Hmong News – Vietnam
42 participants in 4WDs explore greenery and culture of Thailand, Vietnam and Laos
Its Sunday market is famous for its bright colours and the extravagant costumes of the local people. Here you will find Flower Hmong (Red Hmong), Black Dao, Tay, Nung, La Chi, Phu La and other minority groups who come from far and wide to buy and sell a …
Life as ore scavengers for ethnic minority children in northern Vietnam
Dozens of children of the Hmong minority in northern Vietnam risk their lives every day working from dawn to dusk at the dumping ground of a local mineral processing plant in order to pay for food and education. The children’s tiny hands wearily scavenge …
Day 18: Resisting bargains in the Bac Ha market
Our guide introduced herself as Chai and it was easy to spot her in a crowd as a member of the northern Hmong people. The Hmong inhabit the highest reaches of this mountainous region of Vietnam and their finely pleated skirt exemplifies the Hmong expertise …
A CIA Evacuation from Vietnam: Suicides, Executions & Risk
The 706-page book includes biographical and often bloody details. It displays photographs of CIA officers, Hmong and Vietnamese soldiers, maps, bomb sites, dead bodies and one nude Lao bar girl. On April 23, 1975, one week before communist North Vietnam …
Cloth as Community: HOMONG Textiles in America featured at EHS&M
Hmong flower cloth (or paj ntaub) is one of the world’s great textile traditions and an excellent example of cloth as community. Despite its deep roots in Hmong culture, this complex art was not widely known outside Asia until after the Vietnam War …
The Common-Sense Solution For Resettling Refugees That We All Missed
She points to the Hmong people of Laos who fled the North Vietnamese. “Many settled in the Appalachian region,” Niburg says, because the mountainous terrain there is similar to what they had back home. Refugee groups tend to self-segregate, Niburg adds …
The family talked jackpots at a barbecue. Then they split record $1.7M win 17 ways.
Seventeen brothers, sisters and cousins, all ethnic Hmong whose families settled in North Carolina from Laos and Vietnam, pooled their money and bought Cash 5 tickets at Cubbard Express on U.S. 321 NW in Hickory that June 3 night. Now they’re splitting a …
17 Family Members Split $1.7M Cash 5 Jackpot
The seventeen winners, whose families settled in North Carolina from parts of Laos and Vietnam, are Hmong. During a family barbecue on Saturday, they decided to pool their money and get tickets for that night’s Cash 5 drawing. They bought the tickets from …
7 Amazing Ethnic Artisanal Traditions From Around the World
The Hmong tribe are an Asian ethnic group that originate from the mountain regions of China, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand yet who migrated during the 18th century to seek out more workable land. Today, whilst many Hmong are living deep within remote forest …
Sa Pa, Fansipan listed among Top 10 Southeast Asian hikes
In addition, the landscape has a variety of trails to suit all levels of hikers, from half-day hikes to Dao and Hmong villages to a 4-day trek up to the highest peak in Vietnam – Fansipan. Furthermore, Sapa has refreshing temperatures and is home to hill …
Foreign tourists experience plowing rice paddies with water buffalo in Vietnam’s Sa Pa
According to Lao Cai’s Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, never before has Sa Pa welcomed as many visitors as it does today, thanks to the natural and cultural beauty of the ethnic Hmong people. Nearly 2.3 million tourists visited Sa Pa’s Mu …
Overcome ‘fears,’ Catholic journalists in Vietnam told
The bishop noted the internet’s place as an “indispensable part of people’s lives,” from children to the elderly. “I see many ethnic Hmong children, who lack food and clothes and live in shabby houses in remote areas, use smartphones to surf the internet …
EEOC secures $475,000 settlement with Wisconsin plastics manufacturer after alleged discrimination
Among the affected employees were a group of Hmong workers – an ethnic group of people who live in China, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand – and a group of Hispanic workers. The EEOC said these employees did not need English to do their jobs. Purported …
Overcoming the odds: Apparel design graduate works her way to degree, promising future
She is the eighth of 11 children born to Hmong parents, who had left Laos for a Thai refugee camp in the difficult aftermath of the Vietnam War. Her odds improved at age 3 when her family moved to Wausau in central Wisconsin. However, the role of the …
Communist Laos gets first-ever cardinal
Most of the Catholics are of Vietnamese descent and live in urban areas in central and southern Laos, while others are members of hill tribes, including Hmong. The new cardinal is an ethnic Khamu, a hill tribe living in northern Laos and southern China.
Twin Cities PBS seeks personal Vietnam War stories for a digital Story Wall
In addition to the Story Wall, TPT is producing an event series and two original documentaries: The first is about the CIA’s “secret war” in Laos that will feature never-before-heard accounts from Hmong Special Guerrilla Unit soldiers and their families …
How Vietnam transformed into a place of harmonious chaos and serenity
We overnight in a Hmong village hut fragrant with wood smoke, and the next morning come across a lone figure, swathed in a ruby-red blanket, guarding his valuable teak trees (a machete is parked in the crook of a nearby trunk). Women haul slabs of teak …
Rep. Diaz bill would require schools to note ethnic distinctions among Asian students
Grace Diaz (D-Providence) says. The data ignores the reality that there are more than 48 ethnicities within that category; students of Indian, Bangladeshi, Cambodian, Chinese, Filipino, Hmong, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Pakistani, Thai, Vietnamese …
