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Thanh Nien Hunts For US Billionaire’s Long-Lost Vietnamese Son

A Thanh Nien program that seeks to track down associates and dear ones from the past has found the identity of a boy who was almost adopted by a US billionaire 30 years ago but not his whereabouts.Lawyers for the wealthy woman who wishes to remain anonymous sought Thanh Nien’s help to track down a person she had been trying to adopt in central Vietnam’s Da Nang city circa 1975 when he was five or six years old. Her adoption efforts were thwarted when the war ended in 1975 and she lost contact.They said his name was Nhi and the only identification they have of him are an old picture and a surgery mark across his navel.When Thanh Nien posted the information, five came forward claiming to be the person. After elimination, one possible candidate remained.Truong Minh Dung, now 38, said he did not know anything about his biological parents. He only knew he had been adopted from Da Nang. On his belly is a scar, a legacy of an operation to remove liver stones.His face too seems to resemble that of the boy in the picture. But while Thanh Nien was considering employing experts to analyze the photograph, another clue turned up to eliminate Dung.An 82-year-old catholic priest sent an email to the newspaper saying he knew about this boy. Thanh Nien replied asking for an appointment but never heard back from him.Thanh Nien then approached Teresa Nguyen Thi Thoi, an old Da Nang nun who managed to look up information on orphans adopted over the years by Thanh Tam Sao Bien Orphanage.Old files showed that in August 1972 it took in a boy named Nguyen Van Nhi, born 1966, and his younger sister.Other nuns told Thanh Nien they remembered him being operated on for an intestinal infection. They had recommended him to an American woman for adoption but as the paperwork was being done Vietnam was reunited in 1975 and the adoption process stalled.Thanh Nien succeeded in tracking down Nhi’s sister Nguyen Thi Hong who is now married and lives in Da Nang.Hong said their father had been a guerrilla who died in action in Quang Nam and their mother, shortly before her death in 1972, had put her and Nhi in the orphanage.She also remembered her brother being adopted by an American woman who had regularly sent them gifts.But in 1975 Nhi lost contact with the woman and the next year a Vietnamese family in Dong Nai province in the south adopted them.But life was harsh as they were forced to work all day long and, two years later, she fled to her old orphanage, leaving her brother behind.Later, when she tried to contact him, he had already run away from the adopted home.It was not until 2000 that the two met again. Hong said Nhi had traveled from Ho Chi Minh City, where he was a motorbike repairman living with a wife and daughter, to search for her.She later borrowed two taels of gold to give him for starting business. Strangely, she lost contact with him again.“I cannot say if my brother is dead or alive now. I am very worried,” she told Thanh Nien.The search for Nhi is being done through the Nhu Chua He Co Cuoc Chi Ly (as if there were no adieus) program. Its contact address is timnguoithan@thanhnien.vn.A singer has applied asking to locate her nursery teacher and a childhood friend; a veteran has asked to meet his sympathetic superior from the war; a father is searching for his son who ran away from home.

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