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Mike Honda: "I Was Outraged"
Each day since Hurricane Katrina descended upon the Gulf Coast, Americans have viewed images of the devastation suffered by residents of the region, particularly those in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. And each day, individual Americans have shown their generosity and compassion by offering assistance to those who have lost everything.
[Posted 9/30/05]

Grants Support Better Access to Medical and Mental Health Care
HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt today announced the award of more than $12 million to support minority individuals, families, and children affected by the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina.
[Posted 9/30/05]

Help Arrives for Vietnamese Storm Victims
Tuan Nguyen's rental home in Biloxi washed away in Hurricane Katrina.
[Posted 9/30/05]

Garden Grove Official's Apology Satisfies Crowd
Some had considered councilman's earlier remark at a meeting anti-Vietnamese.
[Posted 9/28/05]

Day to Remember
Family and friends of stranded Vietnamese boat people are overjoyed at their arrival in the U.S.
[Posted 9/27/05]

Vietnamese Boat People Arrive in L.A.
For 16 years, 229 Vietnamese refugees lived in the Philippines without permanent residency status or legal rights. But their long journey to a new home ended when they arrived in the United States on a chartered flight.
[Posted 9/27/05]

Asian Women Shy Away from Cervical-Cancer Tests
Health workers spread message: Lives can be saved.
[Posted 9/26/05]

The Morning Read: No Time to Rest
Assemblyman Van Tran's freshman year in Sacramento mixed frustration over his lack of influence with ambition to continue in the political game.
[Posted 9/25/05]

Panel: Education, Voting Among Issues of Concern for VA Asians
In the late 1980s, while everyone from school administrators to Sesame Street was busy reinforcing the importance of teaching children Spanish, Fairfax County educators had reached a radically different conclusion: The next generation needed to know Japanese.
[Posted 9/25/05]

Official's Remark is Called Bigoted
At a Sept. 13 meeting of the city's redevelopment agency, Councilman Harry Krebs responded to repeated questioning by Councilwoman Janet Nguyen with "I already expressed it very simply — I can't do it in Vietnamese."
[Posted 9/22/05]

Vietnamese Bishop Seeks to Calm a Worried Flock
Dominic Luong of the Diocese of Orange returns to a parish where he helped refugees after the fall of Saigon in 1975.
[Posted 9/22/05]

Students May Face Charges for Racially Motivated Felony
The Ann Arbor Police Department has issued warrants for two University students for allegedly yelling obscenities and urinating on two students in a racially motivated act.
[Posted 9/21/05]

Nguyen Following the Path of Select Group
Madison Nguyen may be the first Vietnamese-American to break open the gates of San Jose City Hall when she takes her seat on the city council on Tuesday.
[Posted 9/18/05]

Vietnamese Lose All, This Time to Katrina
After years spent working and sacrificing to build a home and community in the USA, many Vietnamese-Americans have become refugees again.
[Posted 9/18/05]

Like Being A Refugee Again
Bay Area Vietnamese Americans aid the homeless from hurricane.
[Posted 9/17/05]

Democrat Elected to California's 53rd Assembly District
Democrat Ted W. Lieu handily defeated three Republican opponents to win election to California's 53rd Assembly district in a special election called after the June death of incumbent Mike Gordon.
[Posted 9/14/05]

Madison Nguyen Cruises to Victory in District 7 Election
Madison Nguyen steamrolled to victory Tuesday in the District 7 election, ending a bruising and historic campaign with her opponent Linda Nguyen to become the first Vietnamese-American to win a seat on the San Jose City Council. (Photos)
[Posted 9/13/05]

Warning of a Silent Killer
Campaign aims to alert Asian-Americans to hepatitis danger.
[Posted 9/13/05]

Vietnamese and Latino Communities Could Be More at Risk
Some Vietnamese at risk without translations.
[Posted 9/12/05]

Bayou's Asian-Americans Try to Recover: We'll Get By
Shaded by a lotus leaf, the statue of the Buddhist character Bodhisattva Quan Am rose 20 feet high at the edge of the temple Chua Chanh Giac in Bayou La Batre, looking out at the hurricane-rav aged surroundings with a serene gaze.
[Posted 9/12/05]

Female Immigrants Make Up One of Fastest-Growing Groups of Entrepreneurs
Suzi Lee moved to the United States from South Korea in 1977 with her family. To make a living, she waited tables at Chinese restaurants.
[Posted 9/11/05]

S.J. Businessman Returns to Help Vietnamese-Americans in Biloxi
When Henry Huong Le took his first stunned look at the leveled neighborhood that had been the heart of the Vietnamese community here, one thought came to his mind: It was worse than Vietnam after the war.
[Posted 9/10/05]

Vietnamese-Americans Empathize with Gulf Victims
Only days ago, Tuyet Pham stared helplessly out the window as she and her family drove to Fremont after fleeing New Orleans. (Video)
[Posted 9/10/05]

Katrina Makes Twice Refugees
Just as millions of Gulf Coast residents affected by Hurricane Katrina, one of the most devastating and costliest natural disasters in U.S. history, several thousand Southeast Asian communities evacuated prior to the hurricane not knowing they would lose everything.
[Posted 9/9/05]

Refugee Aid Groups Poised to Help Evacuees Start Over
National non-profit agencies that help refugees resettle in the United States, from the Hmongs in Thailand to the Bantus in Africa, have offered their expertise in the domestic resettlement of residents displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
[Posted 9/7/05]

A Family Business Beached
Ngo Van Nguyen fled the communists of North Vietnam as a child. In the 1970s, he braved his way to the United States as a refugee, bringing along his wife and two young children.
[Posted 9/6/05]

Katrina Uproots Immigrants from Homes
Thousands of Vietnamese settled in the familiar climate of the Gulf Coast region after the upheaval of two wars in their homeland. Hurricane Katrina uprooted them again - the third mass evacuation in a collective memory of loss.
[Posted 9/5/05]

Katrina Clouds Vietnamese Shrimpers' American Dream
In 1979, Jane Ngo and her family escaped from Vietnam on a fishing boat with nothing but the clothes on their backs.
[Posted 9/5/05]

E-mail Campaign Leads to Church Rescue
A resourceful civil engineer living in Arlington, Texas, helped authorities rescue 300 fellow Vietnamese Americans at a church on the eastern edge of New Orleans. Trang Nguyen used an e-mail blitz to raise help in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere.

[Posted 9/3/05]

Vietnamese in O.C. Fear for Gulf Coast Relatives
Residents of Little Saigon and elsewhere, many recalling their own plight as displaced people, are desperate for news and eager to help.
[Posted 9/3/05]

Dozens of Vietnamese Americans Stranded Outside of New Orleans
According to Saigon Television Broadcasting Network there are dozens of Vietnamese Americans who are still stuck behind in a small town outside of New Orleans called Versailles. (Latest update)
[Posted 9/1/05]

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