When Hurricane Katrina devastated our city and the task of rebuilding seemed insurmountable, our city found an unexpected source of strength and wisdom in a community that knew the meaning of profound ...

Seven-year-old Vương Ngọc Lan ascended from a pit of fish guts and human waste inside a 50-foot dinghy to a 935-foot tanker named after the Virgo constellation. She was one of 2 million “boat people” ...

Former members of the South Vietnamese police and military salute as a color guard marches by bearing the flags of the United States and South Vietnam during an indoor ceremony of the 50th anniversary ...

In 1984, volunteers stood outside supermarkets in Orange County, clipboards in hand, helping fellow Vietnamese Americans register to vote. Van Tran, then a freshman at UC Irvine, was one of them. The ...

For Ngoc-Tran Vu, the fall of Saigon, the pivotal event, concluding on April 30, 1975, that finally marked the end of the bloody quagmire that was the Vietnam War, is more than just history. It’s her ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When Joseph Dang and his parents fled Vietnam in 1986, they escaped by boat. Dang, then 10 years old, recalls the terror he ...

The film “Letní škola, 2001” (Summer school, 2001) just hit cinemas in the Czech Republic. It tells the story of the different identity crises faced by some members of the now 80,000-strong Vietnamese ...