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Too much testing MN students face high-stakes GRAD tests and MCA II tests this week. For the first time, high school graduation hinges on the 11th grade math GRAD test, and that means failure to graduate for many, unless the law is changed.MORE »
Thai New Year
The Thai New Year (Thai: Songkran) is celebrated every year on April 13 to April 15. It is also celebrated in Laos (called Songkan in Lao), Cambodia, Myanmar (Burma where it is called Thingyan), and by ethnic Dai in Yunnan, China.MORE »
Minnesota Hmong protest against BK "Whopper Virgin" campaign
Minnesotan Seng Vang is deeply offended by Burger King's portrayal of Hmong people in its "Whopper Virgin" campaign. The offensive segment of the campaign featured Hmong people in Northern Thailand "simply as "tribesmen" who "don't even have a word for burger," Seng Vang wrote in a protest letter to Burger King. MORE »
The lost children of Laos: Advocating for liberation of detained Hmong youth
Worn fabrics and remnants of personal belongings hang from the ceiling bars, impeding the flow of sunshine through tiny windows. The mixed, stagnating stench of food, urine, human waste, and unwashed bodies permeates the air of the cramped living space where people have to eat, toilet, and sleep.MORE »
The Hmong, Thailand and greed
Thailand has held 149 Hmong people, including men, women, and ninety children in a two-room cell for the past nine months with no access to the outside. Their only access to drinking, cooking, and bathing water is a single stall toilet. Having done nothing wrong, the Hmong have been designated as political refugees, a status that has been certified by the United Nations.MORE »
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