Last year, the cities of Garden Grove, Fountain Valley and Santa Ana entered an agreement to create a Little Saigon business improvement district and tapped into $550,000 in state grant funding to ...

As the Little Saigon community gathers to celebrate Tết, the Lunar New Year, we know a little bit more about its residents than before in its nearly 50 years. Many of this year’s celebrations – ...

Tony Lam, former Westminster City Council member and the first Vietnamese American to win political office in the U.S., continues to be an influencer in his community. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles ...

If you are visiting or passing through Little Saigon, it is impossible not to feel concern or distress over what is visible on the blocks around 12th Avenue and Jackson Street, the heart of our ...

In 1984, volunteers stood outside supermarkets in Orange County, clipboards in hand, helping fellow Vietnamese Americans register to vote. Van Tran, then a freshman at UC Irvine, was one of them. The ...

On a one-mile stretch of Federal Boulevard in West Denver, it might seem like something is missing. Aside from a Taco Bell on one end, there’s a notable absence of corporate chains along the stretch ...

While Edwin is right to laud the Filipino turo-turo tradition as the pinnacle of buffet experiences, the Vietnamese are not far behind. Most of Little Saigon's smaller restaurants have a couple of ...

Five months ago, a coalition of Little Saigon community members launched a petition: “Dedicate Resources to Restore and Revitalize Little Saigon.” It wasn’t just a plea—it was a plan. We called for ...

Hung Vu, 73, a former South Vietnamese army officer who left the country in 1975, poses with a photo of himself taken during the Vietnam War at his army surplus store in the Little Saigon neighborhood ...