When I was eight, my family left our village,Don Duong, and came to the US. One day, I was taking the school bus home, got off at the wrong stop, and ended up wandering around downtown Philadelphia. I was scared, lost and confused. Unable to speak any English, I wandered.....

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SEATTLE (NAM).-The forum designed to solicit public comment on redistricting with the highest attendance across Washington was one that was never meant to be. This forum also drew the most ethnically diverse set of attendees, many of whom came to share their views on the.....

Caption for (Henry Vu.jpg): Stephanie Kim, Moses Yim, Henry Vu

Vietnamese American actor Henry Vu will be starring in “Yellow Face,” which will be performed at Richard Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave, Seattle, WA, Aug 5 – Sept. 3.

1. When were you born and where?
February 21st, 1989 in.....

The Vietnamese Friendship Association helps new Vietnamese immigrants adjust to life in the US. The Community Action Research and Empowerment Project’s Community Assessment Report shows that 67% of Vietnamese surveyed are very concerned about finding work. The E-verify process would impact all immigrants trying to find work along with all.....

by Julianne Hing
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Reprinted from Colorlines

Last month, Congressman Lamar Smith (R-TX) introduced the Legal Workforce Act, which would require employers to verify their employees’ legal immigration status using the online program E-Verify. While proponents of the program believe the resulting loss.....

OLYMPIA – Gov. Chris Gregoire today announced the following appointments
to the Commission on Asian Pacific American Affairs.

Lisa Dickinson, Pearl Leung, Frieda Takamura, and Quang Nguyen.

Quang Nguyen resides in Seattle, Washington. He is an Economic Development Specialist for the Seattle Chinatown/International District Preservation Development Authority. With over.....

* NGUYỄN VĂN PHÚ
(translated by Minh Chau)

Editor’s Note: Vietnamese Americans who lived through the Vietnam War have many stories to share with the generation of Vietnamese who grew up in America. With our busy lives and because of language barriers, sometimes these stories are not shared, not.....

On July 20th, the Washington Community Alliance for Self-Help (C.A.S.H.) will be offering a business education and training class for the Vietnamese community in Seattle. The class is an introduction to some of the most important concepts in starting and running a small business, with a focus on what it.....

June 19, 2011: Over 500 Vietnamese Americans gathered to commemorate South Vietnamese Army Day. Afterward, 300 of them marched in an hour-long protest around Seattle’s Little Saigon district.

They called for China to give up claims over the Spratley and Paracel Islands in the East Pacific Sea, Bien-Dong (“South.....

LTS.- Cô Mary Nguyễn được giải Tatsuo Nakata của Tiếng Nói Cộng đồng của tuần báo International Examiner, tổ chức vào ngày 18 tháng 5 tại nhà hàng Tea Palace. Giải này dành cho những thanh niên có nhiều đóng góp cho “công lý và sự công bằng”. Cô Mary.....

Tam is a lovely and talented Vietnamese-American manicurist, but she has never been able to fully connect with the men she dates. After taking a new position at the V.I.P. Nails salon, she does well at her job but doesn’t seem to fit in with the other girls, who gossip.....

When asked about the importance of the “gold boom” in California, one would most likely omit the effect it had on ethnic minorities- especially the Vietnamese living in the United States. However, in Andrew Lam’s most recent book- East Eats West (2010) the Bay area of San Francisco and it’s.....

The Vietnamese Community of Tacoma organized an event to commemorate the 36th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon at Lincoln High School, attracting hundreds of Vietnamese and non-Vietnamese.

When I landed in Honolulu, Hawai’i to attend the Asian Adult Adoptee Gathering & Film Festival in October 2008, my first thought was that I wanted to see the beach. I like to think that when I was born a tropical hormone was injected into my blood stream, making me.....

Update: This story was recently picked up in the Seattle Times Food & Wine section.

The Seattle Pho-Natics is a group of random friends and strangers from facebook who visit a different Pho place every month, in order to sample all the local flavors. Fitting.....

