Well, her last name is Vietnamese. But perhaps her family identify themselves as "Chinese."
There's quite a significant number of ethnic Chinese in Vietnam (my own parents being so); Melanie's surname Huynh is Vietnamese but that surname is also equivalent to Wong. When Chinese immigrants arrived in Vietnam, their Chinese surnames were translated into Vietnamese.
If that article is correct, we can assume her father was an ethnic Chinese from Vietnam (Hoa). 'Huynh' is in fact a very common last name amongst the Chinese-Vietnamese.
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