The Hmong hill tribe was recruited in 1961 by the United States to combat Vietcong forces during the Vietnam War. Following U.S. withdrawal from the region, communist forces seized control of Laos and ...

BANGKOK, Thailand -- A lingering legacy of the Vietnam War emerged from the jungles of Laos on Wednesday, as hundreds of members of the Hmong hill tribe minority surrendered to the communist ...

Artist Poa Houa Her at her Minneapolis studio on April 21 with one of her junglescape photographs. Her lived in hiding in the jungles of Laos for over a year before escaping to a refugee camp in ...

BANGKOK-- The Catholic Office for Emergency Relief and Refugees (COERR) has pledged to continue to help more than 4,000 ethnic Hmong asylum-seekers who were recently repatriated from northern Thailand ...

WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) - Former principal for Weston Elementary School, Jim Harris, visits Laos annually to teach himself and central Wisconsin about Hmong culture and heritage. Harris has made 22 trips ...

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 ...

The partner of a Hmong American mother of five deported to Laos said Tuesday she is trying to figure out where to go, and what to do, in the country, even though she has never been there and doesn't ...

BANGKOK, Thailand, January 30 (UNHCR) - Thailand on Tuesday put the deportation of 153 Lao Hmong refugees on hold after a group of male refugees resisted their forced removal from a detention centre ...

Two dozen Hmong men who have lived in Minnesota for decades are being held in Minnesota and Iowa jails awaiting deportation, according to the executive director of a Twin Cities-based Hmong advocacy ...

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 ...