Ho Chi Minh: a journalist of the highest standing


President Ho Chi Minh spent time reading, commenting on and editing articles of the Vietnam News Agency. - Photo: VNA/VNS

HANOI: Long before he became the revered leader of an independent Vietnam, President Ho Chi Minh was a journalist with a mission: to give a voice to the voiceless, to expose injustice and to connect the Vietnamese struggle with the broader currents of global liberation.

His pen, as sharp as his political instincts, became his first weapon in the long fight against colonialism.

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