For over a month, a 43-year-old Vietnamese man has been sitting in a Louisiana detention center waiting to see whether he will be deported to a country he fled as a boy. Huy Quoc Phan, who has an ...

This Stars and Stripes image from 1968 shows refugees fleeing burning buildings near Tan Son Nhut air base in South Vietnam.

Sen. Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy (D-Mass.) talks with refugees at Thuong Duc during his fact-finding mission to South Vietnam.

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- There's a common thread among many children of Vietnamese refugees. It's the desire to succeed, knowing how much their parents have struggled and sacrificed to get to the ...

Hanoi/Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam – Although a child of war refugees, Victoria Ngo got to learn more about her Vietnamese identity only during her college years in the United States in the 1990s. The ...

DRINK PLENTY OF WATER AND TRY TO KEEP TO SHADED AREA IF POSSIBLE ESPECIALLY THOSE WITH CHRONIC MEDICAL CONDITIONS A HISTORIC ANNIVERSARY IS BEING HONORED TODAY IN FORT SMITH. FIFTY YEARS AFTER ...

Fifty years ago, the North Vietnamese military toppled the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon, effectively ending the Vietnam War and sparking a mass exodus of hundreds of thousands of refugees to the ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - April 30 marks 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War, when communist-run North Vietnam seized Saigon, then the capital of the U.S.-backed South Vietnam. It sparked a ...

In 1975, Le Nhan Phuong left Vietnam, one of about 2,000 child refugees spirited to America by international aid groups. Today, he has returned to his homeland, but now it is he who is helping others.

Subscribe to LA Public Press to get stories like this in your inbox every week. Fifty years after the Vietnam War, these ...