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Angelina Jolie visits Vietnam for charity

HANOI, Vietnam, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- U.S. film actress Angelina Jolie spent last week in Vietnam for a meeting on behalf of the Maddox Jolie-Pitt Project, People magazine says.

The project's executive director Stephan Bognar said that he and Jolie were in Vietnam meeting with officials from the International Finance Corp.'s Mekong Private Sector Development Facility, a privately funded World Bank initiative that promotes economic development in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, People reported.

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The actress attended the meeting as a representative of the project, her charity aiding Cambodia.

Jolie is reportedly interested in a program to get farmers to grow and sell bamboo, increasing their monthly income from $25 to $100-300.

Brad Pitt and Jolie, along with their children Maddox, Zahara and Shiloh were back in New Orleans, where the couple just bought a $3.5 million house, People said.

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