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Of those who survived, many resettled in San Jose, now home to the largest Vietnamese population in a single city outside Vietnam. One in 10 San Jose residents and more than 150,000 in Santa Clara ...
The fall of Saigon 50 years ago prompted a mass exodus of Vietnamese over the next months and years. Many were evacuated by the United States military and brought to America to resettle.
PHOTO ESSAY: for the Vietnamese Diaspora, Saigon's Fall 50 Years Ago Evokes Mixed Emotions WESTMINSTER, Calif. (AP) — When the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese ...
“So, now I’m admitting that I’m half-Vietnamese,” she said. “And that was something that I never even shared with anybody. I was ashamed of how I was born.” Bynum was born in the ...
Some, like Tawn Nguyen, were children on April 30, 1975, when the North Vietnamese forces captured the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon, marking the end of the Vietnam War. Just 9 years old ...
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 ...
HANOI, April 30 (Reuters) - Much has changed in Vietnamese life in the 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War. The streets of the once-impoverished country now bustle with commerce and young ...
HO CHI MINH CITY - Thousands of Vietnamese celebrated the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War on Wednesday, in what the country's communist leader said was a "victory of faith".
The American withdrawal led to thousands of Vietnamese refugees fleeing their home country for a better life. Many of them found a home on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and still continue building ...
SAN JOSE, California (KGO) -- Since the Fall of Saigon 50 years ago, more than 100,000 Vietnamese Americans now call San Jose home. Every May, the Ao Dai Festival brings the community together to ...