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Although same-sex marriage isn’t legal, Vietnam is at the forefront of gay rights in the region and gay weddings are not uncommon.

Photographer Catherine Karnow captures a changing Vietnam

Culture

To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, the Art Vietnam Gallery in Hanoi is showing “Vietnam: 25 Years of Documenting a Changing Country,” a photo exhibition of National Geographic photographer Catherine Karnow’s lifelong work in that country. In his introduction to the exhibition, Andrew Lam writes that the photographs capture a country that has many versions of itself.

Meet Khmerican CEO and founder Derek Phan.

How ‘Khmerican’ connects Cambodian Americans

Culture
An advertisement for "It's OK, That's Love," a Korean TV show that aired this summer and became one of the country's few public forums discussing mental health.

A TV drama shatters taboos around mental health in South Korea

Culture

Somali refugees build a future as farmers — in Maine

Want to find some rising stars of immigrant communities? Head to Georgia and ask a woman

Conflict & Justice

First he joined a gang, then he was deported, now he’s saving lives

Development & Education

Tuy Sobil came to the US as an undocumented immigrant and made a poor decision. At the age of 13, he joined a gang. Five years later, he committed an armed robbery and went to jail and ultimately was deported. But that moment turned his life around — and now he’s using breakdance, a passion, to help kids in Cambodia.

Latina moms pull together so they can get their college degrees

Development & Education

Unemployment among Hispanics outstrips that of non-Hispanic whites, by a good margin. An increasing number of Hispanic moms are trying to remove themselves from that group by getting their college education, but they’re finding colleges and universities aren’t quite ready for moms.

California writing Filipino Americans into the history books

Global Politics

Filipino Americans played an important and early role in reforming the farm movement — a role that hasn’t been widely acknowledged. A new law in California aims to put them in the history books.

US government shutdown has out-sized impact on African American workers

Global Politics

When the government shutdown on Tuesday, a whole bunch of federal employees were told to stay home. Many, a disproportionate number in fact, were African Americans.

Ending the secret lives of being both gay and undocumented

Conflict & Justice

Undocumented immigrants who are gay or lesbian face coming out of the closet twice: both as gay or lesbian, and as an undocumented immigrant. For one man in California, the Supreme Court’s dismissal of DOMA let him come out for the second time.