Viet Film Fest Returns For Its 10th Edition
Arts & Culture
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PREVIEW: Organizers of the Viet Film Fest took a year off in 2017, but are back this month with renewed energy and purpose.
Voting Wars: What Is Keeping Asian-Americans From the Polls?
Election 2016
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They are the fastest-growing racial group in the U.S., have the highest income and are the best educated. But they have the lowest voter participation of any demographic group due largely to language, cultural barriers and discrimination.
Clinton Comes to Little Saigon, But Vietnamese Mostly Stay Away
Election 2016
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton yesterday became the first presidential candidate to visit Little Saigon, but few Vietnamese voters came out to greet her.
Unpaid Debts Fuel Controversy Over Competing Tet Festivals
Little Saigon
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Organizers of this year’s Orange County Tet Festival at Mile Square Park still owe venders at least $50,000 for February’s Lunar New Year celebration.
Westminster Works to Free Little Saigon of Traffic Woes
Little Saigon
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The city of Westminster is vying for funds from the Orange County Transportation Authority so it can offer a free public bus connecting residential communities close to Little Saigon to major shopping centers.
Son of Murdered Vietnamese Journalist Defends Controversial Documentary
Little Saigon
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A ProPublica/PBS Frontline documentary, “Terror in Little Saigon,” has stoked a wide range of reactions in the Vietnamese American community with its investigation into a string of murders of Vietnamese American journalists in the 1980s.
New Documentary Opens Old Wounds in Little Saigon
Little Saigon
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A groundbreaking PBS documentary delves into the murders of five Vietnamese American journalists between 1980 and 1990, and the now abandoned FBI investigation into their deaths.
Exiled Activists Fight for Freedom in Vietnam
Community Columnists
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Hao-Nhien Vu, also known as the Bolsavik, writes on issues related to Little Saigon and this week he talks to exiled bloggers Dieu Cay and Ta Phong Tan.
Two Tet Festival Organizers Ousted Amid Embezzlement Allegations
News Briefs
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The student group that organizes an annual Lunar New Year festival in Little Saigon has removed two of its top leaders for allegedly embezzling over $118,000.
Struggles of Second Generation Reveal Long Shadow of War
Countywide
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The author and other adult children of Vietnamese refugees talk about how the fall of Saigon shaped the experiences and character of their generation.