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NEW FACE OF SCOTUS? — Potential court nominee Jacqueline Nguyen inspired by her family

March 11, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Jacqueline Nguyen knows adversity.

She, her siblings, and their parents fled Vietnam, and the 10-year-old Nguyen spent her first days in the United States in 1975 in a refugee tent city at Camp Pendleton in California.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2012, 2015, 2016, Arizona Supreme Court, Arthur Hellman, Asian American, Associated Press, Camp Pendleton, Circuit Court, Jacqueline Nguyen, Judge Carlos Bea, Justice Antonin Scalia, Los Angeles, President Barack Obama, United States, Vietnam, Vol 35 No 11 | March 12 - March 18

Former refugee thanks governor who welcomed him in 1975

December 26, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Melissa Santos The News Tribune TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Vuong Nguyen has spent the past 40 years feeling indebted to former Washington Gov. Dan Evans. This year, the former Vietnamese refugee finally found a way to express his thanks: by giving the former Republican governor a bonsai tree landscape. Nguyen was one of the […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, 2016, California Gov, Camp Pendleton, China, Dan Evans, Jay Inslee, Jerry Brown, Native Americans, Pacific Bonsai Museum, TACOMA, Vietnamese, Vol 34 No 53 | December 26 - January 1, Vuong Nguyen, Washington Gov

Last day ditch — Father and pilot remembered and honored for heroics during fall of Saigon

February 27, 2014 By Stacy Nguyen

By Stacy Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly In 2009, retired U.S. Navy Commander Paul Jacobs and Navy historian Jan Herman went on <!–more–>a Vietnamese television show in Virginia. They explained that they were seeking out a South Vietnamese Air Force (VNAF) pilot who ditched a CH-47 Chinook and survived, after transporting and unloading his family, passengers, […]

Filed Under: Features, Community News Tagged With: 2014, Ba Van Nguyen, Camp Pendleton, Chinook Ba Nguyen, First Indochina War, Hugh Doyle, Jan Herman, Kent Chipman, Miki Nguyen, NPR, Operation Frequent Wind, Rory Kennedy, Saigon River, Second Indochina War, South Vietnamese Air Force, Viet Minh, Vol 33 No 10 | March 1 - March 7, Wild West

Marine trainer gets Asian makeover

November 17, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Staff The Associated Press HONOLULU, Hawaii (AP) — The $42 million high-tech immersion trainer at Marine Corps Training Area Bellows is getting a makeover to go along with a new mission.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2011, 2012, Afghanistan, Camp Lejeune, Camp Pendleton, Chinese, Dan Geltmacher, HONOLULU, Korean, Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Marine Corps Training Area Bellows, Marine Expeditionary Forces, Marine Regiment, Scott Whittington, Vol 31 No 47 | November 17 - November 23

“Beautiful Country” actor an unlikely star

July 1, 2005 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Tiffany Wan For the Northwest Asian Weekly People rely on certainties in life, especially when thrust into unfamiliar territory. Actor Damien Nguyen, the freshly minted star of the new film “The Beautiful Country,” is firmly aware of that fact. His family left Vietnam in 1975 on a boat that carried him, six siblings, his […]

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, At the Movies Tagged With: Actor Damien Nguyen, Asian Americans Ruthann Kurose, Bai Ling, Binh Nguyen, Camp Pendleton, Dolores Sibonga, Hans Petter Moland, Howard Dean, July 2005, Nick Nolte, Northwest Asian Weekly, Tim Roth, United States, Vietnam War, Vietnamese, language

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