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 ...

Mayka, born in 1952, grew up as one of 10 children in east-central Laos, where they carried water from the well every day after school and foraged for vegetables and bamboo shoots to help their ...

Apr. 12—SUPERIOR — The Richard I. Bong Veterans Historical Center is commemorating Hmong Heritage Month in Wisconsin with an exhibit and a guest speaker in April. The exhibit, "A Legacy Revealed: The ...

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 ...

PHETCHABUN, Thailand (AP) — Thailand sent army troops with shields and batons to evict some 4,000 ethnic Hmong asylum seekers Monday and send them back to Laos despite strong objections from the U.S.

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 ...

BANGKOK, Thailand, November 16 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency said Thursday it was seriously concerned about Thailand's deportation to Laos of 53 ethnic Hmong, including a newborn baby. Describing ...

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 ...

HUAY NAM KHAO, Thailand -- For many in the bamboo huts of this squalid settlement, the name Gen. Vang Pao evokes a time when the Hmong people fought encroaching communism in Laos as favored allies of ...

HUAY NAM KHAO, Thailand, July 5 -- Soaked by rain, thousands of poor ethnic Hmong refugees from Laos were living without shelter in northern Thailand on Tuesday, forced from their homes under a Thai ...

Soaked by rain, thousands of poor ethnic Hmong refugees from Laos were living without shelter in northern Thailand on Tuesday, forced from their homes under a Thai campaign to pressure them to return ...