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. See also:. The Justice Department has launched an investigation to determine the sources of the classified information regarding the program that the Times published. Its characteristic flavor is sweet (sugar), spicy (serrano peppers), and flavored by a variety of mints. It later came to light that reporters and editors at the Times had known about this intelligence-gathering program for approximately a year, but had "sat on the story". Vietnamese cuisine is based on rice, soy sauce, and fish sauce. and those in other countries without first obtaining court warrants for each instance of surveillance. Southern music exudes a lively laissez faire attitude.

On December 16, 2005, a New York Times article revealed that the Bush administration had ordered the NSA to intercept certain telephone conversations between al-Qaeda-connected persons in the U.S. Central classical music shows the influences of Champa culture with its melancholic melodies. Mitchell said Miller was guilty of “crimes against journalism” and “did far more damage to her newspaper than did Jayson Blair, and that’s not even counting her WMD reporting, which hurt and embarrassed the paper in other ways.” [17] Miller resigned from the paper on 9 November 2005. Vietnamese classical music can be traced to the Mongol invasions, when the Vietnamese captured a Chinese opera troupe. This included several predictions and calls for Miller to be fired, including some by self-styled media watchdogs Alex Jones, director of the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University (and a former New York Times reporter); Jay Rosen, journalism professor at New York University; and Editor and Publisher columnist Greg Mitchell. Northern classical music is Vietnam's oldest and is traditionally more formal. However, these accounts were widely criticized as revealing even more flaws and failings of both Miller and the Times than they answered, including uncooperativeness and dissembling by Miller to the Times and a lack of reasonable oversight of Miller’s work by the Times, as summarized for example in the Washington Post [16]. Vietnam's cuisine and music have three distinct flavors, related to Vietnam's three regions: Bắc or North, Trung or Central, and Nam or South.

This account [14] was published on October 16, along with a personal account by Miller [15]. Others say that the Vietnamese' second religion is superstition and fatalism, brought on by the decades of war. After Miller's appearance before the grand jury, she was released from her contempt of court finding, after which the New York Times became free to write their own account of the affair. The majority of Vietnamese are adherents to Mahayana Buddhism, influenced by Confucianism and Daoism, and with a strong emphasis on ancestor worship. She said she finally relented only after receiving a personal waiver, both on the phone and in writing, of her earlier confidential source agreement with Lewis "Scooter" Libby, although Libby's lawyer claimed the offer of a waiver had been standing for a year. Historically, passing the imperial Mandarin exams was the only means for Vietnamese people to socially advance themselves. In October 2005, Times reporter Judith Miller was released from prison after an 85-day stay, when she agreed to testify to Patrick Fitzgerald's grand jury. Education is highly prized.

The American Heritage Dictionary, however, defines refugee as "one who flees in search of refuge.". Due to Vietnam's long association with China, Vietnamese culture remains strongly Confucian with its emphasis on familial duty. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees defines "refugees" as those who have crossed a national border to escape unbearable conditions at home, while those who have been driven from home within their own nation are referred to as "internally displaced persons" (or "IDP's"). During the French colonial period, Quốc Ngữ, the romanized Vietnamese alphabet representation of spoken Vietnamese, became popular and brought literacy to the masses. Following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, The Times has referred to those displaced by the hurricane as "refugees", while most news media refer to them as "evacuees". The celebrated epic Đoạn trường tân thanh (or Truyện Kiều) by Nguyễn Du is written in Chữ Nôm. The adoption community is outraged that, for obviously political reasons, the Times has targeted the very private circumstances, motivations, and processes by which the Roberts became parents." [13]. In the 16th century, the Vietnamese developed their own set of characters called Chữ Nôm.

