Located in California’s Orange County, Little Saigon is a thriving neighborhood of restaurants, shops, and businesses run ...

San Jose’s Vietnamese community sees no shortage of milestones, activism and political drama every year — 2025 was no ...

As the Little Saigon community gathers to celebrate Tết, the Lunar New Year, we know a little bit more about its residents than before in its nearly 50 years. Many of this year’s celebrations – ...

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 ...

Fifty years ago, one Saigon fell, and another arose. It was never supposed to be that way. On April 30, 1975, the communist North Vietnamese Army captured the democratic South Vietnamese capital. The ...

The first time David Nguyen voted for a Democrat was in 2008 when he chose Barack Obama, the first Black president in U.S. history. Despite being a registered Republican who grew up in a ...

On April 30, Vietnamese Americans in Southern California will commemorate the 50th anniversary of Saigon’s fall to North Vietnamese forces – Black April as the refugees who fled call it today. About ...

WESTMINSTER, Calif. — When the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese forces 50 years ago this week, it prompted a mass exodus of some 2 million people — hundreds of thousands ...

The textured mat is already on the table as Tony Lam sits down to shuffle the polished tiles. He is here to participate in a ritual that he observes four days a week, a pursuit that keeps his "head in ...