Word: trinhs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...emphasis is on education. "When they have good knowledge, they make good money," explains Vong Ly, a Hmong tribesman from Laos who now lives in Banning, Calif., with seven of his nine children, ages eight to 17. Medicine, law, engineering, business and computer science are the favored fields. Le Trinh, a Vietnamese-born Chinese who arrived in Houston five years ago, will enter Texas A&M in the fall to study engineering. "It's not my favorite subject," she admits. "I love teaching, but that pays...
Nuong Van Trinh Martinez...
Around the pontoon, boats chug and cruise?police boats, water taxis, sampans piloted by women in straw hats, ferries, tugs, dredges, schooners. Freighters with exotic names lie at anchor. In the background, the office buildings of Hong Kong Island stand pressed against Victoria Peak. Trinh Thi Nuong, 8, gazes at the city in open wonder. She is told that she looks lovely...
...remains of tillers that were made with welded pipes. Only a few boats rest in Gin Drinker's Bay now, smoldering near the scavenging dogs. There were hundreds here once?boats that packed people in holds that were intended for fish. The boats are ruins. For the priest, Trinh and for tens of thousands to date, all that is left of Viet Nam are these boats...
Learning English is the Trinh family's priority. The four teen-agers all attend public school in Brooklyn. They still feel estranged. Only one American girl in Ditmas Junior High School has tried to make friends with So Huong, for example. Says the ninth-grader: "I don't know how to talk to anyone yet, and I don't know how to do my homework." After school or work, the whole family spends long hours poring over their copy of Access to English as a Second Language...