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 ...

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 ...

They were forgotten fighters. Now, 50-years later, a group of Hmong and Lao Minnesota veterans is finally being recognized by ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

GENEVA, January 26 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency said on Friday it was concerned to learn about Thailand's deportation to the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Laos) earlier in the day of 16 Lao ...

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 ...

(Reuters) - Thailand was forced on Tuesday to halt the deportation to Laos of 153 Hmong, the ethnic minority who fought alongside America in the Vietnam War, after the men in the group put up a ...