The report went on, "Sources familiar with the matter tell Fox News that at least one lawyer turned the Times down flat, saying that any effort to pry into adoption case records, which are always sealed, would be reprehensible." The Times replied, "Our reporters made initial inquiries about the adoptions." However they also claimed, "They did so with great care, understanding the sensitivity of the issue." The Times was condemned by the National Council for Adoption, “NCFA denounces, in the strongest possible terms, the shocking decision of The New York Times to investigate the adoption records of Justice John Roberts’ two young children. In its early history, Vietnamese writing used Chinese characters. Journalist Brit Hume, of Fox News reported that the Times has been asking lawyers that specialize in adoption cases for advice on how to get into the sealed court records. Main article: Culture of Vietnam. In August 2005, the Times was accused of attempting to unseal the adoption records of United States Supreme Court nominee Justice John Roberts's children, an unprecendented investigation by a newspaper. See also: List of ethnic groups in Vietnam. The aggressive journalism that I long for, and that the paper owes both its readers and its own self-respect, would reveal not just the tactics of those who promoted the WMD stories, but how the Times itself was used to further their cunning campaign." [12]. In recent years, English has become a more popular language to learn and is increasingly used in business, among other things.

.. Russian- and to a much lesser extent Czech or Polish- is often known among "baby-boomers" whose families had ties with the Soviet bloc. Other stories pushed Pentagon assertions so aggressively you could almost sense epaulets sprouting on the shoulders of editors. French, a legacy of colonial rule, is spoken by some (mostly older) Vietnamese as a second language. .. The most spoken languages are: Tày (1.5 million), Mường (1.2 million), Khmer (1.05 million), Cantonese (870,000, this figure also includes speakers of other Chinese dialects), Nung (860,000), HMông (790,000), and Tai Dam (700,000). Times reporters broke many stories before and after the war - but when the stories themselves later broke apart, in many instances Times readers never found out. Various other languages are spoken by the several minority groups in Vietnam.

But in the Times's WMD coverage, readers encountered some rather breathless stories built on unsubstantiated 'revelations' that, in many instances, were the anonymity-cloaked assertions of people with vested interests. According to official figures, 86.2% of the population speak Vietnamese as a native tongue. "War requires an extra standard of care, not a lesser one. The figure was down to 86.9% at the 1989 census, and 86.2% at the 1999 census. "The failure was not individual, but institutional," he wrote. According to official figures, at the 1979 census the ethnic Vietnamese accounted for 87.4% of the total population. A second self-criticism by Okrent went further. As a result, the ethnic minorities are now growing at a faster rate than the ethnic Vietnamese, which means that the percentage of ethnic Vietnamese in the total population is slowly decreasing year after year.

[11] While this "From the Editors" piece didn't mention names, a large part of the incriminated articles had been written by Times reporter Judith Miller. The birth rate of the minorities is still very high, comparable to birth rates in Cambodia or Laos. On May 26, 2004, the Times published another significant admission of journalistic failings, admitting that its flawed reporting during the buildup to the Iraq campaign of the War on Terror helped promote the misleading belief that Iraq possessed large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction. The birth rate of the ethnic Vietnamese (and also the Hoa), which historically has been very high, decreased significantly since the 1980s and is now reaching much lower levels, comparable to the birth rates in Thailand or Malaysia. Incidentally, Times columnist and former reporter Nicolas Kristof, a Pulitzer prize winner, has mentioned being of Armenian descent and has criticized the ongoing denial of the Armenian Genocide by the Turkish government, in his Times column. In terms of land area, the ethnic Vietnamese inhabit a little less than half of Vietnam, while the ethnic minorities inhabit the majority of Vietnam's land (albeit the least fertile parts of the country). The Turkish Government still actively denies a genocide occurred. According to the 1999 census, ethnic Vietnamese (Kinh) numbered 65,795,718 and thus accounted for 86.2% of the total population of Vietnam.

