Vang Pao (born ca. 1931) is a former Major General in the Royal Lao Army. He is an ethnic Hmong and a leader of the Hmong American community in the United States. Wikipedia
VIDEO : Watch The Report Vang Pao Elementary School will be built in the Linden Park neighborhood, which is between Midtown and Valley View Road on Madison's far West Side. www.channel3000.com/education/11608253/detail.html
Many of the parents said that they were not asking the board to dump the name Vang Pao, but only to reconsider it. www.channel3000.com/news/13274145/detail.html
The issue is getting an additional airing because the man in whose honor the new school would be named, Vang Pao, is now in custody after a raid near Fresno, Calif. Pao is a former general and icon to some in the Hmong community. www.channel3000.com/news/13453638/detail.html
Ten people, including a former general in the Laotian army, were arrested and charged in the United States with an alleged plot to overthrow the Laotian government. www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/06/04/laos.arrests/index.html
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Vang Pao. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vang_Pao
I have lived in Luang Prabang and worked in tourism here for several years now. The whole Vang Pao incident has scared the bejeezus out of the Lao government. Just after news of this broke in June, all of us heads of tourism bodies (I was the only weste rspas.anu.edu.au/rmap/newmandala/2007/09/28/vang-pao-afte...
Vang Pao came to power in 1960 when as a soldier's soldier he was courted by the U.S. Government to halt the spread of communism. The U.S. , whether real or imaginary, feared that communism was about to dominate the world and Laos would play a key role i www.hmongtoday.com/displaynews.asp?ID=2457
