"Even though I am her father I cannot control things that happened when she is out there. "They only say they will support Huong as she is Vietnamese, but did not tell me if she is really a suspect," he told Reuters.
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Vietnamese authorities had been in touch since the arrest, he said. Her father, who fought for the North in the Vietnam War, lost part of his leg in the fighting. Huong only visited occasionally, they said, and she was vague about where she had been.
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I will call and sing for you."įamily members mostly work the rice paddies around their home in Nam Dinh, in the Red River Delta southeast of Hanoi. "Reply the fastest and put your phone number in the comment. "Can I sing you a song tonight?" she wrote in a Facebook post on March 24 last year. The contestant gave Nam Dinh as her home town - the same as Huong's according to passport details from the Malaysian police - but her name was given as Dinh Thi Khuyen.Ī member of the Vietnam Idol casting team declined to comment on the appearance and its spokeswoman did not immediately return a request for comment. The Facebook page belonging to the accused assassin shows her in an 'LOL' shirt. There were no posts after November.Ī woman bearing a close resemblance to Huong sang on the show as contestant number 67816 on June 3, 2016.įacial recognition tools give a match to the pictures released by Malaysian police of Huong in custody. This account was in the name "Bella Tron Tron Bella" - Chubby Bella.
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Huong was described by police as an "entertainment outlet employee", but they did not give details of where she had been employed or what her immigration status was.Īmong the links on another Facebook account, which the family also said featured pictures of Huong, was one to the page of the Vietnam Idol talent show. The estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un died soon afterwards. See also: Malaysia accuses N.Korean embassy in assassination.Malaysian police have said Huong and an Indonesian woman wiped a liquid, containing an as yet unidentified toxic substance, on Kim Jong Nam's face at Kuala Lumpur's budget air terminal on Feb 13. "I want to sleep more but by your side," the post reads above a picture of her, eyes closed and wrapped up in bed. The last post on a Facebook page in the name of "Ruby Ruby", which family members confirmed to be one of Huong's accounts, is dated Feb 11 from Kampong Besut, Malaysia. On a rice farm in northern Vietnam, the family whose daughter's details match those from Malaysian police said it rarely knew where she was since she left home a decade ago aged 18. Many of her 65 Facebook friends are men, including several Koreans.ĭoan Thi Huong worked at an entertainment outlet, according to Malaysian police, who have arrested her over the murder of Kim Jong Nam. "I want to sleep more but by your side," it said above a photo of Huong with closed eyes and short blonde hair. The account's first post was made Dec 14 and the last was Feb 11 from an area near the airport.
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Other photos are selfies taken in Phnom Penh and in Kuala Lumpur, a few days before two women attacked Kim Jong Nam at the city's airport, and rubbed his face with suspected poison. Her profile picture shows Huong wearing a red cut-out swimsuit at a pool. Enhanced video grab from Kuala Lumpur International Airport shows alleged assassin.ĭoan Thi Huong, 28, had posted to Facebook under the name Ruby Ruby, according to her niece, 18-year-old Dinh Thi Quyen.