Hmong News – Vietnam
Rammed earth school in Vietnam blooms like a colorful jungle flower
The far reaches of northern Vietnam are beautiful but heartbreakingly poor. Children of the Hmong ethnic minority who live in the villages routinely suffer from lack of access to healthcare and education. Vietnamese architecture firm 1+1>2 has provided a …
Anoka-Hennepin’s first EL survey garners positive results
About a quarter of parents surveyed spoke Spanish. Hmong followed as the second-most common spoken language with 17 percent of respondents indicating that Hmong is their preferred language. Other commonly spoken languages include Vietnamese, Somali …
Review: ‘A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA,’ by Joshua Kurlantzick
The war in Laos (1961-1975) brought the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and Hmong together as allies when the agency engaged the Hmong to fight the North Vietnamese and the Communist Pathet Lao. Author Joshua Kurlantzick has written an authoritative …
Vietnam: Wow! Hospital Worker Leads 50 to Christ in Two Days
(Photo: inside a Vietnam hospital/via God Reports) Despairing over her condition, the parents decided to receive prayer from a Christian pastor, along with five other Hmong pastors who were attending a training, according to a report by Christian Aid …
Vietnam ~ 2018
Visit Bac Ha market. Bac Ha is the largest Sunday market in the area as well as the most colorful one. Here we meet mostly Flower Hmong and then Phu La, Black Dao, Tay, Nung minorities. The market offers a variety of local products, which could not be …
Combat Aviation Advisors: A day in the Life
The idea of FID-A isn’t new, of course. CAA Air Commandos taught Thai pilots to fly AT-28 fighter-bombers, then in 1964-65 they taught Laotian Hmong tribesmen to fly the same aircraft.Veterans of the Vietnam War (and those who’ve read about it) …
Thai, Lao and Vietnamese food have a home at Spicy Noodle in Murrieta
More Lao dishes will continue to be added to the menu, and perhaps will include such things as Nam khao (rice balls with sour pork salad); oh lam stew (a vegetarian dish from the Hmong people which uses sakhan, a bitter root herb; and Khao sie pate — a …
Hobart Map
Scores of heirloom potato and apple varieties are offset by Asian vegetables of all descriptions cultivated by Hobart’s Hmong community from Vietnam’s north. String bags full and senses engaged, take a seat for a relaxing coffee or pedal-powered smoothie.
Bản in : Top ten tourist attractions in Vietnam seen by Touropia
Local mountain people, the Hmong, Giay, Dao, Tay, and Giay, grow rice on these paddy terraces, along with vegetables. 5. Phu Quoc Island Located in front of the Cambodia coast, Phu Quoc is the largest island in Vietnam. Phu Quoc is what Phuket would be if …
St. Paul mayoral candidates talk up issues, press for endorsements
He talked about his own family’s flight from Laos and of American involvement in the Vietnam war, and the Hmong tradition of struggling with a bad government in their native Laos. Thao would be the first Hmong mayor in St. Paul if elected. “My work on …
Attorney Kristy Yang Hopes to Become Wisconsin’s First Hmong-American Judge
As a young child growing up in a refugee camp in Thailand after the Vietnam War, Kashoua “Kristy” Yang only knew two words of English. They were “Pepsi, please.” “In the refugee camp in Thailand, if we were lucky enough, we’d have a few sips of Pepsi …
State Assembly honors Aviation Heritage Center in Sheboygan Falls
and a T-28 aircraft used to train Hmong pilots in Thailand in support of U.S. operations in the “Secret War” in Laos during the Vietnam War. The Aviation Heritage Center of Wisconsin hosts thousands of visitors annually from across the state …
What really went on in Laos
Eisenhower’s briefings ensured that Kennedy continued the secret CIA training and arming of Hmong tribesmen. With no oversight and with anti-war activists focusing on Vietnam, the unknown war escalated to include bombing raids, over 300 sorties per day …
Detroit’s Immigrant Workers
“Since that time, we have added, through war and displacement, Hmong, Cambodian and Vietnamese, Chaldeans, Syrians, Yemeni, and many more. …Foreign-born workers and their families helped swell Detroit’s population to nearly 2 million people at its …
A Hmong-Lao veterans day called to recognize efforts in ‘Secret War’
For the more than 66,000 Hmong living in Minnesota, May 14 is a day of remembrance, reflection, mourning and celebration. On May 14, 1975, Laotian military base Long Tieng fell to the North Vietnamese, leaving the Hmong and Lao people, who had called that …
Rep. Katsma, Rep. Vorpagel: State Assembly honors Aviation Heritage Center of Wisconsin
and a T-28 aircraft used to train Hmong pilots in Thailand in support of U.S. operations in the “Secret War” in Laos during the Vietnam War. The Aviation Heritage Center of Wisconsin hosts thousands of visitors annually from across the state …
These Vietnamese Girls Were Abducted and Sold in China. One Daring Group of Do-Gooders Kidnapped Them Back.
The Black Hmong and Red Dzao people who predominate here are no exception; Sapa’s tourism explosion has engendered a new normal of interacting with outsiders, leaving minorities perhaps even more exposed. I caught wind of what was happening in Sapa in …
Book review: A Great Place to Have a War, by Joshua Kurlantzick
Eisenhower’s briefings ensured that Kennedy continued the secret CIA training and arming of Van Pao’s Hmong tribesmen without ever bringing the policy to Congress for approval. With no oversight and with anti-war activists focusing on Vietnam …
