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  • John Tran got new job

    The ousted mayor of Rosemead is getting ready to be sworn in to another office he just won last month. John Tran (pictured), who in May lost his seat on the Rosemead City Council by 1 vote (in the same election that voted in Steven Ly, at 24 the youngest Vietnamese-American officeholder) [...]
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    Posted: December 07, 2009, 10:44am EST
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  • Pho - the price of popularity

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    You know the Vietnamese noodle soup Phở has arrived, when you see that people are starting to mess with it. What’s the Bolsavik talking about? It’s like this: You know pizza has gained popularity world wide when you can find, as the Bolsavik did in Tokyo (pictured right), pizza topped with … poached eggs. You see, [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2009, 9:22am EST
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  • Judge Nguyen unanimously confirmed to federal bench

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    The U.S. Senate by a vote of 97-0 today unanimously confirmed Judge Jacqueline Nguyen to the U.S. District Court, making her the first Vietnamese-American federal judge. Judge Nguyen’s confirmation vote came up shortly after noon today, here. She previously received also unanimous approval by the Judiciary Committee, see here. On the floor, Senator [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2009, 1:16pm EST
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  • Viet 13-y.o. composer won performance in Japan

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    A 13-year-old Vietnamese-American music student won a trip to Japan to perform his composition, reports the Arizona Republic here. Christian Nguyen (pictured), from Gilbert, Arizona, was chosen to be one of 13 performers from the world over to join the International Junior Original Concert. His composition “Dragon Keeper” was a winner chosen [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 3:35am EST
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  • Enhanced video: Phuong Ho was not resisting

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    The grainy cell phone video of the police beating a Vietnamese student, once enhanced by a forensic expert hired by the San Jose Mercury News, confirms that Phuong Ho was not resisting, just going for his glasses - reports the paper here. The video, taken by a roommate of Ho’s inside [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 10:47am EST
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  • Viet dead in drug shooting in wealthy neighborhood

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    A few days after a Vietnamese-American man was found shot dead in his home in an upscale Bay Area neighborhood, police said they think the crime may be drug related, reports KPIX CBS5 here. Linh Tu Nguyen, 33, was found dead in his home on Orion Road in San Leandro. Police responding to [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 1:46am EST
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  • Tila Tequila goes au naturel, disses ex

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    In a streaming online video, MTV star Tila Tequila strips naked, pulls out her tampon, and did other strange stunts while ranting against her ex-boyfriend Shawne Merriman the San Diego Charger linebacker. The first site that reported the video is apparently KSDK here, and it describes the video as “bizarre.” In the [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:58pm EST
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  • Annotated 9-1-1 call in Daniel Pham case

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    There were three 9-1-1 recordings plus the recording of the police dispatch communications, released by the City of San Jose in the case of the police shooting death of Daniel Pham. The recording that’s the longest, and also holds the most information among the three 9-1-1 calls, is the one placed by the girlfriend of Daniel’s brother [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 2:24am EST
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  • Daniel Pham file clears cops, but raises questions about D.A. and Chief

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    The release of the 9-1-1 emergency recordings as well as police reports in the case of the police shooting death of Daniel Pham explains a lot of the police action, but raises an important question on the Police Chief’s and District Attorney’s sense of judgment: Why put the city through months of [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 12:13pm EST
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  • ‘Nguyen’ building coming to George Mason University

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    The largest academic building on George Mason University’s Fairfax campus will carry the name “Long and Kimmy Nguyen Engineering Building,” after the businessman and his wife, who donated $5 million to the university, the Washington Business Journal reports here. Dr. Long Nguyen is the founder and CEO of Pragmatics based in [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 5:14am EST
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  • GOP takes it out on Rep. Joseph Cao

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    Voting on principle can be costly. U.S. Rep. Joseph Cao is hit with a backlash for being the lone GOP vote for the health care reform bill, even as the party’s leaders are denying they’re osctracizing him. After the vote, a GOP colleague, minority whip Eric Cantor, refused to shake Cao’s hands, according [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 8:41am EST
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  • Viet U.S. Navy Commander in Vietnam, interviewed on Nguoi Viet

