What is Viet-Cajun cuisine and how did it come about? As a Vietnamese chef who grew up in New Orleans, I get asked this question a lot. Vietnamese immigrants created Viet-Cajun cuisine upon landing on ...

How would your identity be shaped if you had to escape your home country by boat? In this bonus episode, Sarah speaks with fellow podcast host Tracey Nguyen Mang, who fled Vietnam with her family at ...

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. And as more ...

On March 8, 1965, at 9 a.m., United States marines landed on a beach ten miles north of the city of Da Nang, South Vietnam. Americans had been providing direct military support in South Vietnam since ...

The exodus of the Vietnamese people was a global humanitarian crisis whose impact continues. The exodus of the Vietnamese people in the '70s, '80s and '90s, was a major global humanitarian crisis that ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. Lý Diệu Anh was just 6 when she ...

In Vietnam, the laughter of an emoji is often not about humor at all. It can mean disbelief, sarcasm, frustration, or quiet ...

The country is entering one of the fastest aging transitions in Asia — before it has built the social welfare system ...