Tag: jungle
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Behind Laos’s Ambitious Pha Tad Ke Botanic Garden
That involved long, challenging trips into remote jungle villages to source seeds and cuttings and gather knowledge from Hmong hill tribe mò ya (plant specialists). “This is our first rainy season since opening and to see it looking like this right now … Read Full Article
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Top 10 Fascinating Facts About Laos
Imagine what it must be like for the descendants of the Hmong fighters who took part in the Vietnam War. Your grandparents were trained by the CIA to kill communists, so your whole family has been on the run, hiding in the jungle, and conducting guerrilla … Read Full Article
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Making a meal of the mighty Mekong: Author Sandra Howard is served up treat after treat as she unlocks the secrets of laidback Laos
He talked of the lowland and upland tribes, and his own remote mountain tribe, the Hmong, who lived without running water or electricity. We stopped for the night at the small jungle town of Pakbeng and settled in at the Luang Say Lodge, which I loved. Read Full Article
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Born in a Thai refugee camp, she’s now a Twin Cities attorney
And that’s really what it is … Our [Hmong refugee] story is of fleeing the jungle, of hiding, of having to drug kids with opium so they don’t cry in the middle of the night and give away the location.” Moua arrived in Minnesota in July 1982. She’s now 35. Read Full Article
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CWHP Delegation to Washington DC and Brussels Discusses Dire Situation of the Hmong in the Laotian Jungle
Ms Mai Yia Thao, Mr James Her and Mr Gymbay Moua from the Congress of World Hmong People (CWHP) visited Washington, DC and Brussels between 24 and 30 April 2017. Together with members of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) Secretariat … Read Full Article
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Rammed earth school in Vietnam blooms like a colorful jungle flower
The far reaches of northern Vietnam are beautiful but heartbreakingly poor. Children of the Hmong ethnic minority who live in the villages routinely suffer from lack of access to healthcare and education. Vietnamese architecture firm 1+1>2 has provided a … Read Full Article
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‘We are your neighbors’
Three young dancers demonstrated traditional Hmong movements in front of a brightly colored mural depicting a jungle replete with lush green foliage, cheerfully clambering monkeys, bright flowers and butterflies. The dancers looked festive and graceful in … Read Full Article
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A Conversation with a “Jungle” Asian American
There aren’t a lot of Asian Americans like me (first and second generation Korean Americans.) However, my home state hosts the largest population of Hmong Americans in the United States. May Lee-Yang, a good friend and collaborator, is one of these Hmong … Read Full Article
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Search and recovery mission
Griffin will work 28 out of 30 days he spends in the jungle, leading an expeditionary team of 18 active military members and 50 local Hmong villagers in examining more than a quarter acre of dirt and soil to find what, at times, feels like a needle in a … Read Full Article
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Intensification of Lao PDR Military Campaign Against Hmong Community
The Laotian army has in recent days intensified its ongoing military campaign against the Hmong Indigenous community taking refuge in the jungles of the Phou Bia region of Laos. On 13 June 2016 it was reported that several helicopters landed in the jungle … Read Full Article