Despite publishing dozens of articles about the Armenian Genocide as it progressed, the Times for a period shied away from using the term in its articles as part of its editorial policy. Protests and demonstrations by highland minorities have been reported. In April, 2004 the Times reversed its policy of not using the term Armenian Genocide. Further north, there have been reports of tensions with the Tày people due to the government sponsored relocation of ethnic Vietnamese from the lowlands to the highlands inhabited by the Tày and other minorities. This has been aggressively criticized, such as by frequent Times contributor Christopher Hitchens, as carrying a connotation of justification; Times columnist Thomas Friedman refers to them as "terrorists" or "Islamo-fascists". On the other hand, some in the Vietnamese government still pursue the centuries old policy of colonizing Khmer land, and it was reported that in the 1980s and 1990s some local Vietnamese officials have pushed the Cambodian-Vietnamese border several kilometers inside Cambodian territory, annexing tens of Cambodian villages, in violation of international treaties, thus further increasing the ethnic Khmer population inside Vietnam. invasion of Iraq, the Times has persistently referred to "insurgents" rather than "terrorists" being responsible for the bombing and other acts of violence. The Vietnamese government is afraid that the large native Khmer Krom population in the Mekong delta could allow Cambodia to officially claim back the fertile areas of the delta that were annexed by Vietnam more than 200 years ago.

Since the 2003 U.S. In particular, the large Khơ-me Crôm (Khmer Krom) minority of southern Vietnam is denied elementary human rights in an effort by the Vietnamese government to Vietnamize the Khmer Krom, or force them to leave their native land and relocate to Cambodia. The paper's top two editors – Howell Raines, the executive editor, and Gerald Boyd, managing editor – resigned their posts following the incident. Human Rights NGOs point out the Vietnamese government's poor record with respect to ethnic minorities. Questions of affirmative action in journalism were also raised, since Blair was African American. Sometimes, the name Montagnard is used specifically for the Mường ethnic group. In 2003, the Times admitted to journalism fraud committed over a span of several years by one of its reporters, Jayson Blair, and the general professionalism of the paper was questioned, though Blair immediately resigned following the incident. The name Montagnard is still sometimes used today.

In response, thousands of Jews canceled their Times subscriptions.[10]. The French used the name Montagnard (plural Montagnards, meaning "mountain people") to call all the minorities (except the Khmer Krom and the Hoa), no matter what their actual language. The photo, however, focused on the comparatively minuscule number of Palestinian protestors at the parade and made the event appear to be confrontational. Officially, the ethnic minorities are referred to as "national minorities". The day after the Israel Day Parade in 2002, the Times featured a picture of the event on the front page. Mixed race individuals face the most discrimination in Vietnamese society and government, especially ones who are product of American soldiers (white or black) from the Vietnam War. (In May 2005 Okrent was succeeded by Byron Calame.). There are some who are racially mixed with blacks as well, another product during the Vietnam War from American soldiers.

Bush administration (see below). There are also a few of those descended from Indian or Pakistani setttlers also during the colonial era. However, he noted that the paper's coverage of the Iraq war was, among other things, insufficiently critical of the George W. Most of them are descendants of Vietnamese people mixed with either early French settlers or white American soldiers and personnel (or both), during the colonial period and Vietnam War. Okrent did not comment at length on the issue of bias in coverage of "hard news", such as fiscal policy, foreign policy, or civil liberties. Vietnam also has a small number of racial Eurasians, people of Asian and Caucasian (mostly white, but also Indian) parentage. He claimed that this bias reflected the paper's cosmopolitanism, which arose naturally from its roots as a hometown paper of New York City. Many of these 53 minority groups only have a few thousand members or so.

He concluded that the Times did have a liberal bias in coverage of certain social issues, gay marriage being the example he used. Beyond these five largest ethnic minorities, there are 48 other minorities officially recognized by the Vietnamese government, giving a total of 53 minorities altogether. In summer 2004, the Times' public editor (ombudsman), Daniel Okrent, wrote a piece on the Times' alleged liberal bias. However, since the North Vietnamese took over South Vietnam in 1975 many Hoa left Vietnam, especially in the 1980s, so that at the 1999 census the Hoa were only the fifth largest minority (or the fourth largest if the Thái are not considered as an homogenous ethnic group). Some studies have shown that the Times selection of op-ed pieces and letters to the editor seem to "bracket" their editorial position, making the editorials appear to be moderate — although again this practice is hardly unique to the Times. Up to the 1979 Vietnamese census, the Hoa were the largest minority of Vietnam. newspapers. They speak predominantly Cantonese (known to the Vietnamese as Quảng Đông), but there are also speakers of Hakka (Khách Gia), Min Nan/Hokkien/Fujian (Mân Nam/Phúc Kiến), Chaozhou (Triều Châu), etc.

