BACH Yen (or " White Swallow") was born in the Mekong Delta, in South Vietnam. She began performing variety music in Saigon while still very young, learning to sing with ease in Vietnamese, French, English, Spanish, Italian, and Hebrew. More...

Tuan Ngoc was born into a family of entertainers and performers, so it was a natural transition for him to follow the family's profession. At an early age, Tuan Ngoc excelled in the arts of entertainment and was chosen to perform in a children variety radio program in South Vietnam in the 60's.  More...

Tet-In-Seattle is proud to have Ms. Tran Mong Tu as one of its distinguished guests this year. Well-known and well-regarded as the unofficial poet laureate of Vietnamese language in the Seattle area, Ms. Tran Mong Tu will appear as one of the authors in our new series "Meet Some Vietnamese-American Authors."  More...

Almost three decades ago, my family and I left Vietnam inside a C-130 cargo plane full of weeping refugees. I remember watching a Saigon in smoke, then a green mass of land giving way to a hazy green sea. I was eleven years old — too young to realize that I was witnessing a significant historical moment. For the first time in her embattled history, a history alleged to be 4,000 years old, the end of a war had resulted in an unprecedented mass exodus. More...

During his sophomore through senior year in high school, Don Ho participated in a choral group called Chamber Singers. As a young man, Don Ho excelled in the arts. He received a scholarship to attend an art school in New York after high school, however his love for music was greater, consequently, Don decided to remain in the west coast to pursue a career as a singer. Don came from a family of entertainers. He still has relatives who are in show business in Vietnam.  More...

Aimee Phan was born and raised in Orange County, California. She received her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop where she won a Maytag Fellowship. Her first book, "We should never meet" was named a Notable Book by the Kiriyama Prize in fiction and a finalist for the 2005 Asian American Literary Awards. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, USA Today and The Oregonian. She is currently an Assistant Professor in English at Washington State University.  More...

Currently Hoi Trinh is representing some 2000 stateless Vietnamese people in the Philippines. For more information, go to wwww.google.com and type in 'Hoi Trinh and Stateless Vietnamese in the Philippines'.   More...