Aromatic rices have definite aromas and flavors ; the most noted cultivars are Thai fragrant rice, Basmati, Patna rice, Vietnamese fragrant rice, and a hybrid cultivar from America, sold under the trade name Texmati.

It was an opportune time for Diệm, with the outbreak of the Korean War and McCarthyism helping to make Vietnamese anti-communists a sought after commodity in America.

A large number of Vietnamese refugees came to the city in the 1970s, settling largely in an area now officially named Little Saigon, and the city is unofficially known as the " capital " of overseas Vietnamese with 36, 058 Vietnamese Americans and at 40. 2 % ( 2010 ), the highest concentration of Vietnamese-Americans of any city in America.

With 36, 058 Vietnamese Americans and at 40. 2 %, the city has the highest concentration of Vietnamese-Americans of any city in America.

* Mr. Hyunh – a Vietnamese immigrant who moved to America in search of his daughter who was lost in the Vietnam War.

When the North Vietnamese Army overran South Vietnam in 1975, Air America helicopters participated in Operation Frequent Wind evacuating both US civilians and South Vietnamese people associated with the regime from Saigon.

The need for air power became so desperate that Air America C-7 Caribous were used as makeshift bombers, dropping barrels of napalm on the invading Vietnamese.

In America, Lee is the most common surname for Chinese and Korean Americans and the second-most-common surname for Asian and Pacific Islanders, behind the Vietnamese Nguyen.

After 1975, when North Vietnamese troops conquered the South, Bửu Chánh, his wife Phan Lien and their children went into exile, moving to the United States of America.

The Orderly Departure Program ( ODP ) was a program to permit immigration of Vietnamese refugees to the United States of America, instituted in 1979 under the auspices of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Unlike their counterparts in North America or Australia, they have not formed distinct Vietnamese enclaves within the major cities of France ( although many Vietnamese-run shops can be found in the Chinatown neighborhood of Paris ) and the degree of assimilation is higher than in the United States, Canada or Australia due to better cultural, historical and linguistic knowledge of the host country.

Generally, overseas Vietnamese residing in North America, Western Europe, and Australia ( which represent the vast majority of overseas Vietnamese populations ) are virulently opposed to the existing government of Vietnam.

*" Letter to a Vietnamese cousin: Should you come to America?

Zinn argues that America was fighting a war that it could not win, as the Vietnamese people were in favor of the government of Ho Chi Minh and opposed the regime of Ngo Dinh Diem, thus allowing them to keep morale high.

Turki went on to criticise Zionism, which “ instead of adopting, as it should, a neutral attitude, or one of support for the Arab struggle for national and socialist liberation, it has stood beside this movement's enemies, beside the Americans who are persecuting the Vietnamese people, beside American imperialism which is exploiting the peoples of Latin America and the peoples of Asia and Africa, and setting the Jewish people against the Arab people forever.

Indeed, they were among the first of all Vietnamese immigrants into America and would, later, become among the first to settle Little Saigon, Orange County.

By late April Air America helicopters were flying several daily shuttles from TF76 to the DAO Compound to enable the 9th MAB to conduct evacuation preparations at the DAO without exceeding the Paris Peace Accords ' limit of a maximum of 50 military personnel in South Vietnam, this at a time when the North Vietnamese army was overtly breaching the Peace Accords ..

At approximately 14: 30, Air America Bell 205 serial number " N47004 " landed on the roof of the Pittman Apartment Building at 22 Gia Long Street to collect a senior Vietnamese intelligence source and his family.

On the afternoon of 29 April 1975, Hubert van Es, a Saigon-based photographer for United Press International, took the iconic photo of Operation Frequent Wind of an Air America UH-1 Huey on a rooftop picking up Vietnamese evacuees.

Image: Saigon-hubert-van-es. jpg | Evacuation of Vietnamese by Air America on 29 April 1975.

Unlike much of the left, it does not take sides in wars, e. g. not calling for a victory for the Vietnamese against America.

* Zhou, Min and Carl L. Bankston III Growing Up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1998.

* Zhou, Min and Carl L. Bankston III Growing Up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1998.

* Zhou, Min and Carl L. Bankston III Growing Up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1998. ISBN 978-0-87154-995-2.

* Zhou, Min and Carl L. Bankston, Growing Up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States ( 1998 ) New York: Russell Sage Foundation

* Zhou, Min and Carl L. Bankston III Growing Up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1998.

The Vietnamese American Foundation began a program called " The Returning Casualty " in the early 2000s.

