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 ...

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 – ...

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 ...

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 ...

National campaigns often see Little Saigon as more than just a symbolic stop, said Christian Collet, a political scientist at Tokyo Christian University who has studied Vietnamese diaspora politics.