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Vietnam War memorial in Little Saigon, Houston, Texas, United States. Vietnamese Walk of Honor Sign. Little Saigon, also popularly known as Vietnamtown or simply Viet-Town, is a neighborhood in Houston, Texas centered on Bellaire Boulevard west of Chinatown. It is one of the largest Vietnamese enclaves in the United States.
By 2010 the number of Asian-Americans in Greater Houston was over 417,000. [19] In 2010 John B. Strait and Gang Gong, authors of the article "Ethnic Diversity in Houston, Texas: The Evolution of Residential Segregation in the Bayou City, 1990–2000," stated that Asians were "only modestly segregated from" non-Hispanic whites. [20]
The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) is a state agency of Texas. TDLR is responsible for licensing and regulating a broad range of occupations, businesses, facilities, and equipment in Texas. [1] TDLR has its headquarters in the Ernest O. Thompson State Office Building in Downtown Austin. [2] [3]
Some states may require a written examination for a license, while others may require several years of field experience as a student or intern, or both. The requirements regarding who must be licensed may include uncommon or strange licenses; for example, four states require licensing for interior designers. [4]
A migrant nail salon worker is a nail technician, manicurist, esthetician, or masseuse working in a migrant, often Asian–owned nail salon in America. These workers are mostly women, including immigrants from Vietnam, South Korea, China, and Latin America.
Mayor of Houston Annise Parker stated that the growing Asian population of Houston made this flight an important one. [23] In 2004 China Airlines started a flight from Houston to Taipei stopping in Seattle, making it the first Asian carrier to fly to Houston. [24] The airline stated that many Taiwanese companies had offices in Houston. [25]
As of the 2010 U.S. Census, Harris County had 80,409 ethnic Vietnamese, making up 28.7% of the Asians in the county.As of the same year, 15% of the Asians in Fort Bend County were of Vietnamese origins, making them the third largest Asian ethnic group in the county.
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