Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie visit Vietnam orphans

HANOI, Nov 25 (Reuters) Hollywood superstars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie doled out candies and toys during a surprise visit to an orphanage in southern Vietnam, a state-run newspaper said today.

The couple went to Tam Binh orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City and had lunch there yesterday, the director of the charity facility told the Saigon Giai Phong (Liberation Saigon) daily.

Newspapers, which ran front-page photos yesterday of Pitt and Jolie riding a scooter in the city, said today their photographers had been unable to capture any shot of the couple on their second day in town.

The two arrived in Vietnam on Thursday during what appeared to be a break from filming ''A Mighty Heart'' in India, where they have been mobbed by fans and stirred a media frenzy.

The film stars Jolie as the wife of US journalist Daniel Pearl, who was abducted and murdered by Islamic militants in Pakistan in 2002. Pitt is the producer.

State newspapers said the couple flew into Vietnam on Thursday from Cambodia, birthplace of their adopted son Maddox.

That night they dined at a Vietnamese restaurant. One newspaper said they would leave Vietnam today.

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