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fall of Saigon

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Culture
Vietnamese Americans in Boston mark the day their country ceased to exist
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
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Media
Why you won’t see Ho Chi Minh City appear in this newspaper in California
Several dozen Vietnamese demonstrators protest against what they described as human rights violations in the former South Vietnam on April 30, 1998 at city hall in Orlando, Florida.
Conflict
Forty years after Vietnam, a refugee relives his journey from Saigon to San Francisco
California professor leading project to get Vietnamese immigrant to tell their own story
Arts, Culture & Media
Vietnamese Immigrants Remember Life in the Old Country