Fifty years ago, the U.S. withdrew from Saigon, Vietnam. The refugee crisis in its wake was the beginning of Fall River's Cambodian community.

On April 30, 1975, the Vietnam War ended with the fall of Saigon, leading to the establishment of “Asia on Argyle” in Chicago, where Vietnamese refugees built a new home and created a ...

Kmer and Vietnamese refugee children stand behind barbed wires in April 1976 in Thailand. Refugees camps started in 1975 ... anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War on April 30 — what people ...

Their family built the Vien Dong World Foods Supermarkets after escaping at the end of the Vietnam War and the ... spent over a year in a Malaysian refugee camp. Eventually sponsored by an ...

Thuan Nguyen, president of the Vietnamese American Heritage Community of Oklahoma, was 4 years old when he and his mother fled Vietnam by ... living in refugee camps in Malaysia and Indonesia.

It was an American cargo ship that would help rescue about 5,000 Vietnamese who’d fled their country by boat as the Vietnam War ended ... first in a refugee camp in North Florida and then ...

Dinh Nguyen escaped from Vietnam after more than six years in ... by the Malaysian navy and they were taken to a huge refugee camp on Malaysia’s Bidong Island. There, Dinh signed up to go ...

Van Truong Le at around age 5 in Vietnam in 1972 or 1973 ... They were initially placed in a Pennsylvania refugee camp, near to where their late mother's physician, an American named John ...