(1 May 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Salem, Oregon – 29 April 2024
1. Lottery winner Cheng “Charlie” Saephan
2. STILL of lottery winner Cheng “Charlie” Saephan
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Portland, Oregon – 1 May 2024
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Claire Rush, The Associated Press:
"The winner of a massive $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot is an immigrant from Laos who has cancer. Cheng “Charlie” Saephan lives here in Portland, Oregon, and at a news conference held by the Oregon Lottery announcing his win. He said he’d split the money with his wife and with a friend who pitched in money to help buy a batch of tickets. Saephan said he’s had cancer for eight years and had his latest chemotherapy treatment just last week. But the win hasn’t just changed his life. It’s also drawing attention to the Iu Mien people."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Gresham, Oregon – 30 April 2024
4. Various of Iu Mien Buddhist temple
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Portland, Oregon – 1 May 2024
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Claire Rush, The Associated Press:
"At the news conference announcing his win, Saephan wore a sash identifying himself as Iu Mien, a Southeast Asian ethnic group with origins in China. During the Vietnam War, the CIA and U.S. military recruited Iu Mien people in neighboring Laos to engage in guerrilla warfare and provide surveillance and intelligence. After the conflict, as well as the Laotian Civil War, thousands fled Laos, fearing reprisals."
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6. Various of members of the Royal Laotian Army, which had Iu Mien members, in war
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Portland, Oregon – 30 April 2024
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Claire Rush, The Associated Press:
"Tens of thousands of Iu Mien people now live in the US. They’ve started businesses, opened restaurants. There are Iu Mien Buddhist temples and Iu Mien Christian churches."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Troutdale, Oregon – 30 April 2024
8. Various of restaurant
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Cayle Tern, president of the Iu Mien Association of Oregon:
"For me, it’s more than just about the money. I think it brought on, attention to our community. "
10. Staffer prepping food
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Cayle Tern, president of the Iu Mien Association of Oregon:
"Our community, the Iu Mien community, we we’ve been here since the late 70s. But very little is known of us."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Gresham, Oregon – 30 April 2024
12. Iu Mien Buddhist temple
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Troutdale, Oregon – 30 April 2024
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Cayle Tern, president of the Iu Mien Association of Oregon:
"I know how hard they work. I know how challenging it is. So I know the struggles that their families. remember their families went through, just like what we went through. You know, taking their and finding odd jobs to make it through. And so, yeah, I can’t find, you know, in anybody else more deserving than them to get it to now, they get to live a life where they, can provide for their families."
Gresham, Oregon – 30 April 2024
14. Wide of monk leaving temple
STORYLINE:
An immigrant from Laos who has been battling cancer won an enormous $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot in Oregon earlier this month.
But Cheng “Charlie” Saephan’s luck hasn’t just changed his life — it’s also drawn attention to Iu Mien, a southeast Asian ethnic group with origins in China, many of whose members fled from Laos to Thailand and then settled in the U.S. following the Vietnam War.
During a news conference Monday introducing him as one of the jackpot winners, Saephan wore a sash identifying himself as Iu Mien.
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