Visitors can see examples of 19th-century Vietnamese newspapers,and archives from the Indochinese wars of the forties and fifties, in which France lost its colonial power, and from American backed wars of the sixties and seventies, during which many journalists lost their lives.
Contemporary Vietnam ranks 175th out of 180 nations in Journalists’ Without Borders press freedom league table. Two journalists critical of the government were arrested just last month - and now risk lengthy jail sentences.
