Tracy La, founder and executive director of VietRISE, writes about the march and rally in Little Saigon calling for Vietnamese-American elected officials to “bring human rights home.”
Tag: Little Saigon
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Little Saigon Night Market Blossoms Under the Summer Stars
To get a taste of Vietnamese night markets, you only have to go as far as Westminster.
Posted inARTS & CULTURE, Culture, Garden Grove, Top Stories, Westminster
Little Saigon Tet Parade Marches On Despite the Rain
The Year of the Pig is celebrated in Little Saigon at the annual Tet Parade.
Posted inARTS & CULTURE, Culture, Garden Grove, Top Stories, Westminster
Solving the Mystery Behind the Numbers of Your Favorite Pho Restaurants
A look into why many local pho restaurants use numbers as a part of their name.
Posted inARTS & CULTURE, Culture, Garden Grove, Orange, Top Stories, Visual Arts, Westminster
Viet Film Fest Returns For Its 10th Edition
PREVIEW: Organizers of the Viet Film Fest took a year off in 2017, but are back this month with renewed energy and purpose.
Posted inCountywide, Politics & Elections, Top Stories
Voting Wars: What Is Keeping Asian-Americans From the Polls?
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.
Posted inCountywide, News Briefs, Politics & Elections, Top Stories, Westminster
Clinton Comes to Little Saigon, But Vietnamese Mostly Stay Away
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.
Posted inCountywide, Garden Grove, Top Stories, Transportation, Westminster
Unpaid Debts Fuel Controversy Over Competing Tet Festivals
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.
Posted inCountywide, Health & Wellness, Top Stories, Transportation, Westminster
Westminster Works to Free Little Saigon of Traffic Woes
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.
Posted inCountywide, Garden Grove, Health & Wellness, Top Stories, Westminster
Son of Murdered Vietnamese Journalist Defends Controversial Documentary
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.
