January 19, 2012
A court in southern Vietnam on Wednesday asked local police to investigate further the murder of a journalist which has drawn a great deal of public and media attention over the past year. Le Quang Hung, deputy chief of Long An Province’s People’s Court said in VnExpress that they would not hold a hearing to [...]
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January 2, 2012
Nguyen Van Khuong, a Tuoi Tre journalist, has been arrested for allegedly giving bribes. Police in Ho Chi Minh City Monday arrested a journalist at Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper on charges of “giving bribes.” Nguyen Van Khuong, 39, who is famous for his articles on traffic police corruption under the penname Hoang Khuong, was allegedly involved in the [...]
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November 11, 2011
In 1989, New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm published her famous essay, “The Journalist and the Murderer,” with its notoriously overheated opening sentence: “Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.” This was back in the era [...]
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September 27, 2011
Australian Journalist Wilfred Burchett (L) in a photo taken in a Vietnam's war zone, and one of his photo depicting Vietnamese children in war-time One-hundred black and white photos from 1954-1966 by legendary journalist Wilfred Burchett are on display in Hanoi to commemorate the Australian photographer’s 100th birthday (1911-1983). Â Ho Chi Minh Museum is [...]
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July 4, 2011
Phan Ha Binh, 42, former deputy managing editor of the Hanoi-based Tien Phong newspaper, faces a jail term of between seven and 15 years on extortion charges. A former journalist standing trial on July 20 for extorting over VND200 million (US$9,722) from a company faces a jail term of between seven and 15 years, the [...]
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February 19, 2011
After a month of innuendo, Long An locals express doubts that an aggressive local reporter died at the hands of his wife The charred bed of reporter Le Hoang Hung of Nguoi Lao Dong (Laborer) newspaper. He died of his wounds on January 29 after being set on fire ten days earlier. On January [...]
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January 1, 2010
Map showing provinces in Afghanistan where five Candians and eight Americans were killed in two separate attacks on Wednesday and Tuesday The CIA vowed on Thursday to avenge the deaths of seven officers in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan and to investigate security breaches that allowed the second deadliest attack in agency history. The Taliban [...]
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July 30, 2009
German publisher “New Life” has published a book by German journalist Hellmut Kapfenberger about President Ho Chi Minh. Vietnamese Ambassador to Germany Do Hoa Binh and journalist Hellmut Kapfenberger. Entitled “Ho Chi Minh”, the 300-page book is a valuable chronicle of Ho Chi Minh. The book was published to celebrate the late President’s 119th birthday (May [...]
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June 25, 2009
LookAtVietnam – To celebrate National Journalists Day, reporter Le Thanh interviews an old hand, Huu Tho, who covered the events that made history in Viet Nam.Would you mind telling the readers the most memorable event in your life that affected you as a journalist?During the 1958-1959 period, I was assigned to move from a local [...]
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May 9, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Renown journalist Peter Arnett said yesterday his return visits to Viet Nam are some of the most “satisfying journeys” in his life.Speaking to local media in a press conference at the Caravelle Hotel, Arnett said: “They [his visits] close the circle from when I first arrived as a reporter in this war-torn country [...]
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Find your own voice, says top journalist
LookAtVietnam – To celebrate National Journalists Day, reporter Le Thanh interviews an old hand, Huu Tho, who covered the events that made history in Viet Nam.Would you mind telling the readers the most memorable event in your life that affected you as a journalist?During the 1958-1959 period, I was assigned to move from a local [...]
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