Thuy Vu is a Vietnamese-American journalist, anchor, reporter and international corporate business mentor.
10 Facts About Thuy Vu
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Thuy Vu was named by the San Jose Mercury News and East Bay Times as one of the San Francisco Bay Area's most Inspiring Women.
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Thuy Vu fled the country with her family by boat and settled in Duluth, Minnesota.
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Thuy Vu is a 1985 graduate of Independence High School in San Jose, California.
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Thuy Vu joined CBS in December 2005, working out of the San Jose bureau, and remained with CBS in various capacities until 2012.
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Thuy Vu was an Emmy award-winning news anchor and reporter for CBS-5 "Eyewitness News" in San Francisco.
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Thuy Vu co-hosted the final year of KPIX's "Eye on the Bay" until original production ceased in May 2012.
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Thuy Vu won two national awards from the Asian American Journalists Association.
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Thuy Vu has won honors from the Public Radio News Directors Association.
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Thuy Vu earned Emmy and Associated Press awards for a feature on the 30th anniversary of the Operation Babylift flights at the end of the Vietnam war and co-anchored live coverage of the fatal tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo in December 2007 and for her investigation of safety problems at California's amusement parks.