Anh Do writes about Vietnamese Culture

By Minh Truong

Anh Do is an Asian-American reporter from the Los Angeles Times. She was born in Saigon, Vietnam and moved to America to study journalism. She graduated from University of Southern California and went to London and Spain to learn international journalism.


One of her articles is “Hiep Thi Le’s life could've been a movie; instead the refugee became a star playing someone else.” This article was written in the end of January 2018. This article is about the famous life of actress Hiep Thi Le. She was born in DaNang and moved here to America during the Vietnam War. She starred in a lot of Vietnam War movies such as “Heaven and Earth” in 1993. She also appeared in some other movies such as “Cruel Intentions” in 1999 and “Bugis Street” in 1995. Le passed away back in December of 2017 because she had stomach cancer. She was 46 years old when she died.


I’m interested in Anh Do’s stories because she wrote a lot of articles about the Vietnamese community here in America and back in Vietnam as well. Since I’m Vietnamese I wanted to read about what’s happening in my country as well as any Vietnamese cultural stories that occur here in America.