[2] Among Tia Sáng’s first contributors are Hoàng Tụy, the founder of Vietnamese mathematics; Phan Dinh Dieu who helped to build the ICT field in Vietnam;[3] Viet Phuong, a poet, former secretary of Lê Duẩn; Lê Đạt, one of the pioneers in Nhan Van – Giai Pham movement,[4] writer Nguyen Ngoc.

Many articles published in Tia Sáng were featured and discussed on BBC (Vietnamese version) such as Hoang Tuy’s article about the intellectuals’ attitude toward the social issues in Vietnam[5] or the opinion piece of Tuong Lai, former director of Institute of Sociology about what communist party’s mission should be.

[7] Some contributors of Tia Sáng were or are prisoners of conscience such as Phạm Đoan Trang,[8] Lê Công Định.

NAFOSTED is a science funding mechanism in Vietnam that gives scientists more freedom in doing research but demands higher quality in their scientific output.

Tia Sáng also co-founded the Ta Quang Buu Prize that tribute scientists in basic science.