Write Blog       Polls       User Directory       Site Activity       Birthdays       Music Videos       Recent Posts       User Status Updates

Sponsor

User login

Navigation

's points

Points are visible to logged in users only

User Created Poll

how are you like while you're with you're significant other's family?
shy
36%
dislike them
7%
comfortable
29%
talkative
29%
simply just stay away
0%
other/s
0%
Total votes: 14

Who's online

There are currently 0 users and 0 guests online.

Hmong News

Syndicate content Hmong OR Hmoob - Google News
Google News
Updated: 18 weeks 6 days ago

A-POP! Babies having babies? Say it isn't so, Brenda! - Northwest Asian Weekly

September 15, 2011 - 2:45pm

A-POP! Babies having babies? Say it isn't so, Brenda!
Northwest Asian Weekly
Brenda Song, an Asian American actress of Hmong and Thai heritage, announced in August that she is pregnant. Song is best known for starring in several works associated with the Disney Channel, as well as for a small role in “The Social Network,” a ...

Hmong: Commission Condemn Vietnam's Omission From Blacklist - UNPO

September 15, 2011 - 9:54am

UNPO

Hmong: Commission Condemn Vietnam's Omission From Blacklist
UNPO
The US Commission on International Religious Freedom has condemned the omission of Vietnam from the new US CPC Blacklist following Hanoi's recent crackdown on religious expression. The US State Department on Tuesday [13 September 2011] maintained China ...

and more »

Longer Looks: A Health Care Arms Race Video; The HPV Debate - Kaiser Health News

September 15, 2011 - 6:50am

Longer Looks: A Health Care Arms Race Video; The HPV Debate
Kaiser Health News
Something was killing Hmong men in their sleep, and no one could figure out what it was. There was no obvious cause of death. None of them had been sick, physically. The men weren't clustered all that tightly, geographically speaking. ...

Hmong church members work donated land - Appleton Post Crescent

September 15, 2011 - 5:28am

Hmong church members work donated land
Appleton Post Crescent
Less than a month ago, however, the 20-acre garden was overflowing with a bountiful harvest, thanks to a landowner's generosity, a good growing season and the daily caretaking of Hmong families from a nearby church. "It's been very fruitful," said the ...

and more »

Hmong refugee feels 'blessed' his teacher gave him the 'American experience' - Wausau Daily Herald

September 15, 2011 - 2:30am

Hmong refugee feels 'blessed' his teacher gave him the 'American experience'
Wausau Daily Herald
Yang, only 7 years old at the time he and his family arrived in Wisconsin, was among nearly 40000 Hmong who settled in Wisconsin in the 1980s and 1990s. He didn't speak a word of English when the Yang family came to Wausau in 1988. ...

and more »

Sharing the bounty - Appleton Post Crescent

September 15, 2011 - 2:24am

Sharing the bounty
Appleton Post Crescent
Less than a month ago, however, the 20-acre garden was overflowing with a bountiful harvest, thanks to a landowner's generosity, a good growing season and the daily caretaking of Hmong families from a nearby church. "It's been very fruitful," said the ...

Bobbie Wilson: Billings has experience for seat in Assembly - La Crosse Tribune

September 14, 2011 - 10:21pm

Bobbie Wilson: Billings has experience for seat in Assembly
La Crosse Tribune
I got to know Billings when she was employed by The Friendship Program, a school for Hmong refugees and their preschool children. As a teacher in the adult program, she both taught the adult students and directed the volunteer tutors who worked with ...

NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES | North Minneapolis Hmong students save school bus ... - Twin Cities Planet

September 14, 2011 - 6:09pm

Twin Cities Planet

NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES | North Minneapolis Hmong students save school bus ...
Twin Cities Planet
This past week, about 80 North Minneapolis Hmong students boarded school buses to start their new school year in Hopkins and Wayzata schools. For most students, getting on school buses is a routine ritual repeated year ...

The Dark Side of the Placebo Effect: When Intense Belief Kills - The Atlantic

September 14, 2011 - 8:52am

The Atlantic

The Dark Side of the Placebo Effect: When Intense Belief Kills
The Atlantic
At the peak of the deaths in the early 1980s, the death rate from this mysterious problem among the Hmong ethnic group was equivalent to the top five natural causes of death for other American men in their age group. Something was killing Hmong men in ...