By Dr. Julie Pham

Recent information from the Seattle Times’ analysis of 2010 Census data indicates that the number of minorities has quickly risen on the Eastside over the past decade. Since 2000, in Bellevue alone, the minority population climbed 62 percent, and the non-whites now make up 41 percent.....

Singer Y Phuong, entertaining the audience of more than 30,000 in Bankstown, Sydney.

One of the main attractions @ the Australia festival Tet New year of the Cat is the live entertainment show! I thought it was cancelled this year because we couldn’t find the stage. However, through.....

Former Seattle Times Reporter Carey Quan Gelernter wrote in an email to Northwest Vietnamese News: “A small Vietnamese newspaper that has survived 25 years, 2000 issues” that is indeed an amazing accomplishment. In 1989, I had the pleasure of meeting your parents and writing about their efforts to serve and.....

Within Seattle’s ethnically diverse population, 12,109 people identify as Vietnamese, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s ACS Demographic and Housing Estimates for 2005-2009. This stacks up to slightly more than 2 percent of the city’s current population of just over 600,000. Nationally, according to the same estimates, the.....

Growing up, I never felt that I was really connected to the Vietnamese community in Seattle because whether it was in school or in extracurricular activities that I participated in, I was always one of the only Vietnamese students around. It wasn’t until my book launch at the University of.....

In his new book East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres from Heyday Books, New America Media editor Andrew Lam recalls teenage memories of how his father, once a South Vietnamese general, drove his family all over Belgium to find Waterloo, where his hero, Napoleon, faced defeat. This excerpt is.....

Welcome to the 2000th issue of Người Việt Tây Bắc.

Over the past 25 years, we have never missed a single issue. Our hard-working staff has persisted through snow storms, holidays, and major computer failure. And one generation later, we are still here. It is because of.....

I’ve known Người Việt Tây Bắc for much longer than I have been in news. I grew up watching my parents bother restaurant employees, asking them for a copy of the newspaper. They’d share pages and would read it during lunch. If they could, they’d leave with the paper.

In one of Thu Nguyen’s paintings, a woman is standing alone by a window. In
another, that same woman is browsing real-estate ads; in another, she is playing
with her baby; in yet another, the woman is wrapped up in sheets, dreaming.

Nguyen, a Mukilteo artist, has but.....

Mr. Hai Phan is confident his 78-year old father, Luan Van, is in good hands – getting the attention he needs for a serious heart condition. Mr. Phan lives in Boston; his father lives in Vietnam, where he owns a rubber company called Bin Phuoc Rubber. “The hospital Bumrungrad has.....

At one of the luncheons held twice a week for the Vietnamese Senior Association in Seattle, 75-year-old Marie Thu Le came up to me and said, “I heard you’re writing about end of life. I want to share my opinion on that. When my time comes, I don’t want to.....

There isn’t anything particularly unique about South King Street in the International District. Empty lots, restaurants and various other businesses line the street that serves as the heart of Chinatown in Seattle.

But two years ago, after nearly a decade of planning and work, part of Chinatown got a makeover.....

Seattle University’s Vietnamese Student Association gets involved in the Tet in Seattle Community Holiday Food Drive 2010 by donating cases of Mi Goi as well as money. Part of VSA-SU’s mission statement is to encourage the benefits of cultural diversity and also the culture of Vietnam. This is done in.....

On Dec. 2, the Business and Economic Development Center at the University of Washington-Foster School of Business held its annual Minority Business Awards at the Westin Hotel in Seattle. More than 500 people attended. Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase were the premier sponsors and the goal was to raise.....

Three Novembers ago, I kneeled before the Chancellor of Cambridge University for my PhD in history. This November, I walked across a stage at the Bellevue Hilton for another certificate – from the Executive Development Institute (EDI), which helps develop culturally diverse leaders in the corporate world.

In the fall.....

Table tennis is a strong sport in Vietnam and China, and many immigrants have brought their love of the game with them to America.

