Under pressure from the Trump administration, Laos began accepting a limited number of American deportees in June 2025, opening the door to Hmong residents whose parents had left the country as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the U.S. waged its war in Vietnam, the CIA crossed into Laos, where it quietly trained some 35,000 Hmong soldiers to fight ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This year's public dedication at the Lao, Hmong and American Veterans Memorial was the last due to dwindling numbers of Hmong veterans in Sheboygan.

The Hmong are an ethnic group living primarily in China and Southeast Asia. There are communities of Hmong migrants across the globe. For Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Isabella ...

As the U.S. waged its war in Vietnam, the CIA crossed into Laos, where it quietly trained some 35,000 Hmong soldiers to fight Communism from 1961 to 1975, a period of civil war when at least three ...