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Hmong Today is a biweekly journal of news and culture for the Hmong community.

edited by Wameng Moua
email hmongtoday@yahoo.com
PO Box 4365, St. Paul, MN 55104
Phone: 651-489-0021 Fax: 651-489-0054

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The other side of the story: Life and death of "Ped" Phantavong

By Wameng Moua, Hmong Today

By all accounts, Anousone “Ped” Phantavong was on the right track in life. Separated from his family when they fled war-torn Laos, young Ped remained in the old country as an obligation to look after his elderly grandfather.MORE »

Will the Hmong Sports Festival happen in 2011?

By Wameng Moua, Hmong Today

With less than a month until July 4th, the question needs to be asked, “Will the Hmong Sports Festival happen this year?”

There are no fliers posted. The website is “Under Construction”. And when you call the front desk of Lao Family in St. Paul—the event’s organizer for the last 30 years--the answer is consistently the same:
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General Vang Pao legacy

By Wameng Moua, Hmong Today

His body is riddled with bullet scars suffered from his many years of warfare. Having survived through multiple assassination attempts, airplane crashes and even a carpet bombing, many observers make the claim that this man may have been divinely indestructible.
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General Vang Pao dies, remembered in candlelight vigil in St. Paul

By Wameng Moua, Hmong Today

Yet another piece of the Vietnam War legacy has gone to rest. After a short battle with pneumonia, Gen. Vang Pao, the leader of the Hmong people, has died at the age of 81 at a hospital in the Fresno, CA area on January 6.
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Mysteries remain in Jason Yang's death

By Wameng Moua, Hmong Today

UPDATED 11/24/2010—Standing atop the I-394 bridge which leads to Ramp C in downtown Minneapolis, one thing is chillingly obvious about this 70-foot drop: If you jump over the concrete barrier, you will die.  MORE »

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