Tuoi Tre

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Tuổi Trẻ ((Vietnamese: Báo Tuổi Trẻ - Youth) is a major daily newspaper in Vietnam, publishing in Vietnamese from Hồ Chí Minh City. It was originally a publication of the Hồ Chí Minh Communist Youth Organization (Vietnamese: Đoàn Thanh niên Cộng sản Hồ Chí Minh) of Hồ Chí Minh City, and while it is still the official mouthpiece of that organization, it has grown to become the largest newspaper in the country. As of 2007 its daily circulation is 450,000.^[1]

The newspaper includes: Tuổi Trẻ daily (Vietnamese), weekly Tuổi Trẻ Cuối Tuần, bi-monthly Tuổi Trẻ Cười and online Tuổi Trẻ Online.

1 History
2 Offices
3 Stance
4 External links
5 References

[edit] History

Tuoi Tre Newspaper was officially established on September 2, 1975. However, its precursor was propaganda leaflets issued by students and pupils in Saigon during their anti-American movements in the Vietnam War.

In its early stage, Tuoi Tre circulated tri-weekly. On September 1, 2000, it started to issue one more on Friday. From April 2, 2006, it became a daily newspaper.

[edit] Offices

Its headquarters is located on 60A, Hoàng Văn Thụ street, Ward 9, Phú Nhuận District, in the urban area of Ho Chi Minh City. Tuoi Tre has 8 representative offices in Hanoi, Nghệ An, Huế, Danang, Qui Nhơn, Nha Trang, Dalat, and Can Tho.

[edit] Stance

Described as “pro-reformist” by the BBC,^[2] the newspaper had run into trouble with the communist authorities several times, including once in 2000 when it commissioned a survey among Hồ Chí Minh City youths that found out that Bill Gates is more admired than Hồ Chí Minh^[3]^[4]. This resulted in the published copies being destroyed by state censors and the three editors harshly sanctioned.