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Vietnamese singer Do Nguyen Mai Khoi sings at a performance in Hanoi, Vietnam, May 21, 2016.
Vietnam’s own ‘Lady Gaga’ is a controversial singer who is barred from performing at home
An African American man sits on a stair step with a towel around his neck
Arts, Culture & Media
For black GIs in Saigon, ‘Soul Alley’ was an oasis of food and vice
Morley Safer, correspondent for CBS News, reporting on the systematic burning of South Vietnamese villages by US Marines in Cam Ne, Vietnam, 1965.
Conflict
Morley Safer’s coverage of the Vietnam War changed everything
Poet and essayist Ocean Vuong was born in Saigon and raised in Hartford, Connecticut.
Books
Read this brilliant new poet’s take on the US immigrant experience
"In Terror in Little Saigon," Frontline and ProPublica investigate the unsolved murders of a series of Vietnamese-American journalists across the US, including Nguyen Dam Phong of Houston.
Conflict
‘Terror in Little Saigon’ — an old war comes to a new country
North Vietnamese troops and Saigon residents eye each other on the streets of the city on April 30th, 1975, the day the city fell to the government in Hanoi.
Conflict
A journalist remembers the ‘quite eerie’ calm after the fall of Saigon
Conflict
Remembering a father’s amazing act to rescue his family from Vietnam’s collapse
Volunteers with Asian Americans Advancing Justice, an Los Angeles-based non-profit, work the phones to get Asian-American voters to the polls in California. The phone bank is part of the "Your Vote Matters" campaign, an effort to get 30,000 infrequent vot
Global Politics
Getting Asian immigrants in the US to vote means breaking the language barrier
General Vo Nguyen Giap speaking during an interview in Hanoi, in 2004, on the 50th anniversary of his stunning and decisive defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu.
Conflict & Justice
Vo Nguyen Giap, America’s nemesis in Vietnam, dies at 102