As early as April 2009, Le Van Thanh and his brother-in-law Vu Duc Trung broadcast Chinese-language radio programs on short-wave frequencies on the Sound of Hope Network from their farm in the town of Thach Loi, on the outskirts of Hanoi [REF].
Epoch Times stated that SOH's radio broadcasts into mainland China were a major contributor to breaking the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP's) control of news and media in the country.