Category: Reporting

W.Minh Tuan

In the American film Full Metal Jaket, made in 1987 about the Vietnam War in 1967, there is a scene with two American soldiers sitting on a Saigon sidewalk, talking to a prostitute. The scene behind these three characters is a busy Saigon street, with a billboard advertising Hynos toothpaste, a picture of a dark-skinned person – Mr. Cha Va – Java, revealing shiny white teeth thanks to brushing with Hynos toothpaste. Continue reading “The story of billionaire Vuong Dao Nghia, owner of Hynos toothpaste company before 1975 in Saigon”

W.Minh Tuan

In the Vietnamese police force, we also have bad people and good people. Here I would like to tell about 3 good, conscientious security officers.

Around 1997, there were major negative incidents in the oil and gas industry. Some people who had information about the oil and gas case secretly provided documents and records about negative incidents in the oil and gas industry to the press in Hanoi. Continue reading “Beautiful memories of 3 conscientious security officers – journalists must be brave and resolute in protecting their informants”

(Theo bao Ha Noi Moi)

After occupying Hanoi, the French began to build roads, houses, sewers, water supply pipes, infrastructure, electricity, hospitals, and hospitals for the poor is now a Vietnam-Germany Hospital,,,,according to the new French urban planning.

The timeline can be counted from October 1874, to 1954, when the Vietnamese drove the French away. Continue reading “The streets of Hanoi in the French period”

W.Minh Tuan

In Dai Doan Ket newspaper, there is journalist Thai Duy, also known as Tran Dinh Van, who is one of the most prestigious journalists in the Vietnamese press.

He is now retired, nearly 100 year-olds, and still healthy.

During the Vietnam War, he and many other journalists went to the South to work as a war correspondent, participating in battles with the Viet Cong army to get news to write articles, praising the feats of the liberation army.

Journalist Thai Duy has another pseudonym, Tran Dinh Van. Under the pseudonym Tran Dinh Van, he wrote the work Live Like Him-Song nhu anh, about heroic martyr Nguyen Van Troi, and his wife  Quyen. Continue reading “Journalist Thai Duy-Tran Dinh Van, Dai Doan Ket newspaper”