Vietnam Cambodia archive 1979-1985

For Vietnam and Cambodia old timers, we have posted some videos discovered in our archives from 1979 and 1985.
1. Talk of new tensions in June 2011 between Vietnam and China prompted us to recall the brief war between China and Vietnam in 1979. Here is a report from Hanoi in April 1979 in the aftermath of the Chinese attack on northern Vietnam.
2. Attention friends at the Raffles Group. Looking through old Video 8 material from 1985, we came across these shots of Le Royal Hotel. Then the Samaki, it was center of NGO activity in Phnom Penh. Note the bungalows (long gone) which in days pre 1975 housed the news agencies.
3. In 1985, ten years after the fall of Vietnam to Communist forces, a large group of journalists was invited to visit.
I shot these scenes of Vietnamese military exercises arranged for the occasion.
4. The occasion was also marked by the first ever satellite broadcast from Vietnam. The NBC TODAY Show decided to broadcast live, bringing in their own dish, from the grounds of the Presidential Palace, Saigon.
5. Later journos were taken to a 'MODEL' 'Re-education camp' where enemies of the state after 1975 were imprisoned. A surreal visit. We were not allowed to talk to prisoners. At one point we were told that some prisoners were so happy with conditions, they asked to stay on voluntarily.
6. In the video you will see a number of distinguished journalists. Lew Simons (former Washington Post) is an old Indochina hand. And these are some of the last pictures of Neil Davis and his sound man David Latch.
The two were killed some months later in an attempted coup d'etat in Bangkok.

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[LeHuyAnh]

Thanks very much for all of these priceless and dangerous reports, Mr. Laurie.