Friday, 15 July 2011 15:01
Kristen Lynch
BORN in a refugee camp in Thailand after his parents fled the Khmer Rouge, Van Pech is poised to become only the second person of Cambodian descent to hold public office in the United States.
The 27-year-old is running for city council in Lowell, Massachusetts, a bustling manufacturing town on America’s Eastern seaboard which has become a quiet magnet for Southeast Asian immigrants.
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