As expected, throughout our 10 days in the city, the entire team had a packed schedule every day, gathering enough material to write the series of articles as planned. There were also some “funny yet frustrating” incidents during their work. For example, when they went to the home of Uncle Tu Cang (the intelligence hero Nguyen Van Tau), they discovered they had mistaken him for Nguyen Van Cang, the former secretary of Comrade Sau Dan (the late Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet), the former Secretary of the Saigon–Gia Dinh Regional Party Committee.

It was a coincidence that both men shared the nickname Tu Cang and were both 97 years old. Without that mix-up, they wouldn’t have learned about another historical figure who had contributed to healing the wounds of war in the early years of liberation in Southern Viet Nam. Fortunately, the reporting team was later able to meet the correct intelligence officer Tu Cang, whom they had met and written about 10 years earlier, when Ho Chi Minh City celebrated its 40th anniversary of liberation.

The trips of the reporting teams were successful in different ways. Meeting each person was like “reporting a victory” back to the newsroom. There are historical witnesses that, if they don’t meet them this time, and wait until the 5th or 10th anniversary to seek them out, they might never have the chance to meet them again.

Such were the successful outcomes of the reporting teams’ trips, each in its own way.

But the heaviest task was not the field trips themselves; it was the stage of writing the articles and collecting photographs and documents to build the stories. Nearly 100 painstaking eMagazine articles on the Sai Gon Special Forces, political prisoners in Con Dao, nearly a dozen portraits of heroic pilots and tank drivers, as well as stories about national reconciliation and numerous witness accounts recalling the memories of the Central Highlands campaign and the Hue–Da Nang campaign were published one after another within a month in preparation for the momentous day.

Last April 30, seeing streams of people gathering around the banyan tree to view the interactive exhibition marking the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification, scanning QR codes to read each journalistic product, we felt proud to have contributed a small part to the overall success of Nhan Dan Newspaper.

A “rapid campaign” of 50 days and nights by the entire team of reporters and editors of Nhan Dan Online successfully recreated the major campaigns that led to the historic victory of April 30 half a century ago. .

Over the past two years, due to the large number of special pages, the time available for us to produce each one has been only about one to two months. At times we even had to work on content for two to three special pages simultaneously. As a result, the reporting team has faced considerable pressure. From reporters assigned to cover specific sectors, they have become versatile writers capable of producing in-depth articles across many fields.

Over the past five years, Nhan Dan Online has launched 20 special pages. In one record case, we had to conduct up to five field trips by different groups of reporters to complete a single special page. Thanks to the investment in quality, many article series produced for these pages have gone beyond the limited scope of those data pages and have been highly appreciated by readers. Two series produced for the Dien Bien Phu Campaign and the 17th Parallel special pages — “Vinh Moc Tunnels and the Vinh Linh Underground Village System: A Miracle of Life in the Land of Fire” and “70 Years of the Dien Bien Phu Victory: Stories of Those Who Stayed Behind” — won the 2024 National Press Awards.

From reporters assigned to follow particular sectors, they have become versatile writers capable of producing in-depth articles across multiple fields.

Most recently, from September 2025 to January 2026, the mobilisation of the entire department, with active support from specialised departments and resident correspondents at home and abroad, was once again brought into play to produce the Communist Party–14th National Congress special page, the official page for this Congress.

Nhan Dan Online combined data journalism by editors and reporters with on-site reporting at the Congress by reporters from the Party Building Department and Nhan Dan Online reporters to make the page a success, attracting a surge in visits during the days of the Congress.

Yet our work on special pages has not meant neglecting daily news coverage. Over the past five years, Nhan Dan Online has organised numerous online forums and talk shows to contribute perspectives on issues reflecting everyday life, and carried out many live broadcasts on major events. During this period, two major earthquakes struck Turkiye and Myanmar.

Not afraid to venture into dangerous and difficult areas, Nhan Dan Online reporters were present at both disaster hotspots to send exclusive reports back to the newsroom.

Domestically, immediately after receiving reports, reporters were on the scene to interview witnesses at the site of the mini apartment fire in Ha Noi; entered the heart of the storm when super typhoon Yagi made landfall in Quang Ninh; or rushed by motorbike to Phu Tho to report on the collapse of Phong Chau Bridge...

Recently, in December 2025, the series titled “Seeking solutions to combat air pollution in Ha Noi”, produced by a team of Nhan Dan Online reporters, attracted significant public attention as it voiced the concerns of residents of the capital who have long had to live with hazardous levels of fine particulate matter. The series not only exposed the reality of the problem but also delved into its underlying causes, offering recommendations to help authorities address this pressing issue.

With the aim to promptly identify solutions, we organised a candid dialogue involving representatives from ministries and agencies responsible for the environment, transport and construction, alongside leading experts. The series combined multiple journalistic genres — including news reporting (on air pollution), field reportage (from pollution hotspots), interviews (with environmental experts and policymakers), and comprehensive coverage of the dialogue forum — opening a new approach in journalism and helping to address the issue in a thorough and comprehensive manner.

The Vietnamese-language version of Nhan Dan Online, with its rich and timely data-driven content, has provided the core material for the newspaper’s foreign-language editions — English, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish, and more recently Korean — to promptly publish specialised features and external affairs news for international audiences.

On June 2023, at the ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of Nhan Dan Online’s connection to the Internet (June 21, 1998 –June 21, 2023), Le Quoc Minh, Member of the Party Central Committee, Editor-in-Chief of Nhan Dan Newspaper, Deputy Head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Communications, Education and Mass Mobilisation, and President of the Viet Nam Journalists Association, remarked: “Thanks to the efforts of the leaders of various units, reporters, editors and staff throughout the Nhan Dan Newspaper system at home and abroad, Nhan Dan Online has entered a period of stronger development than ever before.”