Chris Pham, a coach at the newly established Seattle Pacific Table Tennis Club, is Vietnamese and from Cambodia. Pham said he started playing ping-pong at an.....

In 1993, many Southeast Asians resided in apartment buildings along Rainier Avenue, a street which has been home to many poor immigrants and refugees. Thanks to places like Rainer Valley food Bank, many families were saved by dinners with quality foods donated from the valley Safeway. On Rainier Avenue, the.....

Bình Nguyễn is a young American born Vietnamese with a quest to design cool clothes while helping raise money for cancer care at Children’s Hospital. His small company, “Questkids”, will hold its first fashion show this Saturday night in downtown Seattle.

Family support and influence

Perhaps Bình’s quest began.....

SEATTLE—If every vote counts, why are political candidates doing so little to reach out to Washington state’s significant minority communities?

Many ethnic media outlets in the state are asking this very question. While mainstream media is on the decline, ethnic media is growing to meet the needs of new Americans......

Bình Nguyễn is a young American born Vietnamese with a quest to design cool clothes while helping raise money for cancer care at Children’s Hospital. His small company, “Questkids”, will hold its first fashion show this Saturday night in downtown Seattle.

Family support and influence

Perhaps Bình’s quest began.....

LTS: Bộ phim “Để Mai Tính” (Fool For Love) được quảng bá là bộ phim nổi nhất được tại Việt Nam trong năm. Theo đạo diễn của bộ phim Charlie Nguyễn, chi phí làm phim khoảng $400,000 đã thu lại được trong mấy tháng tại Việt Nam. Đây là một.....

SEATTLE (NVTB)- Thao Tran has been spending a significant amount of his personal time this summer in Louisiana. This is no vacation for him as he is working closely with the Vietnamese fishermen in the region who have seen their livelihoods devastated by the BP oil spill.

While a.....

With just eighty attendees, the Vietnam Scholarship Foundation raised over $31,000 to fund scholarships for students in Vietnam at its Sixth Annual Benefit Event at New Holly Gathering Hall on August 20.

When VNSF started in 2001, it funded 10 students to go to school. Now, VNSF provides scholarships.....

Donald King, president and CEO of DKA Architecture, started planning his first city when he was 12. He envisioned his metropolis along a massive river on the edge of the Pacific and named it Kingston. For four years he labored, developing the city and designing the buildings that sprung from.....

As the first Renton International Festival nears, community leaders are excited about its potential for creating a closer bond among cultural groups.

“[Renton] is a big melting pot and it’s too big to have a bunch of isolated pockets,” said Bill Taylor, president of the Renton Chamber of Commerce. “So.....

The Vietnamese community’s Seafair float for this year will feature Lac Viet, a native bird, to symbolize Vietnamese migration to the U.S. It will also pay homage to the emperor who united Vietnam.

Emperor Dinh Bo Linh, who is credited with being the first emperor in Vietnamese history to.....

After a record setting performance in the Relay for Life fund raising campaign, Tết in Seattle once again produced another proud moment for the Vietnamese American community in greater Seattle area. For the past month, Tết in Seattle group participated in the Chase Community Giving campaign. It’s a nationwide event.....

“I don’t know of a single major American opera that has set Vietnamese to music,” says Daron Aric Hagen, composer of new opera “Amelia.” His observation was echoed by the “Amelia” singers and audience as well.

“Amelia” addresses the consequences of the Vietnam War. It had its world premiere with.....

Cuong Vu wants to start a revolution.

Through his roles as a University of Washington professor and a professional musician, the Vietnamese trumpeter is on a mission to conduct a thriving jazz scene right here in the Pacific Northwest.

“The jazz scene here, for the most part, is pretty.....

In celebration of V-Day Seattle 2010, which is this Saturday, April 17th, Eve Ensler’s famous Vagina Monologues will be performing right here in Seattle at the Filipino Community Center. Vagina Monologues have been performed all over the country to help stop violence against women and girls. All proceeds from this.....