Freelance Reporter
Duc Ha
Born and raised in Vietnam, Duc Ha is an editor and senior correspondent for OneViet.com, an online community portal in Vietnamese and English based in San Jose. He is also a freelance writer for VTimes and various Vietnamese publications in Silicon Valley and Orange County, California.
Duc attended the School Of Law in Saigon and planned to become a diplomat. The ravaging war changed many of his dreams. He instead joined the armed forces and, because he was fluent in English and French, he was assigned to the Information Office where he became a war correspondent after a training course in the United States. In 1992 Duc immigrated to the U.S., where he joined the staff of Voice of America’s Vietnamese Service in Washington, D.C as a radio broadcaster. In 1999 he served as the news editor and anchor of the Vietnamese Broadcasting Network, a satellite television service operated by SkyView World Media in Fort Lee, New Jersey.
The opening of a reporter position at Viet Mercury, the Vietnamese-language weekly published by the San Jose Mercury News and the first Vietnamese newspaper published by a U.S. media company, was a golden opportunity for Duc to move to California in 2000. While at Viet Mercury, Duc wrote a series of groundbreaking articles promoting awareness of breast cancer, colon cancer and hepatitis B among Asians and a probing series on Medicare fraud, which was a runner-up for New America Media’s 2004 Best Investigative/In-Depth Reporting award.
