May 15, 2008 | Lowell, MA The 1970s, Tem Chea remembers, were a time of fear, running, and crowded refugee camps. The Cambodian refugee and his family moved four times from camp to camp while escaping the horrors of the Khmer Rouge regime that claimed about 1 million lives. …
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Book recounts struggles of Asian refugees
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Japanese-American students get UW degrees decades after internment
http://asiansinamerica.typepad.com/asians_in_america_news/2008/05/japanese-amer-1.htmlMay 14, 2008 | Seattle, WA The people getting bachelor's degrees this Sunday at the University of Washington will look a lot older than the usual college graduate. That's because their education was interrupted by World War II. Read the complete article at http://www.king5.com…
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Pentagon withdraws controversial Guantanamo Bay Gen Hood from Pak posting
http://asiansinamerica.typepad.com/asians_in_america_news/2008/05/pentagon-withdr.htmlMay 9, 2008 | Washington, DC The Bush administration is learnt to have withdrawn the appointment of Maj. Gen. Jay W. Hood as a senior American officer based in Pakistan to fight Al Qaeda and the Taliban in tribal areas, reflecting the widening shadow that the military prison at Guantanamo Bay was still casting over American foreign policy. …