Some of the extracurricular clubs include Montebello Ridge Club ( an environmental outdoors organization ), Gay Straight Alliance, Chinese Club, 日本語 Club, Best Buddies, Thespian Club, Garbage Crew, Key Club, Interact Club, Cycling Club, Math Club, Ping Pong Club, Biology Club, Physics Club, Black Student Union, Latino Student Union, Art Club, Creative Writing Club, Travel Club, New Life Campus Outreach Club, Middle Eastern Club, Korean Club, Indian Club, Muslim Student Association ( MSA ), CSF ( California Scholarship Foundation ), Vietnamese Student Association, Martial Arts Club, PHHS ( Pre-professional Health Honor Society ) and WAC ( World Affairs Club ).

It is still used by many Vietnamese emigrants now living in other countries, mainly because the current Vietnamese flag is considered to be offensive to them, as it's the flag of the current Communist regime-the regime most Overseas Vietnamese ( Viet Kieu ) fled from in the late 1970s and 1980s as Boat People.

Since then, it's become the name of rice field for rewarding Vietnamese mandarins: thác đao-abbreviation: thác-throw the knife and điền-rice field ), and ruộng ao of the common people.

Not be confused with Hu surname in Vietnamese, it's literally called Hồ.

# Viet Khang ( 1973 -), Vietnamese song writer and singer, now arrested and held in captivity by the Vietnamese communist regime, for his patriotic songs that highly criticized the regime and it's pro-China stance.

The US Navy program Operation Passage to Freedom saw up to one million North Vietnamese move south, most of them Catholics.

Diệm initiated a program of internal migration where 210, 000 Vietnamese, mainly Catholics, were moved to Montagnard land in fortified settlements.

In early 1962, the number of South Vietnamese Air Force students entering this program began to increase sharply.

The Air Force directed ATC to initiate immediately a training program for South Vietnamese F-5 pilot replacements.

From Saigon, pacification chief Robert Komer asserted that the " pacification " program in the countryside was succeeding, and that sixty-eight percent of the South Vietnamese population was under the control of Saigon while only seventeen percent was under the control of the Vietcong.

Surrendering to continued NLF advances and pressures from the Joint Chiefs, Johnson formally authorized a sustained bombing program, codenamed Rolling Thunder, which would not be tied to penguin North Vietnamese actions.

* Orderly Departure Program, a program to resettle Vietnamese refugees in the United States.

This program sparked a wave of rich Vietnamese parents buying the immigration rights from the real mothers or foster parents.

On November 15, 2005, the United States and Vietnam signed an agreement allowing additional Vietnamese to immigrate who were not able to do so before the humanitarian operation program ended in 1994.

Problems arose as the number of Vietnamese increased drastically and as a program of merely hard work replaced what was to have been a program for training the Vietnamese in work skills.

The administration did not, however, disclose that the island raids, although separate from the mission of the Maddox, had been part of a program of clandestine attacks on North Vietnamese installations called Operation Plan 34A.

They were intentionally spread out of fear by the U. S. resettlement program that the new Vietnamese arrivals would cluster in " ghettos ".

The Vietnamese government did not have any organized program to search for its own missing, in comparison to what it had established to search for American missing.

His postgraduate military education includes the National Defense University, the United States Army War College, the Command and General Staff College, and the Defense Language Institute's program in Vietnamese.

The South Vietnamese program was called Phụng Hoàng, after a mythical bird that appeared as a sign of prosperity and luck.

" Consequently, the military command in Vietnam issued a directive that reiterated that it had based the anti-VCI campaign on South Vietnamese law, that the program was in compliance with the laws of land warfare, and that U. S. personnel had the responsibility to report breaches of the law.

This program, the Trails Roads Interdiction Multisensor ( TRIM ) Project was designed to use then new technologies such as FLIR ( Forward Looking Infra-Red ) and LLLTV ( Low Light Level Television ) to track and attack North Vietnamese supplies and troops along the Ho Chi Minh Trail.

The Sealords program was a determined effort by U. S. Navy, South Vietnamese Navy, and allied ground forces to cut enemy supply lines from Cambodia and disrupt operations at his base areas deep in the delta.

The Navy kill-to-loss ratio against the North Vietnamese Air Force ( NVAF ) MiGs soared from 3. 7: 1 ( 1965 – 1967 ) to 13: 1 ( post 1970 ), while the Air Force, which had not implemented a similar training program, actually had its kill ratio worsen for a time after the resumption of bombing, according to Benjamin Lambeth's The Transformation of American Airpower.

The Lang Vei Special Forces Camp was placed under the control of the United States Army's Detachment A-101, Company C, 5th Special Forces Group, to train and equip locally-recruited Vietnamese through the Civilian Irregular Defense Group ( CIDG ) program.

The United States and Vietnam signed an agreement on Tuesday Nov 15, 2005, which allows those Vietnamese to immigrate who were not able to do so before the humanitarian program ended in 1994.