After escaping Vietnam, Am Nguyen, 70, lived in Philippine refugee camps, struggling for eight months, before resettling in California in 1981. She had given birth to her fourth child while housed in the Palawan Island barracks, clinging to hope that officials would allow her family passage to the U.S. Source: “Los Angeles” – Google News
Blog: Sister Wendy Beckett, celebrity TV art historian, dies at 88
When she was a child, her family moved to Edinburgh, Scotland, where her father attended medical school before they returned to South Africa. At 16, she entered the Sisters of Notre Dame in England and began religious life as Sister Michael. Later, as an act of humility, she reclaimed her given name. She didn’t like […]
Blog: Sister Wendy Beckett, TV art historian, dies at 88
When she was a child, her family moved to Edinburgh, Scotland, where her father attended medical school before they returned to South Africa. At 16, she entered the Sisters of Notre Dame in England and began religious life as Sister Michael. Later, as an act of humility, she reclaimed her given name. She didn’t like […]
Blog: Chinese rights lawyer fires his own state-appointed lawyer in a dramatic court appearance
Dahlin, who is also the co-founder of the human rights advocacy group Safeguard Defenders, issued a statement saying: “The very mission of China Action was to strengthen enforcement of China’s laws, the very opposite of claims that it was in any way or form working to violate or break Chinese law. There is no legal […]
Blog: North and South Korea break ground on linked railway despite sanctions
Even if the project were to get past political opposition, there’s also the matter of cost: updating more than 3,000 miles of tracks in North Korea, which Kim Jong Un admitted were in an “embarrassing” state, is expected to run in the hundreds of millions of dollars at minimum. South Korean officials have said they […]
Blog: Five takeaways from the Lakers’ 127-101 win over the Warriors
Tuesday night’s game qualified as the former. The Warriors are certainly not the dominant force right now that they’ve been in past years — emphasis on the “right now.” This doesn’t mean they won’t figure it out. It doesn’t mean they have some fatal flaw. They might. But this early in the season it’s hard […]