached in a recycling bin in the capital in February 2019.</p>.<p>A recycling company employee later found the girl's body wrapped in a garbage bag.</p>.<p>Prosecutors told AFP that Li Heng Xun, 25, and Evon Kay Pei Yee, 26, were both being sought for murder and a charge of abandonment.</p>.<p>Singaporean media had given a slightly different spelling for the man's name, referring to him as Heng Xunli.</p>.<p>Taiwan sometimes faces difficulties in pressing extradition requests, because many countries do not treat it as a sovereign nation -- especially those with close links to China, which regards the island as part of its territory.</p>.<p>On Wednesday, Taiwan's Apple Daily reported that Singaporean authorities had refused multiple requests to provide the couple's DNA samples citing "inconvenience due to the coronavirus pandemic".</p>.<p>Prosecutors declined to comment on that report when contacted by AFP.</p>.<p>The case bears some resemblance to that of a Hong Kong man who is wanted in Taiwan for the murder of his pregnant girlfriend.</p>.<p>Chan Tong-kai has admitted killing his girlfriend in a Taipei hotel room during a Valentine's holiday to the city in February 2018.</p>.<p>Currently in Hong Kong, he has expressed a willingness to surrender himself.</p>.<p>But he remains free as Taiwan and Hong Kong argue over the handling of his case.</p>.<p>That murder inadvertently led to the huge democracy protests that swept through Hong Kong in 2019 over a now-scrapped bill to allow extraditions to mainland China.</p>.<p>Taiwanese media reported that the Singaporean couple were believed to have dumped the girl's body seven days after they arrived in Taiwan.</p>.<p>They then flew back to Singapore the same day.</p>.<p>Local media has aired CCTV footage of a man carrying a black plastic bag walking in an alley and a pregnant woman in a convenience store, identifying them as the two Singaporeans.</p>.<p>Police reportedly found blood traces in the bathroom of their hotel room that matched the baby's.</p>
<p> A Singaporean couple who allegedly dumped a newborn baby in the trash during a trip to Taipei two years ago have been placed on Taiwan's wanted list on suspicion of murder, prosecutors said Wednesday.</p>.<p>The couple allegedly left the baby girl with placenta and umbilical cord still attached in a recycling bin in the capital in February 2019.</p>.<p>A recycling company employee later found the girl's body wrapped in a garbage bag.</p>.<p>Prosecutors told AFP that Li Heng Xun, 25, and Evon Kay Pei Yee, 26, were both being sought for murder and a charge of abandonment.</p>.<p>Singaporean media had given a slightly different spelling for the man's name, referring to him as Heng Xunli.</p>.<p>Taiwan sometimes faces difficulties in pressing extradition requests, because many countries do not treat it as a sovereign nation -- especially those with close links to China, which regards the island as part of its territory.</p>.<p>On Wednesday, Taiwan's Apple Daily reported that Singaporean authorities had refused multiple requests to provide the couple's DNA samples citing "inconvenience due to the coronavirus pandemic".</p>.<p>Prosecutors declined to comment on that report when contacted by AFP.</p>.<p>The case bears some resemblance to that of a Hong Kong man who is wanted in Taiwan for the murder of his pregnant girlfriend.</p>.<p>Chan Tong-kai has admitted killing his girlfriend in a Taipei hotel room during a Valentine's holiday to the city in February 2018.</p>.<p>Currently in Hong Kong, he has expressed a willingness to surrender himself.</p>.<p>But he remains free as Taiwan and Hong Kong argue over the handling of his case.</p>.<p>That murder inadvertently led to the huge democracy protests that swept through Hong Kong in 2019 over a now-scrapped bill to allow extraditions to mainland China.</p>.<p>Taiwanese media reported that the Singaporean couple were believed to have dumped the girl's body seven days after they arrived in Taiwan.</p>.<p>They then flew back to Singapore the same day.</p>.<p>Local media has aired CCTV footage of a man carrying a black plastic bag walking in an alley and a pregnant woman in a convenience store, identifying them as the two Singaporeans.</p>.<p>Police reportedly found blood traces in the bathroom of their hotel room that matched the baby's.</p>