The Times has also been criticized for allowing Exxon-Mobil Corporation to run a regular paid "advertorial" commentary piece on its editorial page, although the practice is common in other U.S. The Hoa (ethnic Han Chinese) are mainly lowlanders and, more specifically, urban dwellers. Mickey Kaus wrote that the executive editor, Howell Raines, was "on the verge of a breakthrough reconceptualization of 'news' here, in which 'news' comes to mean the failure of any powerful individual or institution to do what Howell Raines wants them to do.". The Vietnamese government reported 1,055,174 Khmer Krom at the 1999 census. Critics complained that this was an editorial usurping news space. There is no consensus on the exact number of Khơ-me Crôm (Khmer Krom) living in Vietnam. On November 25, 2002, the Times ran a front-page story with the headline, "CBS Staying Silent in Debate on Women Joining Augusta" — part of a string of stories focusing on the Augusta National Golf Club, the host of the Masters Tournament, effectively demanding a boycott. The Khơ-me Crôm (Khmer Krom) live in the fertile delta of the Mekong River in southern Vietnam and are ethnically the same as the Khmer people who make up the majority of the population of Cambodia.

A frequent critic of the Times in this vein has been leftist Noam Chomsky. The Mường live in the mountains of north central Vietnam and speak a Mon-Khmer language closely related to the Vietnamese language. Such critics note the significance of the many important stories that the Times does not print, which can be found in alternative media. Although the Thái ethnicity is officially recognized in Vietnam, western linguistics do not recognize it and prefer to classify Tai Dam, Tai Dón, Tai Daeng, etc., as separate ethnic groups, in which case the Mường minority moves to second largest minority of Vietnam, Khmer Krom move to third position, and Hoa to fourth position. political parties on many issues, the often-harmful activities of multinational corporations, etc. The Thai people of Thailand speak languages belonging to the Lao-Phutai branch of the Southwestern Tai subgroup, while the "Thái" of Vietnam speak languages belonging to the East Central branch of the Southwestern Tai subgroup. Some liberals view the New York Times as a conservative establishment newspaper due to its failure to use its formidable journalistic resources to critique and expose structural economic inequality, the comparative ideological similarity of the major U.S. This official "Thái" ethnicity should not be confused with the Thai people of Thailand.

Eisenhower in 1956. All these languages are closely related and belong to the Southwestern Tai subgroup of the Tai languages. The editorial page of the Times has not endorsed a Republican Party candidate for president since Dwight D. Thái is a name used by Vietnamese authorities for a group of people also from the mountainous northern region of Vietnam and whom western linguists say actually speak separate languages: Tai Dam, Tai Dón, Tai Daeng, Tai Hang Tong, Tày Tac, and Tai Thanh. Bush administration; and libertarian-conservative former columnist William Safire criticized the Patriot Act. Their language is a member of the Tai languages, belonging to the Central Tai subgroup and closely related to the Zhuang language of southern China. For example, Dowd strongly criticized President Clinton; Krugman (a professional economist) spoke as an economic centrist before he began criticizing the George W. The Tay people live primarily in the mountains and foothills of northern Vietnam.

However, attempts to place these columnists' positions on a one-dimensional American political spectrum do not completely characterize their actions or views. Membership to Sunni and Bashi Islam are usually accredited to the ethnic Cham minority, but there are also a few ethnic Vietnamese adherents to Islam in the southwest. The 2005 roster of regular columnists ranges in political position from Maureen Dowd, Paul Krugman, and Bob Herbert on the left, to Nicholas Kristof and Thomas Friedman on the center-left, and David Brooks, formerly of The Weekly Standard magazine, and John Tierney on the moderate right. The largest Protestant churches are the Evangelical Church of Vietnam and the Montagnard Evangelical Church. However, some critics believe the mix is more liberal than conservative. Mainstream Pure Land schools and Zen-inspired syncretists); with a sizeable Roman Catholic following, Protestant, Cao Đài, and Hoa Hao minorities. The op-ed section, the Times's regular columnists — who operate largely independently of the rest of the paper, and are subject to relatively little editorial oversight — have varying political orientations. But according to the majority of other sources, Vietnamese people are predominantly Confucian and Mahayana Buddhist (esp.

