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2 weeks ago | 
houstonlanding.org | Dion Nissenbaum |Hillary Ma
Like many a legendary Texas tale, Tu Nguyen’s is one of murder, justice and revenge. It’s a story of one man’s quest to avenge the 1982 killing of his father, a pioneering investigative Vietnamese journalist gunned down in the driveway of his Houston home. The murder has never been solved. No one has ever been arrested. Nguyen has spent more than a decade trying to track down the people who killed his father.
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2 weeks ago | 
houstonlanding.org | Paul Cobler |Hillary Ma
Running for office is expensive, time consuming and stressful. Bryan Chu wants to do it anyway to show others they can, too. The 57-year-old arrived in the United States as a refugee from Vietnam when he was 14. The next 30 years of his life were spent going to school, working as an engineer, then a dentist, and dreaming of a return to his homeland. “The first 10, 20 years, Vietnam was still my country because everybody wanted to go back,” Chu said.
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2 weeks ago | 
houstonlanding.org | Dion Nissenbaum |Hillary Ma
Nikki Tran was enticed by Houston’s sweltering southeast Texas heat and a surprisingly large Vietnamese community that gave the Ho Chi Minh City-born restaurateur an intimate sense of home. But it was the city’s underappreciated reputation as a “global food mecca” that cemented Tran’s place as an international ambassador for Houston’s innovative culinary scene.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
presstelegram.com | Hillary Ma
September is Childhood Cancer and Sickle Cell Awareness Month. Hyundai Hope on Wheels of Hyundai Motor America, in honor of the monthlong effort, donated $100,000 to MemorialCare Long Beach’s Jonathan Jaques Children’s Cancer Institute — supporting research initiatives and program developments to help improve the quality of life for children diagnosed with serious conditions.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
presstelegram.com | Hillary Ma
City Council members are set to deliberate the renaming of the newly updated Junior Lifeguard Facility after two Long Beach residents, who have deep ties to the site, on Tuesday, October 1. Pat Flynn and Dick Miller were two Long Beach residents who kickstarted the Long Beach Junior Lifeguard Program in 1971 at the facility, shaping and training over 20,000 young lifeguards in the Long Beach area since the program’s inception.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
presstelegram.com | Hillary Ma
Long Beach will host an expo to help people know what to do during an earthquake and prepare for the annual Great ShakeOut drill on Saturday, Sept. 28. The Quake Heroes Earthquake Expo — which will be hosted by the city’s Department of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Communications, and the office of Third District Councilmember Kristina Duggan — will take place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Recreation Park Community Center, 4900 E.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
presstelegram.com | Hillary Ma
Nonprofit Friends of the Los Angeles River will return to Long Beach next month with its 34th Annual Great LA River Cleanup, aimed at beautifying the the body of water and preventing litter from entering the ocean. The cleanup will kick off on on Saturday, Oct. 5, at four sites along the upper, middle and lower sections of the river. Two of those locations, Willow Street Bridge and Compton Creek — both of which support unique local ecosystems — will be within reach of Long Beach residents.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
presstelegram.com | Hillary Ma
NBA star and Long Beach native Russell Westbrook help celebrate the grand reopening of the newly expanded Westbrook Academy campus with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Monday, Sept. 23. The event included guest remarks from Westbrook himself, Westbrook Academy Chief of Schools Jason Marin and Los Angeles Promise Fund President Veronica Melvin, followed by a guided tour of the new facility that will soon serve more than 400 middle and high school students across the South Los Angeles area.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
presstelegram.com | Hillary Ma
When Dr. Don Kim, medical director of Kim Holistic Foot & Ankle Center, was a resident doctor doing voluntary work in Tijuana, Mexico in the late 1980s, the sight of children playing soccer caught his eye. The kids, however, had no shoes — and Kim knew his mission after starting his medical practice was to create a shoe drive aimed at providing proper footwear to folks in need.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
dailybreeze.com | Hillary Ma
Q: The National Park Foundation received a $100 million grant, the largest in its history. So, I would like to know who regulates our national parks, and also what is the National Park Foundation? W.L., San GabrielA: First, let’s start with the National Park Service. It is a bureau within the Department of the Interior (thus, an agency of the federal government).
