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Traffic light at Hmong Village not coming anytime soon
Pedestrian safety has become a hot topic for the East Side this summer, with two deaths occurring earlier in the season. It has been the issue that the neighborhood committee, Racial Equity on Johnson Parkway and Ames Avenue East, has highlighted for months.
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Tailored lay health educator program ups CRC screening
(HealthDay)—An intervention involving bilingual/bicultural lay health educator (LHE) education can increase colorectal cancer (CRC) screening among Hmong-Americans, according to a study published online Aug. 26 in Cancer. Elisa K. Tong, M.D., from the …
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Linder’s Garden Center site sold for new charter school
A Hmong language and culture school has found a new home at the site of the former Linder’s Garden Center. A building company working with the Community School of Excellence paid $2.875 million for the 12-acre site and will build a new three-story school …
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Linder’s Garden Center site to be charter school’s new home
A Hmong language and culture school has found a new home at the site of the former Linder’s Garden Center. A building company working with the Community School of Excellence paid $2.875 million for the 12-acre site and will build a new three-story school …
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Residents seek talks over illegal resorts
In the letter, the locals — including Hmong hilltribe people — urged the authorities to halt the demolition and form a tripartite committee comprising Phu Thap Boek residents, security authorities and state officials to work out the problem. They also …
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Another big day at the fair for Minnesota’s Hmong
On Labor Day again this year, Hmong-Americans will take to the stage in Carousel Park for Hmong Minnesota Day at the Minnesota State Fair. The schedule offers a kaleidoscope of events, from honoring military veterans and registering voters in the morning …
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Lay health educators increase CRC screening in Southeast Asian immigrants
Americans of Hmong descent were more likely to undergo screening for colorectal cancer when given information by trained bilingual/bicultural Hmong lay health educators, according to the results of a cluster randomized controlled trial recently published …
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Obama’s Visit to Laos: Part 2—The Legacy of the War
During the Vietnam War, successive U.S. administration authorized a secret conflict in Laos, which came to include arming a large, mostly Hmong army, heavy bombing, and the insertion of small groups of CIA trainers and other contractors into the country.
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Minneapolis district’s Arabic program grows to reach Washburn High
In addition, the release said about 12,000 students in the district are enrolled in foreign language courses, including Hmong, Japanese, Latin, Ojibwe and Somali.
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MPS Expands Arabic Program to Washburn High School
According to the school district, about 12,000 Minneapolis students are enrolled in a world language course. Options include Arabic, Chinese, Dakota, French, German, Hmong, Japanese, Latin, Ojibwe, Somali, Spanish and American Sign Language.
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President Obama’s historic visit to Laos comes at the perfect time
It also gives hope and more opportunity to the more than 300,000 Hmong and 270,000 Laotian Americans to re-connect with their former homeland. California is home to the largest Hmong-American population (97,000) followed by Minnesota (67,000) and Wisconsin …
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California lawmakers enter final weeks of Congress seeking success
So has a familiar bill by Rep. Jim Costa, D-Fresno, authorizing the burial of Hmong veterans in U.S. national cemeteries. A bill by Rep. David Valadao, R-Hanford, to settle a big Westlands Water District irrigation drainage dispute is stuck for now.
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BREAKING: “I have found and befriended a lower-middle class white family”: The Greatest Living American Writer
“Among The Hmong.” As the beautiful Isabel Allende once said to me as we made love in a hammock at our Uruguayan costal retreat, “No one understands the forgotten like you do.” That said, there remains one group that, until now, I have …
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Refugees make community a better place
It was around Christmas. It was cold, with lots of snow on the ground, and a Hmong family moved in across the street. They moved here from a refugee camp in Thailand – never seen snow and never felt the cold of a Montana winter. I got to help them shovel …
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Linder’s Garden Center site will become Hmong charter school
A charter school group plans to spend $31 million converting the former Linder’s Garden Center in St. Paul into a school teaching Hmong language and culture. Finance & Commerce reports on a $2.8 million deal by Community School of Excellence to buy the 11 …
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Obama in Laos
An NBC News story described Laotian and Hmong Americans as “cautiously optimistic” about the visit, including the possibility of further reconciliation after the war years, or at least bringing the two countries closer together. “The visit of …
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UWSA Walks Out of Panglong, Decrying Inequality
I heard they have not gone back yet. We’ll talk to them,” Chin ethnic leader Salai Lian Hmong Sakhong told the media. Khin Zaw Oo and Salai Lian Hmong Sakhong went to the hotel, but the group had reportedly already left. The problem stemmed from …
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Minnesotans form first Hmong women’s PAC
ST. PAUL, Minn.–There’s a new player in the political arena that has a lot of people paying attention. A group of Hmong women from right here in Minnesota have come together to form, Maiv PAC, the nation’s very first Hmong women’s political action …