Fountain Valley’s City Council on Tuesday formally supported a legislative effort to introduce curriculum to teach California schoolchildren about the Vietnamese refugee experience, the Cambodian genocide and Hmong cultural studies.

State Sen. Janet Nguyen (R-Garden Grove) authored Senate Bill 895, which would launch social studies lessons about Vietnamese refugees and their experiences in the United States after the 1975 fall of Saigon.

Studies also would cover the brutal Khmer Rouge regime under Pol Pot, who oversaw the killing of 2 million Cambodians between 1975 and 1979, and the history and culture of the Hmong people of Southeast Asia, including contributions of the Laotian Hmong who assisted the United States in the Vietnam War-era “secret army.”

The subject matter likely would resonate with tens of thousands of Nguyen’s constituents in Orange CountyOn Thursday, Sony announced its own internally developed online streaming video service, dubbed PlayStation Vue, set to launch in a limited beta this month. The announcement outlined many of the subscription service's early details, including a focus on network television, roughly 75 participating stations, and, perhaps most notably, the ability to stream live television. That's in stark contrast to similar paid services like Hulu, which force users to wait up to a full day for their favorite series to be streamable online.

According to Sony's press release on the matter, participating stations currently include much of the Viacom family (CBS, MTV, Comedy Central), along with Fox and NBC and some of their subsidiary stations. Currently, the major holdout is the ESPN-Disney family, which also carries ABC; that combination of