June 19, 2011: Over 500 Vietnamese Americans gathered to commemorate South Vietnamese Army Day. Afterward, 300 of them marched in an hour-long protest around Seattle’s Little Saigon district. They called for China to give up claims over the Spratley and Paracel Islands in the East Pacific Sea, Bien-Dong (“South China Sea”). The Vietnamese Coalition of […]
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Tatsuo Nakata Youth Award: Mary Nguyen A lion for justice and equality
LTS.- Cô Mary Nguyễn được giải Tatsuo Nakata của Tiếng Nói Cộng đồng của tuần báo International Examiner, tổ chức vào ngày 18 tháng 5 tại nhà hàng Tea Palace. Giải này dành cho những thanh niên có nhiều đóng góp cho “công lý và sự công bằng”. Cô Mary cũng là nhà tổ chức […]
Vietnamese American film “Touch” screens tonight at SIFF
Tam is a lovely and talented Vietnamese-American manicurist, but she has never been able to fully connect with the men she dates. After taking a new position at the V.I.P. Nails salon, she does well at her job but doesn’t seem to fit in with the other girls, who gossip endlessly and insult the clueless […]
The Bay Area- a Cultural Melting Pot: a Review of East Eats West by Andrew Lam
When asked about the importance of the “gold boom” in California, one would most likely omit the effect it had on ethnic minorities- especially the Vietnamese living in the United States. However, in Andrew Lam’s most recent book- East Eats West (2010) the Bay area of San Francisco and it’s Vietnamese population serves as the […]
36th Commemorative Anniversary of the Fall of Saigon in Tacoma
The Vietnamese Community of Tacoma organized an event to commemorate the 36th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon at Lincoln High School, attracting hundreds of Vietnamese and non-Vietnamese.
Video: Seattle Pho-Natics visit Pho So 1
Update: This story was recently picked up in the Seattle Times Food & Wine section. The Seattle Pho-Natics is a group of random friends and strangers from facebook who visit a different Pho place every month, in order to sample all the local flavors. Fitting enough, the first location that the group ever visited was […]