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Last updated: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 - 05:51
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 Some people call it insanity, some people call it an active imagination but Patch Xiong calls it fate. On a night when he was going to commit suicide he was saved by a woman. | |
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 This Year In Review: The biggest stories from the Hmong Community in 2009. Part 2. | |
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.jpg&Size=70) This Year In Review: The biggest stories from the Hmong Community in 2009. | |
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 “Free t-shirt and a free meal!” These are the words only college students would do anything for, and they did. After a discussion on Facebook, over 30 college students agreed to take on Saigon’s 10lb Pho Challenge together.
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 A Fallen American Hero, Kham Xiong Part 2 | |
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He was a good son and a good soldier. The eldest son from a large family, Kham Xiong would call his parents nearly every evening to check on his family and to give updates on his impending deployment to Afghanistan. | |
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 Typhoon FC performed the unthinkable this year by repeating as July 4th
Men’s Soccer champions. How does a team whose players are spread
throughout the country come together in just one day and win this
prestigious tournament? We sat down with team founder David Xiong to
ask these important questions: | |
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 Proudly wearing their traditional Hmong costumes, players and their parents from St. Paul’s United Express attended the Shwans’s USA Cup opening ceremonies with great awe.
They were going to enter one of the largest soccer tournaments in the world with over 13,000 participants and 841 teams coming from all over the world to converge in the National Sports Center in Blaine, MN during the week of July 17-25.
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.jpg&Size=70) Inside their narrow, dimly lit trailer home, Ka Ge and May Xiong Kong
courteously greet visitors and family members who have come to support
the Kong family as they take on the heavy-hearted task of preparing for
the funerals of their three sons. | |
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 Txhia txhia xyoo Hmoob nyob lwm lub tebchaws thiab nyob Amelikas kub
siab lug tuaj koom peb Hmoob Minnesota lub koobtsheej July 4 yam zoo
siab hlo luag ntxhwb ntxhi txhia tus. Lub koom haum Hmoob, Lao Family
Inc., yog lub uas tsa lub koobtsheej no txhia xyoo. | |
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 With the score tied at 1-1 midway through the second-half, the soccer
match between “International” and “Vipers” was a tightly fought
struggle that included much physical play.
A team comprised of top-level players representing a variety of
different nationalities, “International’s” participation in the July
4th soccer tournament was made possible this year after a controversial
decision was made by Lao Family, the host of the July 4th Sports
Festival, to begin including teams of all nationalities in the soccer
competition. | |
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 Played out like a real-life episode of CSI or Law & Order, the Jason Andersen Wrongful Death Trial (aka “The Fong Lee Trial”) involved everything from planted gun allegations to forensic video evidence to courtroom dramatics suitable for any television crime show. | |
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