Vietnamese Dating: Fate, miracle bring couple to the altar
Soldier, new wife first met in Vietnam in '69
Brought together by the Vietnam War, separated by defeat and hate for two decades, married on Saturday. Army Sgt. Maj. Skip Ettinger calls it fate. His new wife, Phan Thi, simply calls it a miracle. The two tied the knot at Fort Carson, then walked beaming under the upraised swords of the infantry - an old-fashioned tradition at a wedding shaped by a modern-day war. "For so long I thought she was dead, and now she will be my wife," Ettinger said...
Vietnamese Dating: Census data downplay Cajun role in Louisiana
Those who care about the state's French and Cajun heritage might find cause for alarm in new U.S. Census data on ancestry in Louisiana. The number of those who consider themselves to be of French Canadian origin - which for Census officials includes all who called themselves Cajun - is in steep decline across south Louisiana since 1990. The number of those who reported being simply of French ancestry also is down, although not as dramatically. The timing seems ironic,...
Vietnamese Dating: A Change Of Address,
The outsourcing industry is moving to cheaper locales
India's robust outsourcing industry grew up in the country's major cities--New Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore, to name three. Prominent information-technology firms like Wipro, TCS and Infosys set up shop in those places, took advantage of smart but inexpensive technical talent, and flourished. In the mid- to late 1990s, Bangalore became one of the world's hottest IT centers. The city was clean, leafy, uncongested and offered financial incentives to businesses....
Vietnamese Dating: Vietnamese Find Many Roads to Success in O.C.
It's the Vietnamese answer to microwave dinners.For $8 a night, the A-Dong restaurant in Tustin will deliver to your home a three-course dinner for two packed in a special thermal container. All you have to do is cook rice. The next day, the restaurant picks up the container and drops off a fresh meal.In Vietnam, they call this home cooking service com thang, or "monthly rice." In Southern California, these Asian meals-on-wheels have become big...
Vietnamese Dating: EPICENTER OF THE RIGHT STATE'S RANKING GOP LEGISLATORS HAIL FROM GARDEN GROVE, WHERE CONSERVATISM IS A WAY OF LIFE. BLUE-COLLAR CITY BELIEVES LESS GOVERNMENT IS BEST
You must travel to this conservative, landlocked city, close to the heart of conservative Orange County, to dig at the roots of California's version of the Republican revolution.Only here - listening in on conversations across the meat counter at Zlaket's Market, chatting with the lunch rush at Kaye's Kitchen, joining with the throngs of Vietnamese shoppers at Vanco Foods - can you get a feel for the people and politics that have shaped the thinking of...