If you are visiting or passing through Little Saigon, it is impossible not to feel concern or distress over what is visible on the blocks around 12th Avenue and Jackson Street, the heart of our ...

Hung Vu, 73, a former South Vietnamese army officer who left the country in 1975, poses with a photo of himself taken during the Vietnam War at his army surplus store in the Little Saigon neighborhood ...

Local Vietnamese-American leaders at City Council recognition (screenshot via City of Falls Church) The Falls Church City Council marked the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon last week with a ...

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 ...

The helicopters had to go to make room for more helicopters carrying Americans and South Vietnamese to land aboard the ships of naval Task Force 76, which had been assembled off the coast to aid in ...

Editor's note: This story was clarified to make clear that Anita Emrich called senators and others to advocate for the evacuation of all children from An Lac orphanage, not just Adele Lamb. It was ...

People try to scale the 14-foot wall of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, trying to reach evacuation helicopters, as the last of the Americans depart from Vietnam. The war ended on April 30, 1975, with the ...

Falls Church officials used the recent unveiling of “Saigon Blvd” signage to reaffirm support of the city’s immigrant and second-generation communities. Following up on a promise two years in the ...

They wait for new customers to come along looking for a moving front-row seat of Saigon's swirling traffic. Bargain first, agree on a fixed price for the day and wheel past yellow and blue painted ...

WESTMINSTER, Calif. (AP) — 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 ...