Scott's film reviews sometimes contain barbs directed at social conservatives, and Frank Rich's Arts columns regularly attacked conservatives. According to the 1999 Socialist Republic of Vietnam's census numbers, eighty percent of Vietnamese subscribe to no religion. O. By contrast, the ethnic minorities, except for the Khơ-me Crôm (Khmer Krom) and the Hoa (ethnic Han Chinese), are found mostly in the highlands that cover two-thirds of the national territory. For example, A. A homogenous social group, the Viet exert influence on national life through their control of political and economic affairs and their role as purveyors of the dominant culture. Among other things, the intermix of political commentary with art criticism in the Arts section of the paper is pointed to as evidence of bias. They are concentrated largely in the alluvial deltas and in the coastal plains and have little in common with the minority peoples of the highlands, whom they have historically regarded as hostile and barbaric.

For example, during presidential campaigns, the paper systematically gives more coverage to Democratic topics, but only so when the incumbent president is a Republican. The majority ethnic Vietnamese, also called Viet or Kinh, make up about 86 percent of the nation's population. He finds that the Times displays Democratic partisanship, with some watchdog aspects. According to official figures from the 1999 census, of Vietnam's then population of 76.3m, the largest of 54 government recognized ethnic groups of Vietnam were:. [9]. Main article: Demographics of Vietnam. Riccardo Puglisi from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has written a paper about the editorial choices of the New York Times from 1946 to 1994, entitled, "Being the New York Times: The Political Behaviour of a Newspaper" (December 6, 2004). Many of the over 3 million annual visitors are Vietnam war veterans.

A 2005 study by Tim Gloseclose and Jeffrey Milyo of media coverage over the past ten years ranked the New York Times as the third most liberal of twenty major media outlets ranked by Americans for Democratic Action's guidelines for lawmakers' votes on selected issues of importance to liberals. Tourism has become an increasingly important industry in Vietnam. Some conservatives believe that the Times' hard news and soft news reportage have a consistent and pronounced liberal slant, particularly on social issues. Corruption, bribery and embezzlement committed by many government officials have pushed property prices even higher, as real estate investment is a popular form of money laundering. One of the most serious of these charges is that before and during World War II, the New York Times downplayed evidence that the Third Reich had targeted Jews for genocide, at least in part because the publisher feared the taint of taking on any 'Jewish cause'. The booming prices have given the poor land owners the opportunity to sell their homes for inflated prices. The Times, like many major news organizations, has often been accused of giving too little or too much play to various events for reasons not related to objective journalism. This has amazed many people because GDP per capita of this city is around US$1,000 per annum.

On several occasions the Times has erroneously published premature obituaries, including:. In Hanoi, the capital, property prices can be as high as those in Tokyo or New York City. This was later proven to be a hoax created by Megan Jasper, a sales representative for Sub Pop Records. The reason lies in the high property prices. On November 15, 1992, the Times published a list of slang terms (known as "grunge speak") that were supposedly used in the Seattle grunge scene. The spending power of the public has noticeably increased. In 1969, days before Apollo 11's landing on the moon, the newspaper published a tongue-in-cheek correction:. This figure has been scaled down by the Government to 9.5% per annum to avoid the ‘double digit’ classification.

In 1920, a New York Times editorial ridiculed Robert Goddard and his claim that a rocket would work in space:. Inflation rate is estimated at 14% per year in 2004. This seems to be a result of vigorous action by the Times' legal wing. This translates to US$2700 per capita. As of late January 2006 online reproduction of Select content is extremely difficult to find. Vietnam, however, is still a relatively poor country with GDP of US$227.2 billion (est., 2004). [8] Most for-pay NYT editorials are available online shortly after their publication through blog searches. The country is attempting to become a member of the WTO.

