Hmong News – Vietnam
State Declassifies Documents on “Legendary Tony Po” and his “Secret Army”
According to John Prados’s must-read biography of Po for Unredacted, Po went to Laos in March 1961 to train the Hmong to fight against the Vietnamese Communists. Hating paperwork and preferring the field, Po was content that a younger officer …
Karen People in Twin Cities Seek to Take Driver’s License Test in Their Own Language
“You can create for Vietnamese, Somali or Hmong, why not Karen?” We first talked to DPS spokesman Bruce Gordon by phone in July. He told us the DPS didn’t offer the driver’s permit in Karen. We continued to ask for an interview to find out why not.
RBC bank bridges language barriers with new in-branch video interpretation app
Available now, this on-demand video service currently offers 13 languages (including Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Polish, Somali, Arabic, Haitian Creole, Portuguese, Vietnamese, Hmong, Nepali, Russian, and American Sign Language) with more to follow.
More Than Just Hunting Ghosts: Mainstream Disciplines Every Researcher Should Be Familiar With
When Saigon fell in 1974, effectively ending the conflict in Vietnam, the Hmong people found themselves in a very dangerous situation. The Hmong, an ethic minority from the mountainous regions of Laos and Vietnam, were recruited by the French and American …
The Hmong Horseman
The mountains of Vietnam have sheltered the Hmong people within a rugged landscape that requires the aid of small, robust horses. Follow Toa, the head of a family clan, as he enters the anual race.
Gianforte condemns refugee resettlement as Congolese family arrives in Missoula
The average processing time is about three years. “We’ve admitted hundreds of thousands of refugees since the 1980s in the U.S. going back to the Hmong and Vietnamese,” she said. “These are the people feeling the violence, not perpetrating the violence.
Obama visit will ‘basically’ normalize relations with Laos
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest. The refugee population includes former residents of the Laotian lowlands as well as the Hmong, whose Vietnam War-era assistance for the CIA and U.S. Special Forces in the country’s mountainous regions made them …
Bicycle through recently opened Ha Giang (and meet the locals) on Vietnam tour
Cyclists will have an opportunity to interact with local hill tribes — there are 22 ethnic minorities in the region — and bike to the towns of Sapa, surrounded on all sides by mountains, and Dong Van, known for its traditional Hmong homes. Rides …
SPECIAL OFFERS IN INDEPENDENCE FESTIVAL IN MOC CHAU, VIETNAM – VIETNAM HOMESTAY
This is the occasion to organize Hmong cultural and artistic activities to show love to country. With ethnic Hmong, an independent New Year has become a significant festival for many years. In celebration of this significance, the people celebrate the …
Vietnamese nurse recognised for work saving newborns
Hồng started working in the rural district of Trạm Tấu in 1982, one of the country’s 62 most impoverished districts, serving a primarily ethnic minority Hmong population. Poor roads, local customs, and language barriers have impeded access to and …
Syrian Fighters To Be Resettled in The USA
In the Vietnam War, the American government used a local tribe to fight for USA. They were a close-knit mountain tribe called Hmong. They were trained and given weapons. They were sent on specific missions to kill both North Vietnamese troops …
Tribes across the world
The school does allow female visitors though. My visit to the Sapa region of northern Vietnam was memorable mainly because of the strong Hmong women I met along the way. Although Hmong culture is patrilineal — the husband’s family makes all major …
Family history plays role in ‘Miss Saigon’
“In the beginning, (directors Teresa Schmidt and Andrea Hearden) asked us to bring in a fact about the Vietnam War, and so my fact was about the Hmong people who are involved in this. The Americans trained the Hmong people to fight in the rainforest …
Hanoi: Beyond the bikes
Here he roasts his own coffee, makes his own furniture, cooks his own food, sells the handiwork of the Hmong tribes and helps the local community, ably assisted by his troupe of local workers. We follow him upstairs to a nook in the attic, where throws …
Secretary of State expands Minnesota voter resources, adds ten new languages
The website, mnvotes.org, is dedicated to providing Minnesotans with important voter information. The new languages included are Amharic, Chinese, Hmong, Khmer, Lao, Oromo, Russian, Somali, Spanish and Vietnamese. Materials in the Karen language will be …
Secretary of State expands Minnesota voter resources, adds 10 new languages
The new languages included are Amharic, Chinese, Hmong, Khmer, Lao, Oromo, Russian, Somali, Spanish and Vietnamese. Materials in the Karen language will be added before the general election on Nov. 8. “As the son of an immigrant, I know how important it …
New court challenge to affirmative action involves Asian-American Harvard student
The 2010 census question on race included check boxes for six Asian groups – Asian Indian, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese – along with a box for “Other Asian,” with a prompt for detailed responses such as “Hmong, Laotian …
Erdogan demand that US extradite cleric could strain ties
But the U.S. has also moved on exiles that were conspiring against the governments in their homelands. Gen. Vang Pao, a Hmong military leader and major American ally during the Vietnam War, was arrested in 2007 for plotting to overthrow the Communist …
