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 ...

At the 60th Session of the UN Human Rights Council, the UNPO, the Congress of World Hmong People (CWHP) and its partner ...

In the 1960s, the CIA recruited Hmong people in Laos to battle Communist forces in southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Many of them sacrificed their lives to help the U.S. and saved the lives of ...

LONG TIENG, LAOS – We met in the Laotian capital of Vientiane, not far from the spot on the Mekong River where the Xiong family fled to Thailand one night in May 1975. At the time of their escape, it ...

Prominent United Nations-affiliated rights advocates have notified the government of Laos of their concerns over the persecution of ethnic Hmong people, many of whom are Christians, in the communist ...

The Hmong community in northern Michigan has called the United States home since arriving as refugees during the Vietnam War.

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 ...

Vietnam veteran John Schultz says he owes his life to the Hmong soldiers who fought alongside him. A few months into his deployment to Vietnam, Schultz and the rest of his unit were sent on a mission ...

MADISON, Wis. (WSAW) - Gov. Tony Evers has designated May 14 as Hmong-Lao Veterans Day in Wisconsin. May 14, 1975, is recognized as the last day of airlift evacuation of remaining Hmong-Lao soldiers ...