Tag: Vietnamese
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Two 12-Year-Old Girls Abducted
Vu Thi Dinh spent months searching for her missing 12-year-old daughter in the rugged Vietnamese borderland near China after she vanished with her best friend, clutching a photo of the round-faced … Read Full Article
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‘Children of the Mist’ Review: Extraordinary Vietnamese Doc Follows a Clash of Values Over a Child’s Marriage
Like many girls her age, 12-year-old Di is not easily parted from her phone. All but welded to her hand, it’s the device through which she communicates most freely, sharing secret thoughts … Read Full Article
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Finding refuge in central Wis.: Wausau man shares refugee experience
Tucked amongst the tree and hills of Thailand near the Laotian border in the 1970s, a camp called Ban Vinai was the largest encampment of Hmong refugees fleeing the North Vietnamese. That is where … Read Full Article
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Filipino, Vietnamese, Thai students ‘invisible’ victims of STEM inequality
Graduate School of Education research sought to identify disparities in the STEM pipeline and college-selectivity rates among Asian Americans. Filipino students are nearly 60% less likely to major in … Read Full Article
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State of Minnesota opens new COVID-19 relief grant program
Businesses can find translated program information, including “How To Apply” videos, in Hmong, Somali, Spanish and Vietnamese on DEED’s website: … Read Full Article
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Filipino, Vietnamese and Thai students are ‘invisible’ victims of inequality in STEM fields
The findings of the UB study highlight the need for higher education leaders to understand the specific needs of underrepresented Asian American ethnic subgroups and develop sustainable reform … Read Full Article
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As Afghan refugees arrive in the U.S., Southeast Asian American advocates urge more support
Many Vietnamese, Lao, Hmong, and Cambodian Americans see their own families’ journeys to America in the voyage Afghans are making now. Read Full Article
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52 Years Ago, Vietnamese Commandos Overran a Covert U.S. Military Base
Only six of the eighteen CIA and Air Force personnel manning the remote outpost escaped with their lives in an incident that would remain veiled in secrecy for three decades. Read Full Article
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Remember Vietnam as Afghanistan falls
I was 4 years old when Saigon fell, so I do not remember any of it. I count myself lucky, since many Vietnamese who survived the end of that war … Read Full Article
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Notable Women in Education: Duong Duong
As a Vietnamese refugee in the U.S., Dr. Duong Duong, an administrator and teacher at the Hmong American Peace Academy, says she has “always felt a strong pull towards education … Read Full Article
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Vietnam youth submits climate action for COP26
Photos: UNDP Vietnam Vietnamese youth has submitted a Special Report entitled “Youth for Climate Action in Vietnam” in the dialogue with the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) … Read Full Article
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This Secret U.S. Military Base Fell to the Enemy — Vietnamese Commandos
Fifty years ago on March 12, 1968, a top-secret U.S. base on a mountain top in Laos was overrun by an elite force of Vietnamese commandos. Only six of the eighteen CIA and Air Force personnel manning … Read Full Article
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Shooting at the Moon: The Story of America’s Clandestine War in Laos
In Shooting at the Moon, Roger Warner chronicles a covert operation that used Hmong villagers as guerrilla fighters against the North during the Vietnamese War. Thought to be an expendable resource by … Read Full Article
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Photo shows ethnic minority group in Laos in 2003, photographer says
A photo has circulated on social media alongside a claim it shows a group of South Vietnamese people shortly before they were killed by North Vietnamese troops at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. Read Full Article
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Border guards intercept Vietnamese border jumpers from Laos
A group of six Vietnamese border jumpers were caught trying to sneak into Vietnam on Sunday evening through the country’s border with Laos. Authorities in Nam Giang District, Quang Nam Province, where … Read Full Article
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Frontier Livelihoods: Hmong in the Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands
In this book, we offer an examination of the predicaments, choices, and fates of members of one such minority group, known by its most common ethnonym, the Hmong.¹ There are approximately four million … Read Full Article