ANGELINA JOLIE - ANGELINA JOLIE ADOPTS SECOND SON

ANGELINA JOLIE ADOPTS SECOND SON

Actress Angelina Jolie has collected the little boy who is to become her second son from a Vietnamese orphanage.

The Hollywood star arrived in Ho Chi Minh City yesterday to complete the adoption of the youngster, who is believed to be aged between three and four-years-old.

In an early visit to the city's Tam Binh orphanage this morning, Jolie was reportedly greeted by 20 children dressed in traditional Vietnamese tunics as she arrived accompanied by her eldest child, five-year-old Maddox, whom the star adopted from Cambodia in 2002.

Describing the moment the star was left with her new son, the orphanage's director said that the boy had cried when he saw his new family as they were strangers to him.

"Jolie was very moved. Both of them tried to comfort the little boy," Nguyen Van Trung told reporters.

The star subsequently left the orphanage with the latest addition to her brood, who will also become a brother to her daughters, two-year-old Zahara, who was adopted from Ethiopia, and her biological child Shiloh Nouvel, who was born last year to the actress and her partner Brad Pitt.

It is understood that Jolie, who was reportedly driven to Vietnam's justice department to sign adoption papers after collecting her new child, will now have to meet with US consular and embassy officials to seek their final approval before the process of adopting the little boy is complete.

Reports had previously indicated that the Vietnamese authorities had speeded up Jolie's adoption of the youngster, whom officials claim has been re-named Pax Thien Jolie.

The 31-year-old actress apparently filed adoption papers through a US agency last month, without the inclusion of her partner Pitt, as under Vietnamese law unmarried couples are not permitted to adopt.

Meanwhile, it has been reported that the Hollywood couple's biological daughter has made her own acting debut.

Ten-month-old Shiloh Nouvel has apparently taken a cameo role in her father's latest movie, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, playing actress Cate Blanchett as a baby.