Hmong News – Thailand

Hmong News – Thailand

American Colleges Should End Racist Admissions Policies

Hmong-Americans—a group that came to America in the 1970s from China, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam to escape war—face poverty rates that rival any other racial group in the United States. But they are often placed in the “Asian” admissions category …

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Jerry Martinez of Lakeland stumbled into a career of providing translaters

It was in 1997 when he met one of his most memorable challenges. A client called, requesting an interpreter for Hmong, a dialect spoken mostly by people in China, northern Vietnam, Thailand and Laos and only about 260,000 people in the United States.

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Exhibit to highlight Guam Pulitzer winner’s career

Abroad, Crisostomo created the series “The Leftover People,” documenting the last wave of Hmong refugees making their way from Thailand to Sacramento. The series earned him the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for the Disadvantaged in photography in 2005.

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Hmong American Peace Academy Focuses On Helping Students ‘Achieve the American Dream’

After visiting refugee camps in Thailand with her husband, Chris Her-Xiong said she wanted to find a way to give back and help the children specifically. “We saw disparity, we saw young girls being sold as prostitutes, we saw children not having the …

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CIA spook recalls Thailand’s role in secret war

In Laos, he fought alongside thousands of anti-communist troops under General Vang Pao’s ethnic Hmong guerrillas, the Lao army and 4,000 US Special Forces-trained Thai “Tiger Soldiers” ( Tahan Sua Pran) against invading communist Vietnamese.

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Obama and the Secret US war in Laos

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As the Royal Laotian army crumbled, CIA operatives recruited, armed and trained an anti-communist guerrilla force estimated at 30,000 from among hill tribes, largely the Hmong. These were bolstered by a secret army of mercenaries from Thailand and US …

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Obama and the US secret war in Laos

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As the Royal Laotian army crumbled, CIA operatives recruited, armed and trained an anti-communist guerrilla force estimated at 30,000 from among hill tribes, largely the Hmong. These were bolstered by a secret army of mercenaries from Thailand and US …

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CIA spook recalls Thailand’s role in secret war

In Laos, he fought alongside thousands of anti-communist troops under General Vang Pao’s ethnic Hmong guerrillas, the Lao army and 4,000 US Special Forces-trained Thai “Tiger Soldiers” (Tahan Sua Pran) against invading communist Vietnamese. North Vietnam …

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Refugees make community a better place

It was around Christmas. It was cold, with lots of snow on the ground, and a Hmong family moved in across the street. They moved here from a refugee camp in Thailand – never seen snow and never felt the cold of a Montana winter. I got to help them shovel …

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Refugees make Missoula a better town

It was around Christmas. It was cold, with lots of snow on the ground, and a Hmong family moved in across the street. They moved here from a refugee camp in Thailand – never seen snow and never felt the cold of a Montana winter. I got to help them shovel …

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The tribes paying the brutal price of conservation

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The groups says that they have become squatters on their own land, with entry into the forest restricted. Thousands of ethnic Hmong and Karen hill tribes groups in northern Thailand have been displaced from their forests after they were designated national …

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$60 Sterling Silver Cuff Bracelets

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This adjustable silver cuff bracelet handcrafted by a Hmong tribesman in Thailand. Hmong silversmiths use traditional methods passed down through generations to produce beautiful silver works for art. The cuff can be adjusted to fit by squeezing or …

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Chiang Mai Getaway: Day Trip to Mon Cham

There were sinks, too. Hallelujah! Leaving Chiang Mai and visiting this part of the country gave us a glimpse into the life of the Hmong. This hill tribe is one of the many indigenous groups of Northern Thailand. We drove through their small town named …

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Eyes of the world examining refugee resettlement in Missoula

In her short stay, Wulfhorst needed to find the right people and hope they were willing to talk to her. Most of them are from a Hmong community that began arriving in Montana as refugees from Thailand after their native Laos fell to communist forces in 1975.

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Two Senior Democratic Politicians Lose Their Jobs to Immigrants

Joe Mullery, both from Minneapolis. They were beaten in state primaries on August 9 by two political newcomers: Somali-born, hijab-wearing Ilhan Omar and Thailand-born Hmong immigrant, Fue Lee. The primaries were arranged by the state’s Democratic …

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Omar victory recalls another ‘first’ for a woman from a refugee camp

She was five. After spending time in Thailand’s refugee camps, the family emigrated to the United States, she went to college, earned a law degree, and moved to Minnesota where she became the first Hmong American woman elected to a Legislature in 2002 …

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Challenger: ‘Paul Ryan to Blame for Importing TB to Wisconsin,’ After 40 Percent Increase in 2015

Between 2005 and 2014, the number of active TB cases reported in Wisconsin among foreign-born residents from the Hmong community (from Laos through Thailand) was 69. The number of active TB cases among foreign-born residents from Burma was 12. Breitbart …

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Minnesota memorial honors soldiers of ‘secret war’

Laos was neutral during the Vietnam War, but the CIA recruited Hmong soldiers to carry on a covert campaign. After the U.S. pulled out of Laos and Vietnam, tens of thousands fled and lived in refugee camps in Thailand. Many refugees eventually resettled in …

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