Hmong News – Vietnam
Still a Clinton community: Trump is viewed unfavorably by 55 percent of Indian Americans
Besides Indian Americans, NAAS polled 9 other Asian American sub groups: Vietnamese, Filipino, Chinese, Cambodian, Hmong, Korean, Japanese, Pakistani and Bangladesh Americans. Overall only 32 percent Asian Americans have a favorable view of the 45th …
State Lines: California poetry: Mai Der Vang’s ‘Transmigration’
Mai Der Vang’s award-winning first book, “Afterland,” shares the experience of Hmong refugees who fled to the United States at the end of the Vietnam War. “Transmigration” is a central poem in the collection. In a prayerful tone, the speaker …
A Visual Tour Of Anthony Bourdain’s Laos Episode Of ‘Parts Unknown’
recruiting and training Hmong tribesmen to fight the North Vietnamese, and the Laotian Pathet Lao, as well as controlling a vast secret air war. The undeclared and largely unknown war on this tiny Southeast Asian nation continued for nearly two decades …
Richard Bammer: Time for VUSD leaders to approve by-area elections
The top five, in order, according to a 2007 U.S. Census survey, are Spanish, 10 million; Chinese, 1 million; Tagalog, 700,000; Vietnamese, 500,000; Korean, 350,000 (followed by Farsi/Persian, Armenian, Russian, Arabic, Khmer/Cambodian, Hmong and Laotian).
A prideful remembrance for Hmong-American soldiers
With 2,500 small American flags fluttering on the lawn amid retired military equipment, a group of Hmong-American solders who fought alongside U.S. forces in Vietnam, including those who didn’t make it home, were honored. Print 7 days a week + e-Edition …
Hmong Soldiers Of America’s ‘Secret War’ Heading To D.C.
ST. PAUL, Minn. (WCCO) — We see it on the aging faces and decorated chests. These Hmong-American soldiers who sacrificed so much – so many years ago – in support of America’s secret war effort in Vietnam. “Everybody just knew about the Vietnam …
Can low-wage industries survive without immigrants and refugees?
At the time, manufacturing was thriving in the Southeast and the white and African-American workers the company had employed — even the Hmong refugees who settled there after the Vietnam War — left for better-paying jobs at local furniture factories.
At Fitchburg library, pole stands tall with message of peace
On it, the 7-foot pole has the words “May Peace Prevail On Earth” translated into the languages of immigrants who have settled in Fitchburg over the years — English, Spanish, Somali, French, Italian, Vietnamese, Hmong and Lao. The pole was a donation to …
Tou & Mai brings bubble tea and other drinkable desserts to Detroit
In addition, the shop also sells lattés, available as ice, frozen, or hot. The couple embraces their Hmong culture. Traditionally, Hmong people live in isolated highlands of southeast Asia. They were heavily recruited by the CIA during the Vietnam War to …
Asian-American women need better targeted breast cancer therapy
In this study, the seven major ethnicities evaluated were Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, Vietnamese, South Asians (Asian Indians and Pakistanis), and Southeast Asians (Cambodians, Laotians, Hmong, Thai). All Asian-American groups, with the exception …
Republican Lawmaker: Women Get Abortions for ‘a Free Trip to the City’
Eastman, who was previously the single “no” vote in the Alaska House on bills honoring Lao and Hmong veterans of the Vietnam War, isn’t the first state lawmaker to draw strong criticism for his tone-deaf statements on women’s health. Earlier this year …
Asian-American breast cancer rate increases
The study looked at the following ethnic groups: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, Vietnamese, South Asians (Indians and Pakistanis) and Southeast Asians (Cambodians, Laotians, Hmong and Thai). Among those included in the study, researchers noted that …
Far from a Burden, Refugees Are a Net Positive Economically
Take a look at the 100-plus year history of the Armenian community in Fresno, California, and in recent years, the Hmong; Bosnians who fled the 1990s civil war and relocated to St. Louis; Vietnamese in cities such as San Jose and Houston; or the Haitians …
Alaska lawmakers mull measure calling abortion ‘child abuse’
Eastman, who was elected last fall, has taken other provocative positions. His was the lone no vote in the House on bills honoring Hmong and Lao veterans of the Vietnam War and the contribution of 4,000 black U.S. soldiers who endured harsh conditions …
From Laos to drones: how the CIA got a taste for war
Like the pro-Western government of South Vietnam, the Hmong were to act as a bulwark against the spread of communism from China and North Vietnam to Thailand and India and beyond, a process first enunciated by Eisenhower in 1954 as the “domino effect”.
Last CIA evacuee bitterly recalls U.S. Embassy cowardice, betrayals as Saigon fell to North Vietnam
The colorful, 706-page book includes photographs of CIA officers, Hmong and Vietnamese soldiers, maps of bomb sites, and pictures of dead bodies and one nude Lao bar girl. His memories of the bitter end remain especially vivid. One week before the …
More Asian American women getting breast cancer
The study focused on the seven major Asian populations that migrated to the United States — Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, Vietnamese, South Asians (Asian Indians and Pakistanis), and Southeast Asians (Cambodians, Laotians, Hmong, Thai).
The last CIA agent in Saigon bitterly marks its chaotic end
The colorful, 706-page book includes photographs of CIA officers, Hmong and Vietnamese soldiers, maps of bomb sites, and pictures of dead bodies and one nude Lao bar girl. His memories of the bitter end remain especially vivid. One week before the …
