Current location:Culture Canvas news portal > entertainment
Immigrant's $1.3B Powerball win spotlights the Iu Mien community
Culture Canvas news portal2024-05-21 22:03:37【entertainment】6People 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.
Address of this article:http://france.liveandunplugged.org/content-9f799248.html
Very good!(54963)
Related articles
- Xander Schauffele gets validation and records with one memorable putt at PGA Championship
- German council approves a revised plan by Tesla to expand its plant near Berlin
- Workers at 2 Mercedes plants in Alabama are voting against joining a union early in the vote count
- Punxsutawney Phil and Phyllis's baby names revealed
- Verona confirms Serie A status for another year after beating Salernitana
- I'm 98 and still work 32 hours a week
- PGA rainstorm could help Valhalla bite back after Schauffele's record start
- Zverev produces a comeback win over Tabilo to earn a spot in the Italian Open final
- Joe Rogan's 'brain
- Subway commuters in Buenos Aires see fares spike by 360% as part of austerity campaign in Argentina
Popular articles
Recommended
Lafrenière continuing his breakthrough season as a solid contributor for Rangers in NHL playoffs
What to expect in Kentucky's primaries
Israeli military finds bodies of 3 hostages in Gaza, including Shani Louk
John Daly withdraws from the PGA Championship with a thumb injury
Here comes the char
Harrison Butker gets slammed by ex
Paul Schrader felt death closing in, so he made 'Oh, Canada'
Scottie Scheffler: What to know about his PGA Championship arrest
Links
- Highlights of Beijing 2022 Paralymic Torch Relay and Flame Lighting Ceremony
- People enjoy Labor Day holiday across China
- 3D printed storage box to further propel China's lunar mission
- Construction of mainland
- Public satisfaction increases on Chinse delivery rates
- Xi Focus: Xi Urges Jiangsu to Take Lead in Advancing Chinese Modernization
- Orders surge at China's small commodity hub as Paris Olympics approaches
- Highlights of semifinals at BWF Korea Open Badminton Championships 2022
- A glimpse of begonia flowers in the Palace Museum
- Xi Replies to Letter from Overseas Students at Nanjing Audit University