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Thuy Vu

Thuy is an award-winning reporter at CBS 5, reporting primarily for the 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. newscasts. She joined the station in December 2005, based in the San Jose bureau.

This is her second stint at the station. She was at KPIX as a reporter and fill-in anchor for four years in the 1990's. She has also worked at KTVU-TV as a reporter and fill-in anchor and at ABC7 as a weekend morning anchor and reporter.

Thuy started her journalism career in public radio at KQED-FM in San Francisco. She later moved on to National Public Radio (NPR), where she first covered Congress and national politics in Washington, D.C. before returning to their San Francisco bureau.

Thuy has won numerous regional and national awards, including an Emmy, a Best Serious Feature award from the Associated Press Television and Radio Association and a Best Reporter award from American Women in Radio and Television. She has also won three national awards from the Asian American Journalists Association, along with honors from the Peninsula Press Club and the Public Radio News Directors Association.

Thuy has covered many major stories, including the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, the 1991 Oakland Hills fire, the O.J. Simpson trial and verdict in Los Angeles and the mass cult suicide of Heaven's Gate members in Rancho Santa Fe.

In 2000, she traveled to Washington, D.C. to cover the historic U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the contested Florida vote in the presidential election. Thuy has also returned to her homeland of Vietnam twice for special reports on the country's post-war life.

She was the recipient of a Jefferson Fellowship from the University of Hawaii's East-West Center in 1992. At the time, she was the youngest person ever admitted to the competitive program. As a fellow, she traveled throughout Asia for one month to better understand the cultures and governments of the region.

Thuy immigrated from Vietnam in 1975, fleeing the country with her family as Saigon fell to the communists.

She is a member of the Asian American Journalists Association and is on the board of directors for the Asian Pacific Fund. She holds a Bachelor's Degree with Honors in Rhetoric from U.C. Berkeley.

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