Nearly 25 years ago, Roberto Torres moved from the Mexican state of Guerrero to Orange County, landing a job as a dishwasher at a Vietnamese restaurant. Torres was part of a tide of immigration from ...

ST. LOUIS — Language is and will always be a way to connect people with their ancestors and culture. And these days, it's not unusual to find children with more than one ethnic background as well.

The Westminster school system in California’s Orange County has opened the state’s first English-Vietnamese dual-language-immersion program. Kindergarten students at DeMille Elementary School will be ...

Every week, nearly three dozen adults pile into a small law office on Brookhurst Avenue to shoot the breeze – in Vietnamese. The classes include business owners, a Vietnamese rapper, a Fulbright ...

Kim Vorasai, a 41-year-old Portlander who emigrated from Vietnam at age five, never learned to write or read in her native language. Back then, Vorasai said, Portland Public Schools’ educational ...

Last year, as the US and Vietnam marked 30 years of normalized relations, a new group of “citizen diplomats” arrived in ...

What would parents do in order to ensure their children receive a good education? For the parents of Phong Chan and his four brothers, it meant leaving a comfortable life and learning everything all ...

Two flags hang in Van Vu’s classroom at Murdy Elementary School in Garden Grove: one red, white and blue, the other yellow with red stripes – the flag of the former South Vietnam that’s still widely ...

A free Vietnamese language class has been launched for children from the Vietnamese community in New York and neighbouring areas, with teachers from Columbia University participating in the initiative ...