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Chiang Mai Getaway: Day Trip to Mon Cham
There were sinks, too. Hallelujah! Leaving Chiang Mai and visiting this part of the country gave us a glimpse into the life of the Hmong. This hill tribe is one of the many indigenous groups of Northern Thailand. We drove through their small town named …
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Fundraising Underway for 1st Chinese Garden in Minnesota
St. Paul and Changsha, China, have been sister cities since 1988, and Changsha is also the ancestral home to Minnesota Hmong, according to the society. Plans for the garden have been in the works since it was included in the Phalen-Keller Master Plan in 2011.
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Mia’s $6 million initiative will reach out to Asian-Americans
This is a great opportunity, for example, to reach out to the Hmong community. We have astonishing holdings in Hmong costumes, and so we would love to work with that community to bring that section of the collection to life.” The Gale Asian Art Initiative …
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From Refugee Camps To The Statehouse: Two Groundbreaking Primary Victories In Minnesota
His victory over veteran incumbent Rep. Joe Mullery (D) was considered something of an upset. In an interview with the Hmong Times, Lee said that part of what motivated his decision to run is his desire to “help marginalized communities to engage in …
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Eyes of the world examining refugee resettlement in Missoula
In her short stay, Wulfhorst needed to find the right people and hope they were willing to talk to her. Most of them are from a Hmong community that began arriving in Montana as refugees from Thailand after their native Laos fell to communist forces in 1975.
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The face of Southern Utah is changing … for the better
LDS missionaries from Southern Utah are sent all over the world. They teach and baptize in Hmong, Japanese, African and Filipino neighborhoods. These young men and women come home speaking fluent Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, German, Tagalog or dozens of …
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Manfred and Yang to read at Banfill-Locke
Yang is the author of “The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir,” published in 2005 by Coffee House Press, and “The Song Poet,” published this year by Metropolitan Books. “The Latehomecomer” won two Minnesota Book Awards and has been widely chosen as a …
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Borsuk: On eve of school year, reasons for optimism
I hope this will be a new and good day for the school. Up arrow: Hmong American Peace Academy. What a good record this charter school is building. With more than 1,300 students last year, it has outgrown the large former Morse Middle School on the …
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Kid Council teaches youngsters how to work out their problems
Hmong and Karen populations over the years. It’s unique shape — Maplewood is shaped like a seven — can further isolate sections of the community, city officials say. The program — called Kid City — is a partnership between Z Puppets and Maplewood …
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Dennis Anderson: The best place to fish? Wherever you can
Both boys speak Hmong as well as English, and both incessantly bug Jake, who is married to their sister, to take them fishing. “My biggest fish,” Steffen said proudly, “was a largemouth bass I caught in Long Lake in Mound.” Their other shoreline hotspots …
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Farm prospers by providing land, larger markets for Hmong farmers
Xai Tou Yang stands by an oversized gray bin, bundling his harvest of snakelike green ropes — actually long beans — inside a refrigerated pole barn near Hastings. For the second year, he’s helping his daughter work about 10 acres of land, subleased …
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From history to Hmong future
Keeb kwm hmoob tseem tsis tau meej rau nqe twg thiab luag pejkum haiv ua li cas luag thiaj ciaj tau ua ib haiv. Cov pawg neeg me thiab cov neeg txum tim nrog rau cov kev txhim kho ntawm cov teb chaws South East Asia Minority & Indiginous and Development in …
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Oroville area church services
9 a.m.-noon., Bishop Dee Garth Fairbanks, 589-1065. Table Mountain 1st Ward, 167 Table Mountain Blvd. 9 a.m.-noon. Table Mountain Hmong Branch, 167 Table Mountain Blvd. Bishop Drew Henry. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Sacrament meeting, President Vang Choua Chue …
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Photos: Farmers markets now ripe
One farmer discussing the sweetness of his heirloom tomatoes will have you buying more than you can eat in a week. A booth set up with Hmong farmers will be loaded with so many varieties of squash you’ll be making up recipes in your head just so you can …
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Missoula prepares for refugee family
“We actually have a fair amount of experience with non-English speaking students in term of distant history, both the Hmong refugees and the Russian refugees impacted the district and we worked to accommodate these populations as they transitioned into our …
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Fresno’s Hmong farmers suffer in drought as wells on rented land go dry
Chongyee Xiong has been sleeping in a tent on his Sanger farm since the commercial well went dry in April, when he hooked up the irrigation system to a shallower residential well. At night, he wakes up every three hours to turn the water pump on for …
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Value of some government studies isn’t obvious: Letters
Re “Studying waste in federal health research” (Editorial, Aug. 10): This editorial came out about three weeks after I learned a distant relative was offering $25 per person to participate in a study of obese Hmong women. A quick search on Google …
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Wausau teen receives “Paul Bunyan Service Above Self ” award
Representative Sean Duffy presented it to Fong Moua, who started a youth program called “Help Making Our Next Generation,” or H.M.O.N.G., which teaches Hmong heritage to children. “They say that volunteering isn’t a fun thing to do, but to be honest …