Ka Xiong - La Lettre de la Photographie

September 14, 2011 - 1:04am

Ka Xiong
La Lettre de la Photographie
I belong to the Hmong ethnic group, whose culture is based on the world of the spirits. When I was three or four I first heard the elders talk about them – stories to deter us from being disobedient. I could see the spirits clearly in my mind. ...

NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES | North Minneapolis Hmong students save school bus ... - Twin Cities Planet

September 13, 2011 - 7:12pm

NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES | North Minneapolis Hmong students save school bus ...
Twin Cities Planet
This past week, about 80 North Minneapolis Hmong students boarded school buses to start their new school year in Hopkins and Wayzata schools. For most students, getting on school buses is a routine ritual repeated year ...

Burgers bait event interest - The Orion

September 13, 2011 - 6:13pm

Burgers bait event interest
The Orion
Senior Graphic Design major, Alex LuQuin (right), learns about different clubs on campus such as the Hmong Student Associaton at Grillin' on the Grass. Students gather to learn about clubs and get a free Bear Burger at Grillin' on the Grass. ...

Students honored for Hmong story book - Wausau Daily Herald

September 12, 2011 - 7:59am

Students honored for Hmong story book
Wausau Daily Herald
The magazine Skipping Stones is awarding DC Everest High School students who worked on “Zaj Lus: A Bilingual Hmong Story Book” with 2011 Skipping Stones Youth Honor Awards. “Zaj Lus” is a bilingual story book that helps pass along Hmong folk tales to ...

and more »

The migrant malady - Scienceline

September 12, 2011 - 6:41am

The migrant malady
Scienceline
Every year, hundreds of thousands of displaced Tanzanian, Bhutanese, Iraqi, Hmong and Burmese families enter America, unknowingly harboring this sleeping contagion. The federal health authorities and American physicians are all extremely concerned ...

A Firefighter Remembers - Radio Free Asia

September 9, 2011 - 5:23pm

A Firefighter Remembers
Radio Free Asia
One of the largest subsets of the Laotian-American community is the Hmong ethnic minority, a group which assisted in a 15-year CIA-sponsored secret war in Laos during the Vietnam War. The largest concentrations of Hmong in America are based in ...

The assassinin winter - Fernandina Beach News-Leader

September 8, 2011 - 2:24pm

The assassinin winter
Fernandina Beach News-Leader
Originally home to peaceful Hmong villagers, said Elliott, the area had since become a source of increased Pathet Lao and Viet Cong activity. A communist regime, the Pathet Lao represented the Laotian equivalent to the VC. A Pathet Lao officer and two ...

Hmong police officer assigned to North Minneapolis - Twin Cities Planet

September 8, 2011 - 4:47am

Twin Cities Planet

Hmong police officer assigned to North Minneapolis
Twin Cities Planet
Officer Kou Vang told a roomful of young Hmong soccer players that he grew up wanting to be a police officer and remembers watching Wonder Woman and Starsky & Hutch on TV. He said in everything he's done in his almost ...

Our View: We support local schools and reforms - Wausau Daily Herald

September 7, 2011 - 2:39am

Our View: We support local schools and reforms
Wausau Daily Herald
Most local schools have long been accustomed to working with Hmong speakers, but lately they've seen growing numbers of Hispanic students, as well as others speaking Russian, Arabic, Hindi and other languages. That's a trend we can expect to see ...

and more »

NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES | North Minneapolis Hmong families celebrate new Hmong ... - Twin Cities Planet

September 6, 2011 - 12:52pm

Twin Cities Planet

NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES | North Minneapolis Hmong families celebrate new Hmong ...
Twin Cities Planet
On August 31, 25 North Minneapolis Hmong soccer players came to Dessert with Don Samuels to meet and celebrate their new 4th precinct outreach officer. Kou Vang. For three years, North Minneapolis Hmong families have ...

Hmong youth leaders hold LRT forum - Twin Cities Planet

September 6, 2011 - 12:52pm

Hmong youth leaders hold LRT forum
Twin Cities Planet
On Sunday August 14, eight Hmong youth leaders from TakeAction Minnesota's Hmong Organizing Program held a community forum at Rondo Outreach Library. The forum was held for the Hmong community to come together and ...