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    (Photo by Chitose Suzuki, AP) When the USS Lassen made its official port call to Da Nang, Vietnam, earlier today, it marked the first time that a Vietnamese-American U.S. warship commander came back on Vietnamese shore. Cmdr. Hung Le (in Vietnamese: Lê Bá Hùng) was just 5 years old when communist forces overran [...]
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    Posted: November 08, 2009, 9:22am EST
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  • Joseph Cao voted for health care reform; it passes

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    When push comes to shove, the sole Vietnamese-American in Congress proves he can buck partisan pressure. In the final House vote on health care reform, Rep. Joseph Cao broke with his GOP colleagues and voted for the bill. And so it was that when health care reform passed the House 220-215, [...]
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    Posted: November 08, 2009, 9:21pm EST
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  • Viet priest elevated to Auxilliary Bishop of Toronto

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    A Vietnamese-Canadian priest in the Archdiocese of Toronto has been named Auxilliary Bishop of that same archdiocese by Pope Benedict XVI, announced the Vatican in its daily newsletter here. Fr. Vincent Nguyen (Vietnamese name: Nguyễn Mạnh Hiếu) was one of two priests appointed for Toronto. The Vatican newsletter announced that the Pope appointed [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 9:52am EST
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  • ‘Dust of Life’ to open today

      The hard-hitting Viet teen angst movie Dust of Life (in Vietnamese: Bụi Đời) opens tonight with a charity fundraising screening, followed by wide release in 4 cities. The first showing tonight, 7pm at the Star Performing Arts Center in Fountain Valley, will be a fundraiser for the Vietnamese American Cancer Foundation [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 7:27am EST
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  • San Jose to release 9-1-1 tapes in Daniel Pham case

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    Tapes of the 9-1-1 call and other reports in the case of the police shooting death of a Vietnamese mentally ill man will be released, after redaction to remove names of witnesses, a San Jose city committee decided yesterday. The San Jose Mercury News reports here that the committee, chaired by [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 2:00pm EST
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  • Thomas’ Apartment releases third album

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    You leave a band alone for a few years, and next thing you know, they’ve released not one, not two, but three full-length albums. That’s what happened with Thomas’ Apartment, the rock band that won the 2007 Vietnamese talent search show on SBTN in 2007 and the $10,000 prize that came [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 11:58pm EST
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  • SBTN rolled over and played chicken. Again

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    Faced with controversy, the CEO of a top Vietnamese satellite TV station cried uncle, capitulated, insulted his personnel on air, and cancelled a talk show hosted by a popular poet. This is not the first time spineless SBTN’s Cuong Nguyen (Vietnamese name: Nguyễn Tự Cường) bent over and submitted to the [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 6:41am EST
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  • Cops’ lawyers say Phuong Ho at fault

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    Attorneys representing the two police officers beating and Taser-ing the San Jose Vietnamese student claim the student was at fault for resisting arrest, says the San Jose Mercury News here. Terry Bowman, representing Kenneth Siegel, the officer who repeatedly beat Phuong Ho, told the paper that Ho “is responsible for his [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2009, 5:41pm EST
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  • Message in a bottle helps Viet refugees land in U.S.

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    As two Vietnamese brothers were floating in the Gulf of Siam in 1983 they found a bottle with a note in it. The message led to a friendship that helped the two and their families arrive in the U.S. after two years in a Thailand refugee camp. The touching story is [...]
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    Posted: October 28, 2009, 12:04pm EDT
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  • Madison Nguyen reacts to police beating

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    The sole Vietnamese-American on the city council of San Jose said in a written statement that she is “greatly disturbed” by the police beating of Vietnamese student Phuong Ho (pictured). In a separate interview with the Bolsavik, Councilmember Madison Nguyen also said she supports putting body cameras on police officers that [...]
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    Posted: October 26, 2009, 8:29pm EDT
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  • Senseless beating of Viet student: SJ police in spotlight again

