2017 Miss Universe Vietnam winner H'Hen Nie talking to the media during an interview in Ho Chi Minh city. - AFP
HO CHIH MINH CITY, Oct 4 (AFP): Skin-whitening, child marriage, a curtailed education: Vietnamese model and literacy campaigner H'Hen Nie has defied traditional expectations laid on her -- and is now determined to show the next generation a different way.
The 2017 Miss Universe Vietnam winner, who hails from the Ede ethnic minority group in the Central Highlands, was 14 years old when her farmer mother suggested she find a husband.
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