This led to attempts to work around it, such as Never Pay Retail [7] and the posting of TimesSelect material by bloggers. Layoffs in the state sector and foreign-invested enterprises combined with the lasting effects of a previous military demobilization further exacerbated the unemployment situation. This is unusual, in that it included previously free editorial columns. On the other hand, urban unemployment has been rising steadily in recent years due to high numbers of migration from the countryside to the cities, and rural unemployment, estimated to be up to 35% during nonharvest periods, is already at critical levels. The website had 555 million pageviews in March 2005.[6] In September 2005, the paper decided to experiment with charging subscription for daily columns in a program known as TimesSelect. Simultaneously, investment grew three-fold and domestic savings quintupled. It has a general policy of keeping articles freely available for a week and charges subscription for older articles. On the one hand, Vietnam achieved around 8% annual GDP growth from 1990 to 1997 and continued at around 7% from 2000 to 2002, making it the world's second-fastest growing economy.

The Times has had a strong presence on the web since 1995, and has been ranked one of the top web sites. In many ways, this followed the Chinese model and achieved similar results. In the absence of a major headline, the day's most important story generally appears in the top-righthand column. In 1986, the Sixth Party Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam formally abandoned Marxist economic planning and began introducing market elements as part of a broad economic reform package called "đổi mới" ("Renovation"). It stayed with an 8-column format years after other papers had switched to 6, and it was one of the last newspapers to adopt color photography. Main article: Economy of Vietnam. Its headlines tend to be verbose, and, for major stories, come with subheadings giving further details, although it is moving away from this style. Land boundaries: Total: 4,639 km (2,883 mi) Border countries: Cambodia 1,228 km (763 mi), China 1,281 km (796 mi), Laos 2,130 m (1,324 mi).

When referring to people, it uses titles, rather than unadorned last names (except among the sports pages, in which last names stand alone). Annual rainfall ranges from 120 to 300 centimetres (47 to 118 inches), and annual temperatures vary between 5°C (41°F) and 37°C (99°F). Stylistically, the newspaper is quite conservative (see also: The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage). The climate is tropical and monsoonal; humidity averages 84 percent throughout the year. The newspaper is organized in three sections:. The south is divided into coastal lowlands, Dai Truong Son (central mountains) with high plateaus, and the Mekong River Delta. [5]. Phan Xi Păng, located in Lào Cai province, is the highest mountain in Vietnam at 3,143 metres (10,312 ft).

Ann Arbor, Michigan; Austin, Texas; Atlanta, Georgia; Billerica, Massachusetts; Canton, Ohio; Chicago, Illinois; College Point, New York; Concord, California; Dayton, Ohio (Sunday only); Denver, Colorado; Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Gastonia, North Carolina; Edison, New Jersey; Lakeland, Florida; Phoenix, Arizona; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Springfield, Virginia; Kent, Washington and Torrance, California. The northern part of the country consists of highlands and the Red River Delta. The New York Times is printed at the following sites:. Mountains account for 40 percent, hills 40 percent, and forests 75 percent. By the beginning of the 21st century, The Times had begun leasing WQEW to ABC Radio for its Radio Disney format, which continues on 1560 AM to this day. The topography consists of hills and densely forested mountains, with level land covering no more than 20 percent. The AM station changed its call letters from WQXR to WQEW. The country is approximately 331,688 square kilometers (128,066 mi²) in area, which is slightly larger than New Mexico and slightly smaller than Germany.

