Pax Thien, 3, and actress' 5-year-old son getting along
well, report says
HANOI, Vietnam - Hollywood star Angelina Jolie finalized the
adoption of a Vietnamese orphan Tuesday, adding a fourth child to
her family, according to the U.S.-based adoption agency that
organized the process.
Jolie has remained out of public view since arriving in southern Ho
Chi Minh City on March 14 to pick up the 3½-year-old boy from an
orphanage and traveling to Hanoi on Monday to complete the
adoption.
The boys birth name is Pham Quang Sang, but Jolie has renamed him
Pax Thien Jolie, a name that combines the Latin word for peace and
the Vietnamese word for sky or heaven.
The Vietnamese authorities had already cleared the adoption, and
the U.S. Embassy approved the adoption on Tuesday, said
spokeswoman Laura Feragen on behalf of Philadelphia-based nonprofit
agency Adoptions From the Heart.
They will pick up Paxs visa on Wednesday, and they are free to go
home, she said.
Oscar-winner Jolie, 31, traveled to Vietnam with 5-year-old son
Maddox, who was adopted from Cambodia, and 2-year-old sister
Zahara, adopted from Ethiopia.
She also has a biological child, Shiloh Nouvel, with actor and
companion Brad Pitt.
An online newspaper Tuesday reported that as Jolie finalized the
paperwork, her adopted sons played in the lobby of the historic
luxury Metropole Hotel in Hanoi.
Maddox and Sang played in the lobby, and they seemed to get along
really well, the online VNExpress quoted an unidentified hotel
staff member as saying. They dont understand each others
language, but they used sign language to communicate.
Jolie, her family and their assistants arrived in Hanoi on Monday
and checked into the white facade Metropole Hotel, which opened
during French colonial rule in 1901. It has rooms named for Charlie
Chaplin and the English author Graham Greene.
During Tuesdays lunch hour, a silver minivan with darkened windows
thought to be carrying Jolie drove quickly into the Rose Garden
Tower, one of two U.S. embassy buildings in the Vietnamese capital.
The vehicle left about 35 minutes later.
Security in front of the embassy increased noticeably before the
vehicle arrived.
U.S. officials declined comment on Jolies adoption, saying it was
a private matter.