    Number of comments: 10
    (Click on photo to view video) Police using a metal baton repeatedly beat a man even after he’s down, and the whole thing was captured on video by an amateur who just happened to be there. That may sound like something out of L.A. in the last century, but it’s not. It’s [...]
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    Posted: October 25, 2009, 4:25pm EDT
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  • Record goal targeted for Tet Festival 2010

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    The new leader of the organizing committee for the Tet Festival at has set a challenging goal for this coming fest: To break the $1million mark, on the cummulative amount of money the UVSA donates back to the community. Phong Ly, the new President of the Union of Vietnamese Students Associations [...]
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    Posted: October 22, 2009, 7:59pm EDT
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  • Viet gangster charged in murder of Viet witness

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    A 42-year-old Viet alleged gangster is among three people charged with murder in the death of a Vietnamese-American man who had witnessed a prior shooting, resulting in the conviction of this defendant’s brother, reports the Seattle Post-Intelligencer here. Quy D. Nguyen, 42, of Seattle is facing multiple charges in the January [...]
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    Posted: October 22, 2009, 10:26am EDT
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  • No indictment of cops who killed Viet man

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    A Santa Clara County grand jury last Thursday declined to indict any of the police officers who were involved in the shooting death of a mentally ill Vietnamese man, reports the San Jose Mercury News here. Daniel Pham, 27, was fatally shot by police last May. He had attacked his brother [...]
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    Posted: October 20, 2009, 7:09am EDT
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  • More guide to crime: Do it to a cop

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    A Vietnamese man was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving after he allegedly slammed his minivan into, yep, a police cruiser. Trang Nguyen, 52, was in jail for two days before he was released early morning on Sunday on bond, Los Angeles Sheriff Department’s records show. The crash occured about 7:30pm Friday, [...]
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    Posted: October 20, 2009, 12:49am EDT
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  • Van Tran, Quang X. Pham’s money

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    Campaign disclosures for Q3 of 2009 were due last week, and the two Republicans vying to replace U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez both show healthy numbers. Assemblyman Van Tran, known for his fundraising prowess, pulled in a modest $91,809, according to his campaign disclosure here. This apparently smaller-than-expected amount, however, may be [...]
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    Posted: October 19, 2009, 9:16am EDT
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  • OC School Board’s Long Pham accuses Sac’to church

    Number of comments: 9
    Long Kim Pham, the perennial candidate who surprised everyone by winning a seat on the Orange County Board of Education, on Thursday sent out emails claiming the priests-rectors of the Vietnamese Catholic Martyrs Church in Sacramento are communists. Not just Viet communists, but Chinese communists. Calling the church leaders “traitors in [...]
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    Posted: October 17, 2009, 10:52am EDT
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  • Judge Jacqueline Nguyen approved by Senate Committee

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    A Viet long-time Superior Court judge is only one step away from becoming the first Vietnamese-American federal judge, having been reported out of the Senate Judiciary Committee, according to its web site here. Judge Jacqueline H. Nguyen (pictured), nominated on July 31 (see here) by President Barack Obama to be a judge [...]
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    Posted: October 16, 2009, 2:19am EDT
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  • ‘Operation Babylift’ to play San Diego, festival circuit

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    The film that won the Audience Choice Award at the Vietnamese International Film Festival, a documentary about former orphans airlifted out of Vietnam at the end of the war, is coming to a film festival near you. After the success at ViFF and at several other festivals including the director’s home [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2009, 6:40pm EDT
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  • Viet takes top honors at state photo contest

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    “Egret Dancing” With this photo, My Phuong Nguyen of Burtonsville, Maryland won the Grand Prize in the 2009 Maryland Natural Resource Magazine Photo Contest. The contest was run by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. The photo, entitled “Egret Dancing,” also won her the First Place in the Wild Plants and the Birds [...]
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    Posted: October 14, 2009, 10:51am EDT
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  • Guide to crime: Do it in front of cop

