Current location:sport >>
Immigrant's $1.3B Powerball win spotlights the Iu Mien community
sport5People have gathered around
IntroductionSALEM, Ore. (AP) — Cheng “Charlie” Saephan wore a broad smile and a bright blue sash emblazoned with ...
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Cheng “Charlie” Saephan wore a broad smile and a bright blue sash emblazoned with the words “Iu-Mien USA” as he hoisted an oversized check for $1.3 billion above his head.
The 46-year-old immigrant’s luck in winning an enormous Powerball jackpot in Oregon earlier this month — a lump sum payment of $422 million after taxes, which he and his wife will split with a friend — has changed his life. It also raised awareness about Iu Mien people, a southeast Asian ethnic group with origins in China, many of whose members fled from Laos to Thailand and then settled in the U.S. following the Vietnam War.
“I am born in Laos, but I am not Laotian,” Saephan told a news conference Monday at Oregon Lottery headquarters, where his identity as one of the jackpot’s winners was revealed. “I am Iu Mien.”
During the Vietnam War, the CIA and U.S. military recruited Iu Mien in neighboring Laos, many of them subsistence farmers, to engage in guerrilla warfare and to provide intelligence and surveillance to disrupt the Ho Chi Minh Trail that the North Vietnamese used to send troops and weapons through Laos and Cambodia into South Vietnam.
Tags:
Reprint:Friends are welcome to share on the Internet, but please indicate the source of the article when reprinting it.“Stellar Sphere news portal”。http://chile.downmusic.org/content-8b599429.html
Related articles
Kenyans in flood
sportNAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Rain-swollen water levels at two Kenyan hydroelectric dams are at “historic hi ...
【sport】
Read moreChinese cyberspace regulator cracks down on illegal online activities
sport(Global Times) 08:38, December 26, 2023The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) recently stepped ...
【sport】
Read moreChinese cities mobilize new technologies to spur improved development
sport(Xinhua) 16:16, December 31, 2023BEIJING, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) -- Chinese cities are mobilizing in diver ...
【sport】
Read more
Popular articles
- Chilling moment masked thug calmly prepares himself before stabbing a stranger with a 10
- Development of Xinjiang impresses Pakistani media and think tank representatives
- New Year wishes from quake
- Earthquake leaves 13 dead in China's Qinghai
- Audit finds Wisconsin Capitol Police emergency response times up, calls for better tracking
- Over 1,900 criminal rings busted as China intensifies crackdown on gang crimes
Latest articles
Ahead of the Paris Olympics, police clear a migrant camp near City Hall
Tottenham and Man United advance to Women's FA Cup final in England
Hannah Elizabeth puts on a VERY busty display in a white tweed co
Over 1,900 criminal rings busted as China intensifies crackdown on gang crimes
Dortmund's injury concerns ease before facing PSG in Champions League semifinal
Former CSIC chairman sentenced to 13 years in jail for bribery, abuse of power
LINKS
- Forex settlement data showcases upbeat prospect of yuan assets
- China's rural policy bank to increase financial support for rural revitalization
- China's rural policy bank to increase financial support for rural revitalization
- China has 3,617 listed manufacturing companies by January
- DeSmith stops 32 shots and Canucks sweep season series with 3
- Shota Imanaga continues strong start to major league career as Cubs top Mariners 4
- China's express delivery sector sees double
- Bank of Japan ends negative interest rates in historic policy overhaul
- China trade fair Indonesia kicks off in Jakarta
- Consumption upgrade boosts new productive forces