Lao Studies News Today

Iu Mien American leaders and entrepreneurs celebrate Lunar New Year

The exhibit focuses on two ethnic Laotian groups, Lao and Iu Mien.

RICHMOND, Calif. — After people 65 and older became eligible for COVID-19 vaccinations, Torm Normpraseurt picked up the phone and called one Laotian immigrant after another — about a dozen in all. Here’s how to make an appointment, he told them in Lao. Someone will find you a ride, and volunteers fluent in both Lao and English will be by your side when you get your shot, he assured them. Phones were also ringing in Laotian households across the Bay Area as an elaborate network lighted ...

AAP Staff MINNEAPOLIS (Dec. 12, 2020) — Sahtu Press announced the release of “Every Passing Minute,” the second book of poetry by award-winning Lao American poet Krysada Panusith Phounsiri. Krysada Panusith Phounsiri Krysada Phounsiri immigrated to the U.S. from Laos with his family at the age of 2. A San Diego based artist, he began writing poetry at age 11, but fell in love with poetry when he attended UC Berkeley, graduating with a Physics and Astrophysics double major.  A champion b-...