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 ...

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 ...

ST. PAUL — The children of Hmong refugees who fled Laos during the 1970s have long heard their parents pine for a return to their Laotian homeland, but few can believe that an aging Hmong leader was ...

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 ...

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 ...

MISSOULA, Montana, Aug 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Vang Moua, a member of the ethnic Hmong hill tribe who resettled in the American West from Laos decades ago, has simple advice for new refugees ...

When my son was born almost two years ago, we held a small hu plig or “soul-calling” ceremony to welcome his spirit to the world and into our family. The shaman my parents appointed for the ceremony ...

MANITOWOC – The Hmong refugee story will be the focus of the Hmong Cultural Symposium at the Manitowoc Public Library. The event, “A Hmong Cultural Symposium: An Exploration of Hmong-American Identity ...

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 ...

ST. PAUL — U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum of Minnesota wrote a letter of opposition recently to U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo after learning of what she said was the Trump administration’s work to ...