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/PRNewswire/ -- Many deaf children in Laos are unable to attend school due to discrimination, shortage of qualified teachers trained in deaf education or sign ...

Bethany Clarke (left) and poison victim Simone White (right), from Orpington in south-east London, were on a night out in Laos when six shots resulted in tragedy.

The Hmong diaspora to Minnesota started nearly 50 years ago with one man: Leng Wong. He fled his home of Laos, arriving at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, in the bitter cold, on Feb. 7, 1976.

Simone White, 28, was one of six tourists who died after a mass methanol poisoning at a hostel bar in Vang Vieng, Laos, last November.