Tag: Southeast Asia
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Hmong Australian agribusiness
Banana has a very long and impressive history. Scientists believed that banana is originated from Southeast Asia for 10 thousand years, then it spread to India and Africa as well as Polynesia, then la… Read Full Article
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Madison Finance Committee recommends RFP process for Southeast Asian elder programming
Kajsiab House was a program of Journey Mental Health Center that served Hmong elders, including refugees and veterans who fought for the U.S. in the Vietnam War. Journey also provided a Cambodian Temp… Read Full Article
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Family serves as missionaries in Thailand
A factor that lead to that decision, Fung said, is the family realized LCMS does not have any missionaries sent to work specifically with the Hmong people in Southeast Asia. “There are approximately 2 … Read Full Article
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Daniel Yang: The Missional Narrative of an Immigrant
(Jer. 29:4-7, ESV) In 1975, the Americans pulled out of Southeast Asia and left many of the Hmong people stranded. My family was among the tens of thousands stranded in their home country of Laos. Tho… Read Full Article
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The Kurds Deserve Our Protection
The Kurdish people have been abandoned before by world powers, and it would be tragic were they to be again left to the mercy of their brutal enemies, like the Southeast Asian Hmong were when the … Read Full Article
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Overseas adventure begins career in textiles for Fairport native
Quitting her job at a hotel in Dubai and then backpacking around Southeast Asia for five months was a fateful step for Natalie Dickerson that led her to a life she never could have predicted. Dickerso… Read Full Article
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Kaiser donates to mental health services for Southeast Asians
FIRM plans to work in conjunction with Stone Soup Fresno and Fresno Center for New Americans to support Fresno County’s Hmong, Laotian and Cambodian communities. The three agencies have worked closely … Read Full Article
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South Bay Officials Condemn White House Plan to Deport Vietnamese Immigrants
It also released a list of funded relief resources for Vietnamese, Hmong, Laotian, Cambodian and other members of the local Southeast Asian community worried worried about detention or deportation. Th… Read Full Article
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Events in Hanoi & HCMC on December 17-23
“Taste of Time” – Contemporary Classical Concert features 7 distinctive compositions of Southeast Asian musicians. With their inspiration taken from each author’s own culture and their … Read Full Article
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Seeking a New Home
Forty years ago, Hmong immigrants fleeing their Southeast Asian homeland found a new home in the Chippewa Valley. Now, the Eau Claire Area Hmong Mutual Assistance Association needs a new home as well. … Read Full Article
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Developing Diversity
Forty years ago, Hmong immigrants fleeing their Southeast Asian homeland found a new home in the Chippewa Valley. Now, the Eau Claire Area Hmong Mutual Assistance Association needs a new home as well. … Read Full Article
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“Who Are We, Really, Without Our History?”
For Blong Xiong, the university’s Southeast Asian Digital Archive is a way to share his own history and that of other Hmong who fled the secret war waged by the CIA in Laos. “This is the history of wh… Read Full Article
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Feeling the heat? Go on holiday at these nearby Southeast Asian cities that are cooler than the rest
To keep you warm, check out the gorgeous woven blankets handmade by the Hmong tribe that lives in the hills of Sapa. Sapa, Vietnam/Youtube screengrab Sapa’s beauty is spectacular, and the … Read Full Article
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Feeling the heat? Go on holiday to these nearby Southeast Asian cities that are cooler than the rest
To keep you warm, check out the gorgeous woven blankets handmade by the Hmong tribe that lives in the hills of Sapa. Sapa, Vietnam/Youtube screengrab Sapa’s beauty is spectacular, and the … Read Full Article
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After disagreement, services to Madison Hmong elders split between two groups
After Madison’s Journey Mental Health Center announced in August that it was closing Kajsiab House, a unique therapy program for the city’s Hmong community, members of Madison’s Southeast Asian commun… Read Full Article
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Immigration can change gut bacteria, recent UMN study finds
The study, published on Nov. 1, looked at Southeast Asian immigrant communities in Minnesota, including Hmong and Karen communities from Thailand. The researchers were aided by the Somali, Latino and … Read Full Article
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U.S. Immigrants Leave Country—and Microbes—Behind
He’s referring to first- and second-generation immigrant women, from the Hmong and Karen ethnic minorities in southeast Asia. His team sequenced the DNA found in their feces. And they saw that there w… Read Full Article