Your current location:HOME >world >Immigrant's $1.3B Powerball win spotlights the Iu Mien community 正文
TIME:2024-05-22 02:19:32 Source: Internet compilationEdit:world
SALEM, 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.
I was 'brokefished' by my friend for £4002024-05-22 01:32
Indianapolis official La Keisha Jackson to fill role of late state Sen. Jean Breaux2024-05-22 01:31
Ed Westwick puts on a dapper display as he steps out with stunning fiancée Amy Jackson for star2024-05-22 00:59
Censors block blogger after caller asks 'Is Xi Jinping a dictator?' — Radio Free Asia2024-05-22 00:51
Israeli army says it kills over 130 militants in E. Rafah2024-05-22 00:28
Israel's long2024-05-22 00:17
Would you like a cicada salad? The monstrous little noisemakers descend on a New Orleans menu2024-05-22 00:15
Emiliano Martinez is shown TWO yellow cards but little2024-05-22 00:11
US overdose deaths dropped in 2023, the first time since 20182024-05-22 00:05
French athletes at Paris Olympics will receive better mental health protection2024-05-22 00:03
Jerry Seinfeld's stand2024-05-22 02:05
Karlie Kloss exudes confidence in a bold red midaxi dress as she attends star2024-05-22 01:06
Beyonce stuns in cream2024-05-22 00:36
Europe discards Arsenal and Liverpool shift focus to EPL title race2024-05-22 00:20
Digital technologies restore looks of 2,2002024-05-22 00:06
Would you like a cicada salad? The monstrous little noisemakers descend on a New Orleans menu2024-05-22 00:03
Jury selection for Trump's hush money trial could near a close2024-05-22 00:03
The iconic fantasy film that catapulted a 172024-05-21 23:58
'Constantly learning' Imanaga off to impressive start with the Chicago Cubs2024-05-21 23:44
Jeezy BACKTRACKS on request for full custody of daughter Monaco, two, amid Jeannie Mai divorce2024-05-21 23:36