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Monthly Archives: October 2009
OC School Board’s Long Pham accuses Sac’to church
Long Kim Pham, the perennial candidate who surprised everyone by winning a seat on the Orange County Board of Education, on Thursday sent out emails claiming the priests-rectors of the Vietnamese Catholic Martyrs Church in Sacramento are communists. Not just … Continue reading
Judge Jacqueline Nguyen approved by Senate Committee
A Viet long-time Superior Court judge is only one step away from becoming the first Vietnamese-American federal judge, having been reported out of the Senate Judiciary Committee, according to its web site here. Judge Jacqueline H. Nguyen (pictured), nominated on July … Continue reading
‘Operation Babylift’ to play San Diego, festival circuit
The film that won the Audience Choice Award at the Vietnamese International Film Festival, a documentary about former orphans airlifted out of Vietnam at the end of the war, is coming to a film festival near you. After the success … Continue reading
Viet takes top honors at state photo contest
“Egret Dancing” With this photo, My Phuong Nguyen of Burtonsville, Maryland won the Grand Prize in the 2009 Maryland Natural Resource Magazine Photo Contest. The contest was run by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. The photo, entitled “Egret Dancing,” … Continue reading
Guide to crime: Do it in front of cop
A Viet woman was arrested for swinging a samurai sword at another woman, right in front of a police officer. In fact, while the target woman was talking to the officer, reports the Jersey Journal here. Thanh T. Huynh, 39, was arrested … Continue reading
Out with the old, in with the same old same old
The “Special Committee to Oppose Communists” just folded. Oh, and then they formed the ”Committee Against Communists and Lackeys.” And they’ve just announced an impressive list of things they’ll do to all you communists and lackeys out there. Who, you ask? Good … Continue reading
Sunday entertainment: Nail Salon Fight video
Here’s something hilarious, found on YouTube, and going viral among Viet netizens. Apparently this male worker at the nail salon used a cup that belonged to a female co-worker, then he didn’t wash it. So the female was nagging and … Continue reading
Viet high school counselor won Yale’s “Educator Award”
Huy Tran (left) helping senior Derik Pham apply to colleges. Photo by Olivia Le, La Quinta H.S. Yearbook photographer, courtesy of Huy Tran. A Vietnamese-American counselor at a high-Viet-concentration high school in Bolsavikland has been honored by Yale University with its … Continue reading