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    A Viet woman was arrested for swinging a samurai sword at another woman, right in front of a police officer. In fact, while the target woman was talking to the officer, reports the Jersey Journal here. Thanh T. Huynh, 39, was arrested around 1am Sunday. Huynh was at a party at this house on [...]
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    Posted: October 13, 2009, 5:01am EDT
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  • Out with the old, in with the same old same old

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    The “Special Committee to Oppose Communists” just folded. Oh, and then they formed the ”Committee Against Communists and Lackeys.” And they’ve just announced an impressive list of things they’ll do to all you communists and lackeys out there. Who, you ask? Good question. For many, the answer is “Who cares?” For the few [...]
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    Posted: October 12, 2009, 9:24am EDT
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  • Sunday entertainment: Nail Salon Fight video

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    Here’s something hilarious, found on YouTube, and going viral among Viet netizens. Apparently this male worker at the nail salon used a cup that belonged to a female co-worker, then he didn’t wash it. So the female was nagging and ranting and things escalated. They started to scream back and forth, and [...]
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    Posted: October 11, 2009, 11:35am EDT
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  • Killer of Viet mother gets death

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    A robber who shot a Vietnamese woman in her store while her youngest child was asleep in the back has been sentenced to death by a jury in Biloxi, Mississippi, on Thursday, reports the Biloxi-Gulfport Sun Herald here. It took the jury 5 hours to impose the death penalty on Jason [...]
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    Posted: October 09, 2009, 9:41am EDT
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  • Van Tran picks his horse

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    In the Republican race to replace the termed-out Governator, Assemblyman Van Tran shows who he’s behind: State Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner. Today, Tran accompanied Poizner on a campaign stop with Asian-American businesses in Orange County. That’s Tran to the left in the picture, with Poizner. Poizner is a foreign-affairs guru who made [...]
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    Posted: October 09, 2009, 11:17pm EDT
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  • Viet woman accused of massive loan mod fraud

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    A Vietnamese woman, familiar with Little Saigon-area radio listeners for her weekly radio advertorial, has been charged with a massive loan modification scam that allegedly netted at least 26 victims, according to a press release from the D.A.’s office here. A few days after the Costa Mesa Police Department put out [...]
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    Posted: October 08, 2009, 3:47pm EDT
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  • Viet high school counselor won Yale’s “Educator Award”

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    Huy Tran (left) helping senior Derik Pham apply to colleges. Photo by Olivia Le, La Quinta H.S. Yearbook photographer, courtesy of Huy Tran. A Vietnamese-American counselor at a high-Viet-concentration high school in Bolsavikland has been honored by Yale University with its Educator Award. Huy Tran, Head Counselor at La Quinta High School in Garden [...]
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    Posted: October 08, 2009, 1:53am EDT
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  • Three Viets plead guilty to slavery of fellow Viets

    Number of comments: 5
    A Viet woman, her brother, and her boyfriend pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in Pennsylvania to various charges stemming from a modern-day slavery case involving women they brought over from Vietnam to work in their nail salon and as domestics in their home, reports the York Daily Record here. Lynda [...]
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    Posted: October 07, 2009, 3:30pm EDT
    by Bolsavik

  • Viet’s painting to exhibit at California Capitol

    Number of comments: 10
    A painting by Vietnamese-American artist Nguyen Van Bay has been selected to be part of the California Contemporary Art Collection 2009-2010 Art Exhibit at the state Capitol in Sacramento, according to a press release from the office of State Senator Lou Correa. The painting above, entitled “Light and Trust,” has been [...]
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    Posted: October 06, 2009, 7:19pm EDT
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  • Viet ex-cop in jail for bad checks, drugs, etc.

