Category: Featured
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Jim Vue wins in St. Paul school board race
Jim Vue, who has been serving as a St. Paul school board member on an interim basis, won the race Tuesday to fill the seat for the coming year, according to unofficial returns. The Hmong parent and … Read Full Article
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Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down By Anne Fadiman
The book “Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down” by Anne Fadiman was published in 1998 tells the History and the story about immigrating the Hmong Family from their home country Laos to the United … Read Full Article
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Mu Cang Chai named among world’s most beautiful destinations
Global travel site Big 7 Travel has listed Mu Cang Chai in northern Vietnam, famed for terraced rice fields, among its 50 most beautiful global destinations, according to VnExpress. Read Full Article
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Mu Cang Chai ranks among world top destinations
Mu Cang Chai’s terraced fields in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai has ranked 21st among the top 50 most beautiful destinations worldwide, as voted by Big 7 Travel. “When you imagine magni … Read Full Article
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From Laos to French Guiana: The story of the Hmong people
After fighting alongside the French in the Indochina war and the Americans during the Vietnam War, the Hmong people were forced to flee Laos when the Communists took power. On their arrival in … Read Full Article
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Review: ‘Somewhere in the Unknown World,’ by Kao Kalia Yang
American memoirist and St. Paul writer Kao Kalia Yang’s collection “Somewhere in the Unknown World” are haunting and vivid. Here, like innocent human detritus of the world’s political storms, the … Read Full Article
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Documenting Refugee Experiences in Iowa
The original goal of this summer project was to continue research that focused on refugees who resettled in northeast Iowa following the Vietnam War. With Covid-19, we were unable to connect in person … Read Full Article