From 1975: South Vietnamese refugees were referring to Washington Gov. Daniel J. Evans as the “friendliest American.” “The state of Washington, alone among the 50 states, has developed its own ...

For over a month, a 43-year-old Vietnamese man has been sitting in a Louisiana detention center waiting to see whether he will be deported to a country he fled as a boy. Huy Quoc Phan, who has an ...

From 1975: About 50 Vietnamese refugees were about to arrive in Spokane for “the gradual process of resettlement” in Eastern Washington. They were on a flight from Camp Pendleton in California to the ...

The fall of Saigon 50 years ago prompted a mass exodus of Vietnamese over the next months and years. Many were evacuated by the United States military and brought to America to resettle. And as more ...

This April, known as Black April in the Vietnamese American community, marks 50 years since the fall of Saigon — the day South Vietnam’s capital fell to communist forces on April 30, 1975, and the end ...

Fifty years ago today, as the communist North Vietnamese army took control of Saigon, 16-year-old Chinh Nguyen and his family fled on boats from their homeland. The teenager and seven of his siblings ...

Subscribe to LA Public Press to get stories like this in your inbox every week. Fifty years after the Vietnam War, these ...

April 30 marked the 50th anniversary of the fall of South Vietnam to the North Vietnamese Communists. Its ensuing refugee crisis was the beginning of the Vietnamese Diaspora. The panic of flight found ...

Hanoi/Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam – Although a child of war refugees, Victoria Ngo got to learn more about her Vietnamese identity only during her college years in the United States in the 1990s. The ...

Peter Nguyen’s first English sentence at 9 years old was “Give me candy,” after his grandfather carried him away from the naval base their family had been staying at. They were fleeing Northern ...