Loretta Lorna Sanchez is an American politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1997 to 2017. A Democrat,she was first elected in 1996,when she defeated long-serving Republican congressman Bob Dornan by less than 1,000 votes. Sanchez represented the 46th district from 1997 to 2003,then California's 47th congressional district from 2003 to 2013,and again in the 46th district from 2013 to 2017. The district lies in central Orange County. During her time in the House of Representatives,Sanchez was a member of the Democratic Party's moderate/conservative Blue Dog Coalition.
Vang Pao was a major general in the Royal Lao Army. He was a leader of the Hmong American community in the United States. He was also known as General Vang Pao to the people in the Hmong community.
Vietnamese Americans are Americans of Vietnamese ancestry. They make up about half of all overseas Vietnamese and are the fourth-largest Asian American ethnic group after Chinese Americans,Filipino Americans,and Indian Americans. There are about 2.2 million people of Vietnamese descent residing in the U.S.
Joseph Robert Kerrey is an American politician who served as the 35th Governor of Nebraska from 1983 to 1987 and as a United States Senator from Nebraska from 1989 to 2001. Before entering politics,he served in the Vietnam War as a United States Navy SEAL officer and was awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in combat. During the action for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor,he was severely wounded,precluding further naval service.
Little Saigon is a name given to ethnic enclaves of expatriate Vietnamese mainly in English-speaking countries. Alternate names include Little Vietnam and Little Hanoi,depending on the enclave's political history. To avoid political undertones due to the renaming of Saigon to Ho Chi Minh City,it is occasionally called by the neutral name Vietnamtown. Saigon is the former name of the capital of the former South Vietnam,where a large number of first-generation Vietnamese immigrants arriving to the United States originate,whereas Hanoi is the current capital of Vietnam.
Overseas Vietnamese refers to Vietnamese people who live outside Vietnam. There are approximately 4.5 million overseas Vietnamese,the largest community of whom live in the United States. The oldest wave of overseas Vietnamese left Vietnam as economic and political refugees after the 1975 fall of Saigon and the North Vietnamese annexation of South Vietnam.
Chapman University is a private research university in Orange,California. It encompasses ten schools and colleges,including Fowler School of Engineering,Dodge College of Film and Media Arts,Fowler School of Law,and Schmid College of Science and Technology,and is classified among "R2:Doctoral Universities –High research activity". Although it does not claim to be a Christian college,it has had a relationship with the Disciples of Christ since the university's founding and with the United Church of Christ since 2011.
Madison Nguyen is an American politician from California. She served on the San Jose,California,City Council from 2005 to 2014,representing district 7,and she additionally served as vice mayor from 2011 to 2014. She was the first Vietnamese American elected to the city council.
Coastline Community College is a public community college with three mini-campuses in Westminster,Garden Grove,and Newport Beach and an administration building in Fountain Valley,California. The college offers Associate in Arts degrees,Associate in Science degrees,courses to prepare students to transfer to a four-year college or university,and career and technical courses that can lead to career advancement and/or an occupational certificate. The college was founded in 1976 and is part of the Coast Community College District and the California Community Colleges.
Our Lady of La Vang refers to a reported Marian apparition at a time when Catholics were persecuted and killed in Vietnam. The Shrine of our Lady of La Vang is situated in what is today Hai Phu commune in Hải Lăng District of Quảng TrịProvince in Central Vietnam.
The Union of the Vietnamese Student Associations of Southern California is a 501(c)(3) non-profit,non-partisan,community-based and youth-oriented organization designed to provide a united voice for Vietnamese American youth. While based in Little Saigon,organization is a cumulative organization of Vietnamese Student Associations at various Southern California universities and colleges. Its programs include the promotion and retention of Vietnamese language and culture among the Vietnamese youth community,especially through the inter-school support of the Vietnamese Culture Shows,fostering social networking among the different VSAs and participation in the philanthropic work of the Vietnamese community.
Do Hoang Diem is the current chairman of pro-democracy Việt Tân. He is a prominent leader in the Vietnamese democracy movement.
The Vietnam Friendship Village is a residency founded in 1992 by George Mizo,an American veteran of the Vietnam War. The institution serves individuals afflicted by conditions related to Agent Orange while also opening channels of cross-cultural dialogue. Originally conceived of as a residence for children and elderly people presumed to be victims of Agent Orange,the focus of the village has broadened,and it now provides a variety of services such as alternative health treatments,food grown in an onsite garden,and vocational training.
Frederick M. Nicholas is an American lawyer specializing in real estate development and leases. He is known as "Mr. Downtown Culture" for his role in building the Museum of Contemporary Art,Los Angeles,the Geffen Contemporary,the Walt Disney Concert Hall,and for the founding of Public Counsel,the nation's largest public interest law firm. Frederick M. Nicholas has combined his legal career with a heavy real estate involvement to become an institution builder in the arts in Los Angeles.
Dominic Mai Thanh Lương was a Vietnamese-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Orange from 2003-15.
The Little Saigon district straddling the cities of Garden Grove and Westminster in Orange County,California is the largest Little Saigon in the United States. Saigon is the former name of the capital of the former South Vietnam,where a large number of first-generation Vietnamese immigrants originate.
Fulbright University Vietnam (FUV) is a private nonprofit university currently located at the Crescent Plaza in Ho Chi Minh City,Vietnam. It is one of Vietnam's first private,nonprofit institutions of higher education. The FUV concept emerged from discussions convened by the Vietnam Program at the Harvard Kennedy School aimed at planning the next stage in the development of the Fulbright Economics Teaching Program (FETP)Archived 2018-10-11 at the Wayback Machine,a center of public policy research and teaching in Ho Chi Minh City. Since 2014,the university's development has been coordinated by the Trust for University Innovation in Vietnam (TUIV),a nonprofit corporation based in the Boston area. TUIV and the Harvard Vietnam Program are recipients of several grants from the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State.
Little Saigon is a neighborhood of San Jose,California,located in East San Jose. It is a hub for Silicon Valley's Vietnamese community and one of the largest Little Saigons in the world,as San Jose has more Vietnamese residents than any city outside of Vietnam.
Asian Garden Mall,known in Vietnamese as Phước Lộc Thọ,is a shopping center in Westminster,California. Opened in 1987,Asian Garden Mall is the first and largest Vietnamese-American shopping mall and is seen as a symbol of the community. The mall is located at 9200 Bolsa Avenue,serving as the focal point of Little Saigon in Orange County and is the site of many cultural and political events in the Vietnamese-American community.
