A “genuine lifesaver”, according to my students. 📍Lecturer in Digital Journalism, Goldsmiths, University of London 📍Lecturer in Multimedia Journalism at the University of East London 📍Digital and Social Media Trainer, BBC Academy 🥋Second Dan black belt in karate. @hunginternet on LinkedIn I walked more than 800 km for climate change in 2021 - https://youtu.be/pXQYB4DUM6w 👨‍👧‍👦Super proud dad. Two older kids got into Cambridge already 😍. 👍My YouTube videos still gain views for the BBC while I sleep. 🎉 The most watched one for BBC Vietnamese has 50 million minutes of watch-time from 5 million plus views - bit.ly/general_dao. Listen to the former South Vietnam general Le Minh Dao sing in French by following the link above. 💔After the fall of Saigon in 1975, the general was sent to ‘re-education’ camp for 17 years during which time his wife and nine kids escaped the country by boat. He was later released in the 90s, joined his family in the US, re-married and died in 2020. 🎉 Proud to have trained BBC journalists in many overseas offices including Bangkok, Delhi, Jakarta, Kathmandu, Kyiv, Lagos, Nairobi and Seoul. I have also trained Radio Free Asia staff in DC via Skype. 📈Grew BBC Vietnamese Facebook page from 0 in 2011 to 1 million fans in 2014. 🧱Built BBC Vietnamese YouTube channel from virtually nothing in 2014 to some 50 million minutes watched a month in 2017/2018. It reached a million subscribers in April 2021. 👍Debunking disinformation 👍Creating social media content. 👍Digital content strategy 👍 Social storytelling for businesses. 👍Filming and editing with smartphones. 👦 Once a poor and shy little boy from Vietnam 🇻🇳 Still poor but much less shy 😀 Once upon a time: BBC Digital Editor for South Asia BBC Social Media Editor for East Asia Digital and Social Media Trainer, BBC Radio 4 News Presenter and Deputy Head, BBC Vietnamese Service Producer, The World Today, BBC WS Producer, Mutimedia Hub, BBC WS Press and Publicity Officer, IBM Vietnam News Editor, Vietnam Investment Review 📸 Take photos with my Sony A7RIII and iPhone 7 Plus Have been to 🇳🇵🇺🇦🇳🇬🇰🇪🇹🇭🇮🇩🇮🇳🇰🇷🇸🇪🇩🇪🇫🇷🇸🇬 🇺🇸🇬🇷🇧🇪🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇷🇺🇯🇵🇭🇰🇪🇸 🇭🇷 ❤️Fell in love with San Francisco😘 🤟Speak Vietnamese, English, still remember some Russian, slowly learning Mandarin. Still learning to play the 🎸