News Archive

By Lisa Grace Lednicer | OregonLive

PORTLAND, OREGON – A raucous reception greeted senior Linda Nguyen, 17, as she was crowned David Douglas High School’s Rose Festival princess Tuesday.

By Juliana Barbassa | Associated Press

SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA – To outsiders, the banners flanking a six-lane thoroughfare in the heart of Silicon Valley, “Welcome to Little Saigon”, blend innocuously with the suburban landscape of ethnic restaurants, nail salons and check cashing outlets.

By Tay Shi’an | AsiaOne

SINGAPORE – She lies in a coma, oblivious to a three-way tussle over mounting hospital bills and her future.

By Claire Martin | Denver Post

LOVELAND, COLORADO – In 1975, at age 18, Binh Nguyen escaped from Saigon, barely avoiding the approaching North Vietnamese army.

By Jessie Mangaliman | San Jose Mercury News

SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA – As a young college student studying Oriental philosophy in Saigon during the early part of the Vietnam War, Vuong Nguyen was hired by the American military to be a radio news writer and reader.

By Susan Abram | LA Daily News

OAK PARK, CALIFORNIA – She has been here before.

Award-winning architect Vo Trong Nghia, creator of the unique bamboo structure Wind and Water Café, on using environment-friendly materials in modern structures.

By Thu Ha | Vietnews Online

Taking children to a developing country takes planning, but is rewarding.

By Cathryn J. Prince  | The Christian Science Monitor

By Larry Ward | Ahwatukee Foothills News

PHOENIX, ARIZONA – This is Andy Nguyen’s last season on a high school tennis court, and with the exception of Mountain Pointe, there aren’t any programs in the state of Arizona sorry about that.

By Thuy Hang | Vietnews Online

SOUTH KOREA – A 26-year-old Vietnamese wife who lost custody of the children she bore to her South Korean husband has become the latest “desperate housewife” case to stir public opinion in Vietnam and South Korea.