neverdem wrote: “Linh is the surname.”
LOL.
Linh is the first name. Voong is the surname. But as I’ve already said in a previous post responding to you, the police dept. of Binghamton says his real name is Wong. Voong is an alias surname. (They also mistakenly said he is of Vietnamese ethnicity.) Wong is Chinese, no doubt about it. It’s one of the most common Chinese surnames worldwide.
neverdem wrote: “Voong is the bad transliteration of Vong(with a small question mark over the ‘o’) from Quoc Ngu, the name of the Vietnamese Alphabet which uses a bunch of diacritical marks to differentiate vowels...”
Again, Voong is Hmong.
Maybe you should look at these url’s:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_Chinese_surnames
-—Under 2006 rankings, look “Vong” at #2 and #7.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_name
-—No “Linh”, “Vong” nor “Voong” surnames on this page.
Like I said before, Linh Phat Vong is Vietnamese. Linh is the surname according to my Vietnamese wife. Surname is first in many Far East languages, IIRC. Check Korean, Kim Jong Il and his father, Kim Il Sung.
But as I’ve already said in a previous post responding to you, the police dept. of Binghamton says his real name is Wong. Voong is an alias surname. (They also mistakenly said he is of Vietnamese ethnicity.) Wong is Chinese, no doubt about it. It’s one of the most common Chinese surnames worldwide.
That was the name submitted to the government from a refugee processing center is all that I can surmise at this time.
Again, Voong is Hmong.
That could well be true. I would not be surprised that people from Laos lived in Vietnam. So did people from Cambodia and China.
Maybe you should look at these url’s:
When a subject could involve politics, Wikipedia is the last source that I use. The story said they went looking for someone who spoke Vietnamese. My tagline means I'm sorry sweetheart.