内容摘要：Albanese said the first world leader to congratulate him on his election victory was Papua New Guinea Prime Minister

Albanese said the first world leader to congratulate him on his election victory was Papua New Guinea Prime Minister

Kien Tam Nguyen, center, founder of Advance Beauty College, is introduced to a group of student visitors alongside her son and chairman of the school, Tam Nguyen, left, and Ted Nguyen of the Orange County Transportation Authority, right, during an event at the school in the Little Saigon neighborhood of Garden Grove, Calif., April 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)Three Vietnamese women work in a traditional dress shop in the Little Saigon neighborhood of Westminster, Calif., April 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Three Vietnamese women work in a traditional dress shop in the Little Saigon neighborhood of Westminster, Calif., April 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)Two Vietnamese women shop for fruit at a market in the Little Saigon neighborhood of Westminster, Calif., April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)Two Vietnamese women shop for fruit at a market in the Little Saigon neighborhood of Westminster, Calif., April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

“I don’t really think about it in a negative light,” said Linda Nguyen, a local business leader whose parents were refugees. “For my generation, it’s about honoring what happened, but also celebrating our future and our current successes.”Little Saigon in Orange County has evolved from a commercial district contained within a few city blocks in Westminster in the late 1980s to a sprawling region spanning several cities. It’s also now considered the cultural capital for the Vietnamese diaspora around the world.

“We were looking for a freedom to prosper,” said Trí Trần, a University of California, Irvine professor who left Vietnam by sea on a boat in 1986.

Today, thousands of restaurants, shops and offices bear Vietnamese names.Restaurant owner Shin Byung-chul peers from behind a flyer he put up of Kenneth Barthel at his restaurant in Busan, South Korea, May 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

He hung flyers all over Busan, where his mother abandoned him at a restaurant. She ordered him soup, went to the bathroom and never returned. Police found him wandering the streets and took him to an orphanage. He didn’t think much about finding his birth family until he had his own son, imagined himself as a boy and yearned to understand where he came from.He has visited South Korea four times, without any luck. He says he’ll keep coming back, and tears rolled down his cheeks.

Some who make this trip learn things about themselves they’d thought were lost forever.In a small office at the Stars of the Sea orphanage in Incheon, South Korea, Maja Andersen sat holding Sister Christina Ahn’s hands. Her eyes grew moist as the sister translated the few details available about her early life at the orphanage.