Vietnamese Pride Betty Nguyen

Betty Nguyen is an Amerasian news anchor of Vietnamese and white American descent currently employed with cable television news channel CNN. She co-anchors CNN Saturday Morning, CNN Sunday Morning, and the weekend editions of CNN Newsroom with T. J. Holmes and is a regular correspondent and contributor for other CNN programming.

Born in Saigon, Vietnam, she left the country in April 1975 to come to the United States. She grew up in Texas and attended the University of Texas at Austin. Nguyen intended to become an attorney, but instead graduated with a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism in 1995.

You can currently see Betty on CNN Newsroom during the following times (all times Eastern Standard Time):

* 7:00 am - 8:30 am: CNN Saturday
Morning/CNN Sunday Morning

* 9:00 am - 9:30 am/10:00 am: CNN Saturday Morning/CNN Sunday Morning

* 10:00 am - 12:00 pm: CNN Newsroom (only on Saturday)

Nguyen was just a little girl toward the end of the Vietnam War when her family fled South Vietnam. From a CNN videotape,[3] she speaks about her father. "He was an American serviceman who fell in love with a Vietnamese college student. They married and had me, a child who was given life, when so many were losing theirs in the war."

"On April 19, 1975, we fled Vietnam, crammed into a packed C-130 cargo plane. It was stepping into the unknown. Nothing was guaranteed except that turning back was not an option. And that meant leaving behind my grandparentsAs hard as it was, fleeing not only saved my life, it gave me a new one, in a place called America."

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[dalailamass]

I had dinners with Betty Ng twice. We had sex one, but I did not like it. She kinda buffed, forted and sneezed at the same time. What's a woman!

[PaulG85]

lol @ 5:02.

[HungKiet]

kissssssssss betty nguyen

[HungKiet]

@EmporerKim hater

[happinesson]

it takes a lot of courage to do her job! No doubt, her heart still belongs to her native land!

[msoviet409]

@EmporerKim r u jealous slit eyed kim chi boy? u know the word "gook" was called during korean war? unless u r too chickenshit to deny it! a little info 4 u moron! kim chi GOOK! by the way learn some more english!

[sinaimountain]

@CAPlaneSpotting _ They all are not named Nguyen. It's just a very popular last name in Vietnam. Besides, in the old days it was an honor for certain people to take the emperor's last name.

[EmporerKim]

who care swamp goks are not of any importance.

[MiniMochis]

@CAPlaneSpotting

Back in the times when Vietnam was ruled by the Nguyen Dynasty,people changed their surnames to Nguyen to avoid prosecution,others were rewarded with it. Also descendants of certain past rulers were forced.