Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/01/08
By: Wang Jing-yi and Jay Chen

Taipei, Jan. 8 (CNA) Vietnamese actress Nguyen Thanh Dao (阮菁桃) on Sunday shocked her fans but also elicited sympathy when she admitted to having lied about her marital status, place of birth and academic record.

Nguyen, better known in Taiwan by her stage name Helen Thanh Dao (海倫清桃), called a press conference in Taipei, at which she introduced a Taiwanese man named Tai Fa-kuei (戴發奎) as her husband.

Until now, Nguyen had presented herself as a single, 33-year-old Taiwanese-Vietnamese, who was born in Taiwan’s eastern county of Hualien.

But at Sunday’s press conference, Tai told reporters that, in fact, Nguyen was born in Vietnam and had married him 18 years ago when she was 22.    [FULL  STORY]