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...whom the world would know as Pax Thien Jolie was brought to the Tam Binh orphanage when he was one month old after being abandoned by his mother at Tu Du obstretics hospital in Ho Chi Minh City. "His mother gave birth and left immediately," said Nguyen Van Trung, director of orphanage. Hospital authorities put up notices and tried to search for the mother for 30 days but no one showed up. So he was placed in the orphanage, which was provided with a police report of attempts to find his birth parents, as is standard practice in Vietnam...
...first things you notice when you walk into the Tam Binh orphanage's reception area is a shrine on the back wall with a large, gold-colored bust of Ho Chi Minh, communist Vietnam's founding father, with a golden hammer-and-sickle hung on the wall behind him. But in a corner across from Uncle Ho's bust, there is a more discreet homage: a photo-copy of a Vietnamese magazine spread featuring Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt taped to the wall next to one of the office's three wooden desks. The article features photos from the couple...
...Binh orphanage is next to national highway 1A, a busy thoroughfare on the northern outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon). But it is fairly quiet once you are within the grounds. The reception area has faded light-blue walls that look like they are about five years overdue for repainting. A pleasant tree-shaded garden is filled with primary-colored playground equipment of the kind you'd see pretty much anywhere in the West - slides, a plastic jungle gym, spring-loaded hobby-horses shaped like ducks and rabbits. The children's dormitories are further to the left...
...Hollywood star completed adoption procedures for Pax, a 3-year-old Vietnamese boy, in Ho Chi Minh City on Thursday morning after picking him up from the orphanage she and Pitt visited during a trip last November. Jolie adopted the boy as a single parent because Vietnam's adoption regulations don't allow unmarried couples to co-adopt. Her new son joins 5-year-old brother Maddox, adopted from Cambodia, sister Zahara, age 2, from Ethiopia; and baby Shiloh, the couple's biological daughter who was born in Namibia last...
...name - Pax Thien - add up to "peaceful sky" in two languages. Pax means "peace" in Latin and the Vietnamese middle name means "sky." The name change was confirmed by the director of Tam Binh Orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City, where the boy has lived since being abandoned as an infant...