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Mai Thi Ben, 59, was informed by police that she had the exact same face as another woman in Phu Yen, who lives about 175 kilometers away. Police of Binh Dinh’s Hoai Nhon Town on Thursday said they were cooperating with police of Phu Yen’s Tuy An District to help Ben reunite with C, her long-lost twin sister. Previously on Monday, police of Hoai Nhon informed Ben she could not have an ID card made since her face matched that of C, who got her card back in March. Thinking they may be twins, police visited Ben’s home, while requesting police of Tuy An District to contact the other woman. Both were later confirmed as twins. Ben said her family was poor, so her parents had sent her to live with a relative in Binh Dinh when she was 5-6 years old. When she was 7-8 (in 1971), Ben tried to return home in Phu Yen. She got lost along National Highway 1, and a woman who sold rice paper took her home. After simultaneously working and studying, she got married at 18. Ben said she missed … [Read more...] about Long-lost twins reconnect after 47 years through ID card registry

Twin sisters, separated 47 years ago, have been reunited in the most unusual of ways. Police in Bình Định Province help reunited twin sisters while handling documents for citizen identification cards. — Photo dantri.com.vn They only found each other again after applying for citizen identification cards. According to the local police in Hoài Nhơn Township, Bình Định Province, the unit received an application for a card for a woman named Mai Thị Bền, living in Hoài Châu Bắc Commune. Colonel Võ Văn Thạnh, head of Hoài Nhơn township's police department, said that when processing Bền's image, the computer could not load it because her face was too similar to that of another citizen in Phú Yên Province. The police spoke to Bền, who disclosed that she lost her family when she was 11 years old and was instead raised by a couple in Hoài Châu Bắc Commune. Bền could remember that she had a twin sister, but hasn't known where she is. She had been trying to find her … [Read more...] about Twin sisters reunited after 47 years thanks to citizen ID cards

Duyên defends title, set weightlifting record Thais dominate women’s table tennis Loan wins gold in standard Chinese chess Tiến Minh makes men's badminton semi VN, Thailand, Indonesia win canoe golds Lê Tuấn Minh celebrates his gold medal in the men's blitz chess event on May 20. — VNA/VNS Photo Thanh Vân Thanh Nga QUẢNG NINH — Vietnamese chess players brought home two more gold medals in the blitz chess category on May 20. In the men's blitz, Lê Tuấn Minh outstandingly defeated Lê Quang Liêm in the Vietnamese-all final match to take gold. Both Minh and Liêm were in good form in the semi-finals to beat Megaranto Susanto of Indonesia and Tin Yingjao of Singapore, respectively. In the first game of the final, Minh played very firmly with the black pieces to draw with Liêm. In the second game, the Hanoian took advantage of the white pieces to attack and win. This helped Minh win his second gold medal at the SEA Games 31, after grabbing … [Read more...] about Việt Nam win two golds in blitz chess