TV pitchman behind the plan to create a Hmong homeland insists it’s no scam
Fresno businessman Steve Moua says he was working with a Minnesota man to collect donations that they vowed would be used to create a country for Hmong refugees in Southeast Asia. He went on Hmong television to solicit tens of thousands of dollars for the …
Think Immigrants Are Taking Our Jobs? Try Picking Strawberries for a Day
Hmong workers pick strawberries in a Sonoma County, CA field. In California, 95% of agricultural workers are foreign-born. Flickr / Ah Zut But while they learned to talk about the labor considerations involved in industrial strawberry production …
How the Appetite for Emojis Complicates the Effort to Standardize the World’s Alphabets
One the consortium recently accepted is called Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong, devised for the Hmong language by a minister in California whose parishioners have been using it for more than 25 years. Still in the proposal stage is Tigalari, once used to write …
California Agriculture
The licensing system allowing growers to operate legally begins January 1, 2018. There are 1,500 Hmong cannabis growers in Siskiyou county, many retired from nonfarm jobs who moved to the area beginning in 2015. A third of the names in Mount Shasta Vista …
Hmong marijuana growers in California fight attempts to shut them down
SISKIYOU COUNTY, Calif. — The narcotics officer stood on a windswept ridge near the Oregon border and surveyed the fields cut into the hills below, a landscape resembling a lost piece of wine country. The terraces of Siskiyou County, however, were …
Ly v. County of Fresno
We conclude res judicata bars plaintiffs’ claims in this action and affirm the judgment. Plaintiffs, who are Laotians of Hmong ethnicity, worked for the County as correctional officers. They initiated this action in August 2009; before doing so they each …
Latest on NorCal fires. Dual Hmong New Year events. Driverless cars approach.
It’s Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017. Welcome to your Morning Scoop of fresh headlines and general good stuff. Sign up to get the Scoop in your email inbox. • In the Valley, we’ve seen and smelled the smoke from the Northern California wildfires. So take …
Fresno will host two Hmong New Year festivals this year. Which one will you attend?
The battle over who will host the annual Hmong New Year in Fresno has evolved into two rival events going on at the same time. In May, the Hmong Cultural New Year Celebration won the bid to host the Hmong New Year celebration at Fresno Fairground.
On the (Rising) Trail of Thai Food in America
That has changed with the intertwining of immigrant groups in California. Thai chefs today describe an informal partnership with ethnic Hmong refugees from Laos who came to America after the Vietnam War. Many settled as farmers in California’s Central …
Real Thai food lights up US palates
That has changed with the intertwining of immigrant groups in California. Thai chefs today describe an informal partnership with ethnic Hmong refugees from Laos who came to America after the Vietnam War. Many settled as farmers in California’s Central …
Latinos and Whiteness
I think the case that, say, the Vietnamese or the Hmong are now being coded white is much harder to make because in places such as southern California or Louisiana or Wisconsin where tensions abound around the long-term poverty in these communities …
Hmong: Schools Open up the Dialogue on the Vietnam War in California
Several schools in the Fresno district in California, USA, have now started offering language as well as history classes on the Hmong. The issues of tens of thousands of Hmong who fled to the US after the Vietnam War had previously not been addressed in …
Sacramento Girl Dies from Encephalitis, Leaving Family Devastated and Searching for Answers
Megan was her companion, her best friend,” the girl’s aunt, Rose Xiong, told FOX40. Megan Her loved her Hmong heritage and was the constant companion to her mother, Shary Xiong — who was stricken with kidney disease. It made her death all the more tragic.
When will Fresno’s promised rental inspection program begin?
The meeting will have Spanish and Hmong translators. The city attorney will also attend to answer questions. Virginia, the tenant, hopes she is home when the inspectors show up. “It’s necessary for somebody else to come and inspect the apartments …
Fresno Unified, teachers, Ashjian agree on one thing: Keep students out of strike talks
Videos with the same message were made in Spanish and Hmong, too. Parents and community members expressed their outrage in the comments on the Fresno Teachers Association Facebook page. One parent explained that parents are under the impression the …
Years After Tragedy, Fresno’s Hmong Seek Cultural Understanding for Next Generation
At 15, Sarah Vang is a confident leader. With her big, persistent smile, she runs her high school Hmong Club meeting with ease, spreading enthusiasm even to the most reluctant participants. She founded the club last year as a sophomore. And as president …
California authorities arrest 18, including Rastafarian church leader, in marijuana raids at numerous sites
2,700 plants seized in raid on illegal marijuana farm on Colorado forest land California county wants gov to declare state of emergency over illegal marijuana farms Hmong marijuana farmers in California are fighting attempts to shut them down 9,200 …
Obituaries for Sunday, Sept. 24
Arrangements: Farewell Funeral Service. CHANG — Kha Vang Chang, 71, of Fresno died Aug. 31. She was a homemaker. Traditional Hmong Service: 8 a.m. Sept. 30 to 8 a.m. Oct. 2 at Faith Community Religious Center. Arrangements: Cherished Memories Memorial …
