Raising my family in Singapore has meant that air travel is second nature to my two young kids. Between long-haul flights to visit family back in the US to weekends spent exploring Southeast Asia, I ...

"Once upon a time, I used to visit my grandmother there." We're in northern Vietnam and my mom, Duc Le, is pointing across the street to a narrow, four-story building. It's a sweltering day in the ...

After Vietnam removed its two-child limit, pharmacy worker Nguyen Thi Nguyet Nga says she still has no plans to have more kids, since she barely has time to see her daughters or the money to provide ...

April 1975. Saigon is falling. The North Vietnamese army is closing in. In the chaos, thousands of south Vietnamese orphan kids wonder if they will survive. Jeff Gahr is one of those orphans. His ...

Seven-year-old Helen Lan Anh Shorack is quickly becoming an origami expert. But unlike most American children her age, Helen can name her origami creations in Vietnamese as well as English. Helen was ...

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