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Actress' Downfall Shows Culture Shift in Vietnam

By Michael Sullivan

Published November 12, 2007 at 1:00 PM PST

This story was published more than 17 years ago.

A 19-year-old TV actress in Vietnam bid a tearful goodbye to her TV show after a sex video of her and her boyfriend appeared on the Internet. The government took the actress' program off the air.

The incident reveals how rapidly Vietnam's conservative culture is changing.

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Michael Sullivan

Michael Sullivan is NPR's Senior Asia Correspondent. He moved to Hanoi to open NPR's Southeast Asia Bureau in 2003. Before that, he spent six years as NPR's South Asia correspondent based in but seldom seen in New Delhi.

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