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 ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- There's a common thread among many children of Vietnamese refugees. It's the desire to succeed, knowing how much their parents have struggled and sacrificed to get to the ...

Betty Duong said that everyone she speaks with in her Vietnamese American community has a different feeling about April 30, 1975, when American soldiers pulled out of South Vietnam and the war ...

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 ...

Eve Stephens, the first Asian American woman to lead any University of Texas (UT) System police department, has filed a ...

It was 50 years ago this summer that hundreds of Vietnamese refugees escaping communism began flocking into Pensacola to build new lives. Most spoke little to no English, but in that half-century they ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- As ABC7 Chicago celebrates Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, a documentary was screened for Chicago audiences this week. It's called "New Wave." The film shines a ...

PARISH GROWS IN DIVERSITY, WITH SEVERAL ETHNICITIES CALLING JEFFERSON HOME. AND THAT INCLUDES ASIAN AMERICANS. MAY IS ASIAN AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER HERITAGE MONTH. THAT’S RIGHT. AND THIS YEAR, ...

Wednesday marked 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War. As a result of the north’s victory, an estimated 120,000 Vietnamese refugees fled to communities all over the U.S. — including to San José.

Hundreds of Vietnamese refugees escaping communism began flocking to Pensacola 50 years ago According to U.S. Census data, less than 3% of Escambia County's population is Asian, which includes Vietnam ...