Anh Do

Staff Writer

Anh Do is a Metro reporter covering Asian American issues and Orange County. A second-generation journalist, she has worked at the Dallas Morning News, Seattle Times, Orange County Register and Nguoi Viet Daily News, the largest Vietnamese-language newspaper in the U.S. Born in Saigon, Do is a graduate of USC who also studied international relations in London and Spanish in Mexico City. Her writing on race and culture has won awards from Columbia University and the Asian American Journalists Assn. and she is a recipient of Yale’s Poynter Fellowship in Journalism. Apart from words, she’s passionate about all things canine, spending 25 years in dog rescue around the globe.

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Campaign to recall majority of Westminster’s city council advances with submission of signatures

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Campaign to recall majority of Westminster’s city council advances with submission of signatures

Organizers say they have enough signatures for a ballot measure to unseat Mayor Tri Tra as well as Kimberly Ho and Chi Charlie Nguyen, whom they accuse of corruption.
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Monks’ eviction from Long Beach Cambodian Buddhist temple riles congregation

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Monks’ eviction from Long Beach Cambodian Buddhist temple riles congregation

Hundreds of members oppose the eviction of monks from Khemara Buddhikaramain temple in Long Beach. One says it’s a “crime against humanity.”
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Du Tu Le, beloved Vietnamese poet who came to U.S. as a refugee, dies

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Du Tu Le, beloved Vietnamese poet who came to U.S. as a refugee, dies

Le wrote 77 volumes of poetry -- one for each year he lived
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Riverside County firefighters contain one brush fire while making significant progress on larger blaze

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Riverside County firefighters contain one brush fire while making significant progress on larger blaze

Crews report progress in containing the Sycamore Canyon blaze in Riverside, along with making progress fighting the Tejana and Red Bank fires across California.
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Targets of Westminster City Council recall campaign accuse opponents of misleading tactics

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Targets of Westminster City Council recall campaign accuse opponents of misleading tactics

Westminster mayor and councilman accuse backers of recall campaign of “bait and switch” tactics
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Huge political victory for O.C. Vietnamese Americans is threatened by ugly infighting

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Huge political victory for O.C. Vietnamese Americans is threatened by ugly infighting

The Westminster City Council’s Vietnamese American majority, the first in the nation, threatens to implode amid drama that has spurred recall efforts against all five members.
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Family of Anaheim girl shot by an officer cries for ‘answers that we deserve’

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Family of Anaheim girl shot by an officer cries for ‘answers that we deserve’

On the evening she died, Hannah Williams jumped into a rental car to run an errand a few miles from her home.
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The ‘Vietnamese American Starbucks’ unites four brothers whose drive stems from early poverty

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The ‘Vietnamese American Starbucks’ unites four brothers whose drive stems from early poverty

When the Nguyen brothers opened their first 7 Leaves coffee shop in 2012, they didn’t dare tell their mother and father.
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Last year he went on vacation to Vietnam. Now he faces 12 years in prison

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Last year he went on vacation to Vietnam. Now he faces 12 years in prison

A year ago, Michael Phuong Minh Nguyen said goodbye to his wife and four daughters in Orange County, promising to return in plenty of time to savor their summer together and continue his duties as dad, counselor, chauffeur and cheerleader, managing the children’s dance and sports activities.
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Orange County man imprisoned in Vietnam to go on trial in late June

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Orange County man imprisoned in Vietnam to go on trial in late June

An Orange County man imprisoned in Vietnam for more than 11 months is set to go on trial in late June, without access to legal counsel since his arrest, family members say.