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 ...
By Anne Marie Amacher The Catholic Messenger (This is the third part of a series on Catholics originally from Asia ...Read ...
Vietnamese Catholics and intellectuals have commended foreign missionaries and ancestors for developing the national writing system that helped spread Catholicism around the country. Some 200 people, ...
Calls flooded Vietnamese community leader Tri Trang’s phone on the morning of Saturday, Jan. 24, as word spread that federal agents had shot and killed an observer in the Whittier neighborhood of ...
At the boat dock in Bayou La Batre Alabama, shrimp boat Captain Truc Le unties a thick mooring line attached to his blue and white vessel with the name “Lucky Kim” painted on the side. Le and his wife ...
Father John Thang Pham says goodbye to a church member following the Sunday morning service at the Vietnamese Martyrs Church in Biloxi on August 23rd, 2020. Lukas Flippo lflippo@sunherald.com When ...
The swift fall of the Afghan government to the Taliban and the refugee crisis in the conflict-torn nation is a painful reminder to many Vietnamese-Americans, many of whom were forced to leave their ...
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 ...
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 ...