SHEBOYGAN – Sharing similar experiences and dealing with generational challenges as young Hmong women, South High junior Jansunee Moua and her friends decided they wanted to create a support group. To ...

Monica Lo stayed silent for years as the man she married abused her. She said he punched and even choked her. Lo said she didn’t report the violence to law enforcement and lied to doctors about her ...

Kaohly Vang Her will be inaugurated Friday afternoon as St. Paul’s first Hmong and female mayor. She beat Melvin Carter in ...

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — In a crowded refugee camp in Thailand, Misty Her often sneaked away to a school house and listened through a hole in the wall. She knew she could never attend, being Hmong and a ...

The leadership team of the Hmong American Women's Association at their offices in The Pabst Mansion in Milwaukee. Today is the last day of national Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, but ...

In 1976, when I was 8 years old, my family and I came to the United States as refugees from Laos. We are Hmong, which is one of the ethnic groups in Laos that acted as allies of the Americans during ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) - Kao Ly Ilean Her, the first Hmong woman admitted to the Minnesota Bar Association, died Thursday in Saint Paul at 52 years old. The daughter of Bee Yang Her and Chad Vua Her, ...

GERRON: A CAMPAIGN UNDERWAY RIGHT NOW IS RAISING AWARESS ABOUT A.I.M. -- ABUSIVE INTERNATIONAL MARRIAGES. >> HELP A.I.M., ABUSIVE INTERNATIONAL MARRIAGES. GERRON: IT’S ONE OF THE MANY DANGERS, ...

Fifty years ago, Hmong people first arrived in Minnesota as refugees from the wars of Southeast Asia. In their Laotian homeland, they were earmarked for destruction for having aided the U.S. side in ...

The Hmong New Year Festival, put on annually by United Hmong of Massachusetts, returned to Saima Park in Fitchburg this year and received ideal weather for the traditional Hmong folklore dances, ...

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