In January 1980, the Vietnamese-language magazine office of Van Nghe Tien Phong located in Arlington County, Virginia, was set fire by an explosion but publisher Nguyen Thanh Hoang lived.
[4] After the assassinations of the five and violence that affected other intellectuals, and not only journalists, police in the crime areas had no evidence to pin the murders on any person other than claims made by a group calling itself Vietnamese Party to Exterminate the Communists and Restore the Nation, or VOECRN.
[5] In a documentary by PBS's Frontline and ProPublica, "Terror in Little Saigon", the National United Front for the Liberation of Vietnam's assassination arm, known as K-9, was connected to the five deaths.
[8] Duong Trong Lam was briefly buried at the Los Gatos Memorial Park, in San Jose, but his remains were removed by his father after anti-communist protests by the local Vietnamese community.
After arriving in the U.S., he worked as a factory worker making terrariums and then as a dental technician but was motivated to start his own newspaper as a passion.
He did editorial work and advertisements for Mai and other Canadian companies to promote cash transfers and travel services to Vietnam.
[5] The fourth journalist assassinated came two years later, when Nhen Trong Do was shot dead in his car in Fairfax County, Virginia.
[5] After one of the murders, Giang Huu Tuyen, the publisher of Viet Bao, said, "I worry that one day somebody will come into my office and say to me, 'I don't like your paper.'