Last year, as the US and Vietnam marked 30 years of normalized relations, a new group of “citizen diplomats” arrived in ...

Nearly 25 years ago, Roberto Torres moved from the Mexican state of Guerrero to Orange County, landing a job as a dishwasher at a Vietnamese restaurant. Torres was part of a tide of immigration from ...

Every week, nearly three dozen adults pile into a small law office on Brookhurst Avenue to shoot the breeze – in Vietnamese. The classes include business owners, a Vietnamese rapper, a Fulbright ...

The Westminster school system in California’s Orange County has opened the state’s first English-Vietnamese dual-language-immersion program. Kindergarten students at DeMille Elementary School will be ...

Kim Vorasai, a 41-year-old Portlander who emigrated from Vietnam at age five, never learned to write or read in her native language. Back then, Vorasai said, Portland Public Schools’ educational ...

What would parents do in order to ensure their children receive a good education? For the parents of Phong Chan and his four brothers, it meant leaving a comfortable life and learning everything all ...

Two flags hang in Van Vu’s classroom at Murdy Elementary School in Garden Grove: one red, white and blue, the other yellow with red stripes – the flag of the former South Vietnam that’s still widely ...

Roland Skinner just returned from a business trip to the Far East. He travels to Viet Nam three times a year to represent a Biloxi importer. Skinner said "I review his contracts when he gets into a ...