2008

September 4, 2008
"In the Institute for Southern Studies' recent report Faith in the Gulf and in our past reports, such as One Year After Katrina, we’ve talked with Vietnamese leaders in New Orleans East and have documented the remarkable stories of the 9,000-strong Vietnamese-American community of Versailles in their efforts to rebuild post-Katrina and to find a political voice. ", from Cinema Fridays: A Village Called Versailles by Facing South, NC

August 29, 2008
"New Orleans’s Vietnamese-American neighborhoods, also heavily flooded, are pretty much rebuilt; Father Nguyen The Vien, a Catholic priest and the de facto leader of the Vietnamese-American community, is through with acute recovery and concentrating on overseeing, through a community group, a new charter school that aims to teach both English and Vietnamese to nearly 300 students, divided about evenly between black and Vietnamese-American kids.", from Katrina, Three Years Later by City Journal, NY
"San Francisco State University faculty and students aid the recovery of Vietnamese Americans in Biloxi and New Orleans", from Displaced Once More by AsianWeek, CA

August 15, 2008
"He said that during a 2006 tour of Hurricane Katrina damage in Bayou La Batre, the city's building inspector Tommy Reynoso made a remark that Vietnamese people are used to living in damaged houses and that the Alabama Gulf Coast will be redeveloped for the wealthy. ", from Complaint filed against Bayou La Batre employee by al.com, AL

August 14, 2008
""We were actually putting the ceiling panels up when Katrina hit," Cyndi Nguyen, executive director of Vietnamese Initiatives in Economic Training, or VIET, said last week.", from END OF SUMMER BASH by The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com, LA

August 11, 2008
"A city council work session in Bayou La Batre turned noisy Monday night amid allegations that a city employee made racist statements against Vietnamese.", from Bayou Protest Over Alleged Racist Statement by WKRG-TV, AL

July 26, 2008
"An ice house project in Yscloskey, a shipyard in Empire, and a fisheries plan by Vietnamese-Americans in eastern New Orleans are among the programs eligible for at least $250,000 each in proposed hurricane reconstruction funds, according to the Louisiana Recovery Authority.", from LRA seeks public comments on repair proposal by The 2TheAdvocate, LA

June 09, 2008
Plans taking root for Vietnamese farm

April 12, 2008
"Free food and Vietnamese and Spanish translation will be available at Tuesday's meeting.", from East Biloxi planning its future by SunHerald.com, MS

March 21, 2008
"The film, however, balances destruction against re-birth, in the tale of the Biloxi Vietnamese Buddhist community's new temple.", from Burn on the Bayou' showcases Burning Man participants' post-Katrina relief efforts by CNET News.com, CA

February 20, 2008
"Le's job for the charity SOS Boat People is to find help for those whose homes were destroyed.", from A new catastrophe for the boat people by International Herald Tribune

February 09, 2008
"Lanh Trinh, center, thanks volunteers for the Vietnamese translation Bibles she and her husband received during the dedication ceremony for their new home in Pass Christian.", from House becomes home by SunHerald.com

January 16, 2008
"Montoya describes an extraordinary collaboration between immigrant Latino communities and the Vietnamese community.", from Ethnic Media Presses on in Katrina Aftermath by New California Media, CA

January 11, 2008
Study Examines How Hurricane Katrina Affected Vietnamese Living In New Orleans

January 11, 2008
"Coverage, Access and Quality | Study Examines How Hurricane Katrina Affected Health of Vietnamese Living in New Orleans", from Kaiser Health Disparities Report: A Weekly Look At Race, Ethnicity And Health by Kaiser network.org, DC

2007

December 20, 2007
For Vietnamese, government trailers notice is lost in translation

November 16, 2007
21 Vietnamese Owned Businesses Honored In Biloxi

November 15, 2007
Viet businesses to be honored

October 30, 2007
Vietnamese Rebound in New Orleans

October 01, 2007
Vietnamese community relies on each other
Vietnamese health care options low

September 22, 2007
"But here along the Coast, as Vietnamese families struggle to reclaim houses and boats lost to Katrina, the gathering takes on a new meaning.", from Fest a gathering of Asian community by Biloxi Sun Herald, USA

September 21, 2007
"The fest is sponsored by Boat People SOS, a non-profit organization whose mission is to assist and empower the local Vietnamese community, as well as assisting Asian and non-Asians, pretty much anyone impacted by Hurricane Katrina.", from Communities find paths to recovery by Biloxi Sun Herald, USA

September 1, 2006
Katrina cost Vietnamese fishermen their livelihood

August 28, 2006
Vietnamese neighborhood falls back on survival skills

August 25, 2006
NAVASA's update report for Biloxi

February 09, 2006
Katrina's Vietnamese Victims

January 24, 2006

For previous headline news & help resources of Vietnamese Americans for Hurrican Katrina Disaster Relief in vietsphere.com

January 23, 2006

January 22, 2006

January 5, 2006

January 4, 2006