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Vietnamese singer Do Nguyen Mai Khoi sings at a performance in Hanoi, Vietnam, May 21, 2016.

Vietnam’s own ‘Lady Gaga’ is a controversial singer who is barred from performing at home

Vietnamese pop star Mai Khoi sings about censorship and human rights. It’s gotten her in trouble with the authorities in Vietnam.

An African American man sits on a stair step with a towel around his neck

For black GIs in Saigon, ‘Soul Alley’ was an oasis of food and vice

Arts, Culture & Media
Morley Safer, correspondent for CBS News, reporting on the systematic burning of South Vietnamese villages by US Marines in Cam Ne, Vietnam, 1965.

Morley Safer’s coverage of the Vietnam War changed everything

Conflict
Poet and essayist Ocean Vuong was born in Saigon and raised in Hartford, Connecticut.

Read this brilliant new poet’s take on the US immigrant experience

Books
"In Terror in Little Saigon," Frontline and ProPublica investigate the unsolved murders of a series of Vietnamese-American journalists across the US, including Nguyen Dam Phong of Houston.

‘Terror in Little Saigon’ — an old war comes to a new country

Conflict
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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.

A journalist remembers the ‘quite eerie’ calm after the fall of Saigon

Conflict

As Americans and many South Vietnamese rushed to leave Saigon in April 1975, journalist Nayan Chanda stayed to see what would happen after the Communist takeover.

The World

Remembering a father’s amazing act to rescue his family from Vietnam’s collapse

Conflict

Miki Nguyen was 6 when his dad, a pilot in the South Vietnamese military, landed a Chinook helicopter in downtown Saigon and told his family to hop on. He then ferried them out to USS Kirk, a US Navy frigate that was operating offshore.

Volunteers with Asian Americans Advancing Justice, an Los Angeles-based non-profit, work the phones to get Asian-American voters to the polls in California. The phone bank is part of the "Your Vote Matters" campaign, an effort to get 30,000 infrequent vot

Getting Asian immigrants in the US to vote means breaking the language barrier

Global Politics

Asian Americans typically turn out in low numbers for elections. But some state-based organizations are looking to change that by making Asian Americans and other immigrant voters better acquainted with the election process.

General Vo Nguyen Giap speaking during an interview in Hanoi, in 2004, on the 50th anniversary of his stunning and decisive defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu.

Vo Nguyen Giap, America’s nemesis in Vietnam, dies at 102

Conflict & Justice

Some say the general who defeated France and America in Vietnam was brilliant. Others say he was a butcher. His story is fascinating.

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