The Mekong is the world’s twelfth-longest river and a major trade artery between China and Southeast Asia. Its name derives from the Lao and Thai words for “mother of waters,” and for good reason: on ...

Like most kids, Thanh Tân wasn’t always into her parents’ generation’s music. Music was a constant in the second-generation Vietnamese American’s home, particularly “Paris by Night” — a ...

The commercialization of Vietnamese music over the past few decades has positioned it today as one of the country's leading industries. However, despite its substantial growth, Vietnamese music ...

For Tân and other Vietnamese immigrant families who primarily fled from South Vietnam to the United States after the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975 — marking the end of the Vietnam War — Vietnamese ...