Laotian immigrants from Thailand to the United States fight cancer The Powerball jackpot is 46.7 billion baht, the eighth highest in history.
April 2024 US Powerball Lottery There was a big winner. It received a jackpot worth more than US$1.3 billion (about 46.7 billion baht). But what is even more interesting is that he is also a Laotian who immigrated from Thailand.
Charlie Saifan, 46, of Portland, Oregon, said in a press conference on April 29 that he won the lottery with his wife, Duyanbin, 37, and his longtime friend, Lisa Zhao, 55.
He said Chow paid $100 to buy the lottery ticket. After buying the tickets together, Jisha then took a photo of the ticket and gave it to Charlie and said, “We are billionaires,” he of course joked. But this turned out to be true.
They opted for the lump sum jackpot, which after taxes would be approximately US$422 million (15.6 billion baht), with Charlie and Deyuanfen sharing half the prize with Chow.
Charlie has been suffering from cancer since 2016 and last week underwent chemotherapy.
Charlie said: “I will be able to support my family and my health… and find a good doctor for myself,” adding that he has two children. But as a cancer patient, he wondered: “How am I going to have time to spend all this money?” How long can I live?
Charlie was born in Laos, he said. I am a native of Maine. Or an ethnic group with roots in southern China who moved to Thailand in 1987 before immigrating to the United States in 1994. Today, there are tens of thousands of Yu Min people living in cities on the West Coast of the United States. It has a great community in Portland.
Charlie graduated high school in 1996 and lived in Portland for 30 years, where he worked as a mechanic for an airline.
He said that before drawing the prize, he wrote the numbers he would choose on a piece of paper and put them under his pillow. He prayed for his reward, “I need help. I don’t want to die unless I can do something for my family first.”
The winning Powerball ticket was purchased in early April at the Plaid Pantry convenience store in Portland, ending a streak of more than three months without a winner.
The $1.3 billion prize is the fourth-largest jackpot in Powerball history. It is the eighth largest among all American awards. With the highest jackpot value in the United States. There will be $2.04 billion in prizes in California in 2022.
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