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    A Vietnamese-American former Arkansas police officer with multiple problems turned himself in Thursday on two felony arrest warrants on, of all things, bad checks, reports the Southwest Times Record here. Ly Thien Duong, 24, of Fort Smith, surrendered to authorities on two warrants for second-degree criminal mischief and theft by deception. Both [...]
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    Posted: October 05, 2009, 1:36pm EDT
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  • Images from Mid-Autumn Festival Painting Contest

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      Every year for 7 years now, the Vietnamese-American Arts & Letters Association (VAALA) has been holding a Mid-Autumn Festival Painting Contest for kids. The Mid-Autumn Festival, probably originally a harvest festival, has evolved in tradition to become the Vietnamese day for kids. Since 2003, VAALA (web site here) has been holding the [...]
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    Posted: October 05, 2009, 9:43pm EDT
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  • Second suspect arrested in death of Viet food deliverer

    Number of comments: 5
    A high-school teenager is the second suspect arrested and charged in the July killing of a Vietnamese man who was delivering take-out food, reports WFXT-TV here. Ronny Ramos (pictured), 17, a Lawrence High School senior, was arrested Friday night at about 9:20 in his home and charged with first degree murder [...]
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    Posted: October 03, 2009, 7:45pm EDT
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  • Viets in wild police shoot-out got 15 years

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    Two Vietnamese brothers who went on a shooting rampage in Tennessee 3 years ago pleaded guilty to multiple attempted murder charges. A third Viet accused in the shooting is going to trial, reports the Memphis Commercial Appeal here. Phu “Phillip” Pham, 29, and Qui “Tommy” Pham, 23, were sentenced Wednesday to 15 [...]
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    Posted: October 02, 2009, 2:15pm EDT
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  • Texas Viet man chases, catches hit-and-run driver

    Number of comments: 7
    A Vietnamese man successfully caught a hit-and-run driver in action sequence worthy of a stunt driver. Hung Pham (pictured) gave chase, cut off and took the keys from a 17-year-old female driver who had kept going after hitting a pedestrian, reports KDAF-TV33 here. The events happened around 7am this morning near Sam Houston High [...]
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    Posted: October 02, 2009, 12:39am EDT
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  • School Board VP: Other ethnicities wary of Asian/Viet students

    Number of comments: 10
    Lan Quoc Nguyen, the Vice-President of Board of the Garden Grove Unified School District, in an interview published on a Vietnamese newspaper proclaimed that other ethnicities are wary of classes with a lot of Asian students in it because they can’t compete. Nguyen, on the School Board since 2002 (pictured), was escorting Trisha [...]
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    Posted: September 30, 2009, 5:50am EDT
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  • Viet man arrested for lewd acts in front of 2-year-old

    Number of comments: 10
    A Vietnamese man from El Modena is in jail, accused of a sex act in front of a 2-year-old boy, and authorities today are asking for the public’s help in identifying more victims. Tach Van Truong (pictured), 44, was arrested on September 23, for “allegedly standing in front of his home, [...]
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    Posted: September 29, 2009, 6:44pm EDT
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  • Yale’s statement about Annie Le

    (Photo by the New Haven Register) Yale’s Graduate School and School of Medicine released this statement on 25 September, the day before Annie Le’s funeral in California: The Graduate School, the School of Medicine, and the entire Yale community are deeply saddened by the tragic death of graduate student Annie Marie Le, 24, [...]
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    Posted: September 29, 2009, 11:14am EDT
    by Bolsavik

  • Viet woman smuggles rare live fish inside fish sauce, arrested

    Number of comments: 3
    A Vietnamese woman returning from Vietnam was arrested for smuggling into the U.S. live endangered fish by hiding them inside bottles of fish sauce, reports the Charlotte Observer here. Bich Phuong Truong Phan, whose two brothers operate pet stores in Charlotte and Atlanta, was charged in federal court with violating the Endangered Species Act by attempting [...]
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    Posted: September 28, 2009, 1:35am EDT
    by Bolsavik

  • Viet exchange student messed up immigration, faces deportation

    Number of comments: 8
    A Vietnamese exchange student who married a U.S. citizen nonetheless is facing deportation because, as her husband says, she “tripped up” on the immigration process and is now in jail, reports KSTP-TV5 here. Hoa Nguyen came to the U.S. on a student visa ten years ago, attending Luther College in Iowa [...]
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    Posted: September 28, 2009, 12:09am EDT
    by Bolsavik
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