As the Vietnam War raged on in Southeast Asia during the 1960s and 1970s, a separate United States-backed operation was also ...

OAKDALE, Minn. -- Hmong leader Gen. Vang Pao said he would support normalized U.S. trade relations with Laos if the communist government substantially improves its human rights practices and meets ...

The partner of a Hmong American mother of five deported to Laos said Tuesday she is trying to figure out where to go, and ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Leaders of 8,000 ethnic Hmong in a makeshift camp in Thailand vowed on Monday to fight deportation to communist-run Laos, where they say they will be tortured because their ...

The last time Mai Chue Xiong heard from her husband was more than four years ago, when he called her from jail after he was deported from the family's hideout in Bangkok. Thailand had made a ...

NEILLSVILLE, Wis. (WSAW) - The Highground Veterans Memorial Park in Neillsville is a space that honors veterans year-round. A Hmong-Lao Veterans Day ceremony is on their calendar every year. People at ...

Recently, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Laos Foreign Minister Thongloun Sisoulith met in Washington for the highest-level talks between the two countries since the end of the Vietnam War ...

GENEVA, December 29 (UNHCR) - The United Nations refugee agency on Tuesday formally approached the government of Laos seeking access to Lao Hmong deported from Thailand a day earlier. Among those sent ...

MADISON, Wis. — Governor Tony Evers signed an executive order mandating the United States and Wisconsin flags to be flown at half staff on Wednesday in honor of Hmong-Lao Veterans Day. Wisconsin is ...

This year (2025) marks 50 years since the first Hmong refugees arrived in the United States. Today, 330,000 Hmong people ...