 He was a frequent contributor to Asian American publications such as "AsianWeek" and "Rafu Shimpo", as well as popular newspapers such as the "San Francisco Examiner" and the "Los Angeles Times".In 1975, Chu-Lin was the first CBS reporter to broadcast nationally the news about the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War.He was also in Beijing for the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.