Stay updated with breaking news from கேட் வலை. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
5/31/2021 I never fought in the Vietnam War. I joined United Press International, a worldwide wire service, in 1975 at the end of that conflict. My heroes were UPI war correspondents Leon Daniel, Kate Webb and Joseph L. Galloway. Daniel was a friend. He died in 2006. Webb was a role model and later, mentor. She died in 2007. I knew Galloway, interviewed for this piece, from his legendary combat accounts. . ....
Persecuted Myanmar journalist to seek asylum in Spain 2 minutes read Bangkok, May 31 (EFE).- Burmese journalist Mratt Kyaw Thu is set to seek asylum in Spain after managing to escape Myanmar, where the military junta had issued an arrest warrant against him for his coverage of protests against the Feb. 1 coup. Mratt, who has worked as a contributor for EFE in Myanmar since October 2018, is set to travel to Madrid on Tuesday from the Frankfurt airport in Germany, where he has spent four weeks in a detention center. “Myanmar is now an extremely dangerous country for journalists, already many have been arrested. As a journalist, if you are arrested you become nothing. We have to be free to be able to do our job,” he told EFE from a landline phone at the detention center, where he has not been allowed to use his mobile phone or access internet. ....
From the Archives, 1971: Reporter home after Viet Cong kidnapping ordeal We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Staff Writers Normal text size I want to go back to war, says Kate Webb SYDNEY. Frail and tiny, Kate Webb, the Sydney journalist who spent 23 days as a prisoner of the Viet Cong, arrived in Sydney yesterday. Kate Webb faces the microphones after returning to Australia. Credit:Staff photo “I have friends there”, she said. Miss Webb was almost unrecognisable as the attractive, dark, 28-year-old whose face has become familiar among the pages of newspapers and magazines since she was released from captivity last week. ....