As a researcher, writer, and humanitarian aid activist, Ms Lady Bortons has been living and working in Vietnam since 1978.
She is author of two books on Vietnam (After the sorrow, about Vietnamese woman during and after two wars with the French and the American; Sensing the enemy, about Vietnamese boat people) and co-author with C.David Thomas of the book Ho Chi Minh- a portrait. She is now gathering documentation to write another book about President Ho Chi Minh. Lady Borton is known and loved by many Vietnamese, because she has been twice a special guest of VTV3’s “Our contemporaries”.