The classical format was simulcast on both frequencies until the early 1990s, when the big-band and standards format of WNEW-AM (now WBBR) moved from 1130 AM to 1560. Main article: Geography of Vietnam. The newspaper continues to own classical WQXR (96.3 FM) and WQEW (1560 AM). Besides the five cities, the country is divided into fifty-nine provinces (tỉnh, singular and plural): An Giang, Bắc Giang, Bắc Cạn, Bạc Liêu, Bắc Ninh, Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu, Bến Tre, Bình Định, Bình Dương, Bình Phước, Bình Thuận, Cà Mau, Cao Bằng, Đắk Lắk, Đắk Nông, Điện Biên, Đồng Nai, Đồng Tháp, Gia Lai, Hà Giang, Hải Dương, Hà Nam, Hà Tây, Hà Tĩnh, Hòa Bình, Hậu Giang, Hưng Yên, Khánh Hòa, Kiên Giang, Kon Tum, Lai Châu, Lâm Đồng, Lạng Sơn, Lào Cai, Long An, Nam Định, Nghệ An, Ninh Bình, Ninh Thuận, Phú Thọ, Phú Yên, Quảng Bình, Quảng Nam, Quảng Ngãi, Quảng Ninh, Quảng Trị, Sóc Trăng, Sơn La, Tây Ninh, Thái Bình, Thái Nguyên, Thanh Hóa, Thừa Thiên-Huế, Tiền Giang, Trà Vinh, Tuyên Quang, Vĩnh Long, Vĩnh Phúc, Yên Bái. 26, 2004, the reported circulation data for The New York Times were: 1,124,700 Weekday[3] and 1,669,700 Sunday[4]. Now, Saigon is understood as heart of the city (central area of the District 1). It has 16 news bureaus in the New York region, 11 national news bureaus and 26 foreign news bureaus.[2] For the year ending Dec. Ho Chi Minh City was formerly known as Sài Gòn (Sài Gòn).

The Times is based in New York City. There are also four municipalities (thành phố trực thuộc Trung ương, singular and plural) existing at provincial level: Cần Thơ, Đà Nẵng, Hải Phòng, and Hồ Chí Minh City (Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh). At the end of 2005 it had over 350 full time reporters and about 40 photographers, in addition to hundreds of free-lance contributors who work for the paper more occasionally. Vietnam's capital (thủ đô, singular and plural) is Hà Nội (Hà Nội). The Times has been going through a downsizing, for several years, laying off workers and cutting expenses [1], in common with a general trend among print newsmedia. Main article: Provinces of Vietnam. More recently, in 2004 the Times won a Pulitzer award for a series written by David Barstow and Lowell Bergman on employers and workplace safety issues. Vietnam is a member of the United Nations, La Francophonie, ASEAN, and APEC, and applied for membership to the World Trade Organization in 2001.

In 1972, the Times exposed the Tuskegee experiment, in which African Americans suffering from syphilis were surreptitiously denied treatment over a period of decades. Former political parties include the nationalist Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng of Nguyễn Thái Học, the Can Lao party of the Ngô Đình Diệm government and the Viet Nam Duy Tan Hoi of Phan Bội Châu during the colonial period. United States (1971), which declared the government's prior restraint of the classified documents was unconstitutional. The Government of Free Vietnam has claimed responsibility for a number of guerilla raids into Vietnam, which the Vietnamese government has denounced as terrorism. v. The most prominent are the Vietnamese Constitutional Monarchist League, and the Government of Free Vietnam. This led to New York Times Co. These communities have supported demonstrations and civil disobedience against the government.

It has traditionally printed full transcripts of major speeches and debates. The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is governed through a highly centralized system dominated by the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) (Đảng Cộng sản Việt Nam), which was formerly the Vietnamese Labor Party (1951-1976). Today The New York Times is probably the most prominent American daily newspaper, sometimes being referred to as America's "newspaper of record". Main article: Politics of Vietnam. Sullivan, which established the actual malice legal test for libel. It reestablished diplomatic relations with the United States in 1995, one year after the United States' trade embargo on Vietnam was repealed. v. During much of the 1990s, economic growth was rapid, and Vietnam reintegrated into the international community.

In 1964, the paper was the defendant in New York Times Co. In 1986, the Communist Party of Vietnam implemented economic reforms known as đổi mới (renovation). A new headquarters for the newspaper, a skyscraper designed by Renzo Piano, is currently under construction at 41st Street and 8th Avenue in Manhattan. Only one month later, however, partially in retaliation, China launched a short-lived incursion into Vietnam: the Sino-Vietnamese War. More recently, in 1996 The New York Times went online, giving access to readers all over the world on the Web at www.nytimes.com. In late 1978, the Cambodian people, with the support of the Vietnamese army, removed the Khmer Rouge from power. The Op-Ed section started appearing in 1970. Millions of South Vietnamese became boat people over the next two decades.