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 ...

A longtime Little Saigon property owner is suing the City of Seattle, alleging that its homelessness policies have devastated his family’s real estate investments. Dennis L. Chinn filed a federal ...

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 – ...

NEIGHBORHOOD ALIVE. ON SACRAMENTO’S STOCKTON BOULEVARD. INSIDE THIS VIETNAMESE RESTAURANT, TRADITION IS IMPORTANT. THE RESTAURANT’S BEEN HERE ABOUT 19 YEARS, BUT MY HUSBAND AND I TOOK OVER RIGHT ...

Little Saigon is in decline and has been for some time. Fewer than 300 people live here, but then this small, tightly framed district has long centered on commerce, rife with struggling Vietnamese ...

A Vietnamese-operated shop at Wilson Blvd and N. Hudson Street, circa 1987 (photo by Michael Horsley, via Echoes of Little Saigon Project) A marker celebrating a former cluster of Vietnamese ...

As the southern city of Saigon fell and South Vietnamese residents fled, tens of thousands made their way to the United States and many to Orange County where they gave birth to Little Saigon. And in ...

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 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 ...

For anyone who’s visited the many shops, businesses and restaurants in the South Federal strip that’s become known as Little Saigon, the district is a much-loved destination as an ethnic enclave for ...

Dodging artillery fire and the blooms of fiery explosions, the family of 10 ran fiercely toward the promise of America. “It was to find freedom,” said Vinh Nguyen, who was 15 when his family almost ...