First Viet-Am wins two Emmy awards
12:54' 08/01/2009 (GMT+7)

VietNamNet Bridge - Leyna Nguyen was the first Vietnamese-American woman who won two Emmy awards at the 60th Annual Emmy Awards in September 6, 2008, after years of serving as a television anchor and reporter in the USA.

The awards were for hosting the “2007 Special Olympics Summer Games,” and “Heal the Bay”. She received the two awards just two months after giving birth to her second child.

Leyna Nguyen was born in 1969 in Dong Ha town, central Quang Tri province, Vietnam. She came to the United States with her family in 1975. She earned a degree in Mass Communications from Webster University in St. Louis where Leyna did “Morning Drive” for the jazz radio station WEBU during her studies.

After graduating, Leyna was a news anchor and reporter at KCRA in Sacramento, where she also hosted a quarterly program on Asian American issues. She started her television broadcast career at the CBS affiliate WRDW-TV in Augusta, Georgia. In 1987 she was crowned “Miss Asia” and in 1996 she was chosen “YWCA Woman of the Year”.

She came to KCAL-TV in Los Angeles in December 1997 as a weekend anchor and reporter, and distinguished herself as one of the station’s most able and popular news reporter.

Today, she is back with CBS, reporting for both KCBS and KCAL, in addition to anchoring weekend evening newscasts on KCAL.

In 1995, Leyna Nguyen was nominated for an Emmy Award for the first time for her report ‘Vietnam: The Journey Back’. She was nominated a second time for a report that brought a tear to her eyes when seeing a poor child needing an organ transplant in California. She has had a total of seven nominations.

Apart from success in her television career, Leyna Nguyen has also played supporting roles in several Hollywood films, including Paparazzi, Duplex, The Day After Tomorrow and the Price of Glory.

She was Master of Ceremonies for Asia Entertainment, Miss Vietnam Global 2007 and was also honoured as one of the “25 Most Influential Vietnamese-Americans in 25 Years” in 2000.

In 1991, Leyna Nguyen took part in numerous charity activities to help poor children in Vietnam. Since then, Leyna has built and renovated several schools in Vietnam through her non-profit foundation Love Across the Ocean, which benefits underprivileged children and their families.

This lady has both beauty and brain. I dont care much for Trinh Hoi but I do miss her MCing for Trung Tam Asia

This lady has both beauty and brain. I dont care much for Trinh Hoi but I do miss her MCing for Trung Tam Asia

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I didn´t know she is that successfull in America. Well, I live in Europe. But still I never really liked her.

I hope she has enough brain to understand the real causes of Viet Nam war and problems.

Not only that I heard she also did alot of charital work in Hue, where she was born. I see confidence in her for showing her Vietnamese-American heritage proudly and staying connected to Vietnam.

Betty Nguyen can outplay her in hosting and beauty

But she is mix. She is half white. And she does not speak Vietnamese at all. So, no way does she outplay Leyna Nguyen. =)

^^^ betty does speak viet ... she does charity in vn all the time




http://www.asianweek.com/2005/05/27/betty-...unusual-course/

Racist.

If they both can understand this and do charity work, then both are just as good. What is the problem?

Here's the link,

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/lifestyle/2009/01/822795/


Apparently, Leyna Nguyen had undergone plastic surgery to look like Betty Nguyen.

^^ LMAO they use the wrong picture thats betty in the picture

The writer of that story should get an Emmy for Numbskull Reporter of the Year.