Obituary: Bui Tin, the reporter who changed his country`s fate
(WorldNews Asia)

It was a journalistic coup for the BBC. Vietnamese listeners were glued to their transistor radios every night during those weeks, secretly passing around photocopied transcriptions. Bui Tin`s `Following Ho Chi Minh: Memoirs of a North Vietnamese colonel (1995)` dealt a powerful blow to the legitimacy of the Communist Party. Until the last day of his life, Bui Tin was labelled a traitor by Vietnamese official...