Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam)

The Vietnam syndrome

2013-05-05 00:00:00

Thirty-eight years ago last week, I was among the last CIA officers to be choppered off the U.S. Embassy roof in Saigon as the North Vietnamese took the country. Just two years before that chaotic rush for the exits, the Nixon administration had withdrawn...

Young Vietnamese Americans learning the lessons of Black April

2013-04-29 20:44:00

One girl gasps as the grainy black-and-white footage rolls: Women are screaming, thrusting their babies at soldiers boarding a helicopter. In the next scene, hundreds of refugees packed in the belly of a rickety boat rock in the ocean, desperately...

George McArthur dies at 88; L.A. Times Saigon bureau chief during Vietnam War

2013-04-13 19:20:00

George McArthur, who covered the Vietnam War for the Los Angeles Times as Saigon bureau chief after spending two decades as a foreign correspondent for the Associated Press, died Friday. He was 88. McArthur died at a hospice in Fairfax County, Va., of...

Prop 8: In Little Saigon, activists push for recognition

2013-03-26 11:24:00

Members of a Vietnamese LGBT group closely followed the U.S. Supreme Court hearing Tuesday, anxious about the eventual outcome and hopeful that it will help change deeply rooted feelings about gay rights in the immigrant community. “I'm excited...

Pham Duy dies at 91; Vietnam's most prolific songwriter

2013-01-28 00:00:00

Pham Duy, Vietnam's most prolific songwriter, who captured the strength of his people through years of turbulence and composed dozens of tunes after settling in California, died Sunday in Ho Chi Minh City. He was 91. His death was confirmed by his...

After Tet parade snub, LGBT groups ask for city intervention

2013-02-14 16:53:19

LGBT community sidelined from Tet parade but undeterred

2013-02-10 19:43:32

LGBT group says it's been ousted from Tet parade

2013-02-04 17:43:30

Democracy activist arrives home after release by Vietnam

2013-01-30 23:03:50

'Irvine 11' Muslim students appeal conviction in free speech case

2013-01-25 05:02:49

Slick roads lead to 6 crashes on Highway 101

2013-01-25 05:53:21

Tet parade in Little Saigon saved by fundraising push

2013-01-24 19:12:31

U.S. military and civilian personnel rush to board a Marine helicopter during the evacuation of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon on April 29, 1975.

2013-05-03 18:48:01

Some see parallels between the rushed evacuation of Saigon in 1975 and the exits from Iraq and Afghanistan today.

2013-05-03 17:15:23

A performance at the Saigon Opera House, shown here in the background,is part of a stay at the Caravelle Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

2013-01-10 17:11:58