Hmong News – Vietnam
The CIA in Laos changed the way America wages war
The CIA was starting to arm Hmong hill tribe fighters to resist Vietnamese-led communist forces, but what began as a low-budget, guerrilla training mission morphed into a decade-long U.S. bombing campaign bigger than that unleashed on Japan and Germany in …
If Trump Really Knew the Somalis of Minnesota, He Would Rethink His Cruel Ban on Refugees
Far from it: Lutheran and Catholic church groups have helped resettle many of the Somalis, just as in earlier decades they did so for Hmong and Vietnamese refugees. These churches’ role is one of the most luminous expressions of Minnesota’s progressive …
Before Asian Americans could be ‘woke,’ they had to shed the label ‘Oriental’
and Hmong, Cambodian and Vietnamese refugees, among others. Ishizuka said it often feels as if activists need to retell the story of the Asian American movement to every new generation of immigrants and their children. On opening night, Marion Wong …
Hmong: New Book Addresses US Legacy in Laos, Cambodia, and South Vietnam
The following article was published by Asian Review of Books: From 1961 to 1975, the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) coordinated a proxy war in Laos as a part of America’s larger effort to prevent communism from overrunning all of Southeast Asia.
Review: The CIA in Laos changed the way America wages war
The CIA was starting to arm Hmong hill tribe fighters to resist Vietnamese-led communist forces, but what began as a low-budget, guerrilla training mission morphed into a decade-long U.S. bombing campaign bigger than that unleashed on Japan and Germany in …
TPT looks for Vietnam film project funding
It is to also include: a documentary on the Hmong population’s involvement in “The Secret War;” theatrical performances of veteran stories; and a digital story wall – personal videos, photos and narrative shared by Minnesotans. The project’s …
New book exposes inner workings of the US’ ‘secret war’ in Laos
The area was a major theatre in the 1964-1973 secret war between the US and Hmong against the Pathet Lao and Vietnamese Communists. On average, a planeload of bombs was dropped every 8 minutes, 24 hours a day for nine years. Up to 30% of the bombs did not …
Arts notes: Lunar New Year celebration set
The event is free. Showcasing Eastern culture will be the local Hmong dance group Nkauj Hmoob Ntsias Lias, the Vietnamese hip-hop duo Beast Street, a traditional lion dance by Vovinam Chicago and the Japanese drumming/folk dance group Anaguma Eisa from the …
International food, dancing at UW-BC
followed by many Eastern cultures, will also feature tastes from various cultures such as China, Korea, Vietnam, Azerbaijan and Somalia. There will be Korean and Hmong games, as well as calligraphy and writing from various cultures and Somali group dancing.
America’s secret war in Laos
A CIA operation then began to train and fight alongside an army taken mostly from the Hmong ethnic minority against the Pathet Lao—translated as “Lao Nation”—who were backed by North Vietnam. Hitting the Pathet Lao in the north and on the Ho Chi …
King County residents: Flood preparedness information now available in 21 languages
An estimated 170 languages are spoken in King County, and the “Be Flood Ready” brochure has been translated into: Spanish, Vietnamese, Russian, Punjabi, Tagalog, Cambodian, Oromo, Hmong, Somali, Chinese, Laotian, Japanese, Hindi, French, Korean …
Khmer Krom: Confiscation of Indigenous Sacred Land in Vietnam
or the Christian Hmong groups. Indigenous people of the world deserves to have their rights and land be respected. Water, and Earth, all things holy to them, must be allowed their rights to stewardship. When we stand together as a people to protect the …
NBA Sends Out Animated Chinese New Year Greeting
They will be released through February 11. Some have criticized the NBA for not expanding the campaign to Lunar New Year which would of course include the Korean, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Hmong and Thai communities, among others. During the campaign …
NBA Sends Out Animated Chinese New Year Greeting
They will be released through February 11. Some have criticized the NBA for not expanding the campaign to Lunar New Year which would of course include the Korean, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Hmong and Thai communities, among others. During the campaign …
A few thoughts occasioned by seeing Vietnam and Laos
I have never seen such abject poverty as that I observed in a Hmong village just outside of Luang Prabang. The Hmong live in primitive wooden shacks built on clay soil that turns into slick, gooey mud when it rains. Through open doors we could see cooking …
Austin to get new Asian grocery store; Check out the city’s three ‘Chinatowns’
Hmong, Thai, Laotian, Vietnamese, Tagalog and other Indic, Asian or Pacific Island languages) one can map areas dense with Indian, Asian and Pacific Island immigrants. Our map, below, shows the 10 percent of Austin Census Tracts with the densest population …
Mandarin’s Problem of Character Amnesia
Mandarin isn’t even the most complex of the tonal languages – Cantonese is said to have 9, Hmong 8, and Vietnamese 6. For any tonal language, there’s often disagreement about how many tones speakers really recognise and the number varies according …
Meet the new faces of farming
Language interpretation is available in Spanish, Hmong, Karen, Bhutanese, Vietnamese and Somali. To register, visit 2017imfc.eventbrite.com. More about Minnesota Food Association is at mnfoodassociation.org.
