Following a country visit to the Lao People's Democratic Republic in November 2024, UN Special Rapporteur on Cultural Rights Alexandra Xanthaki has published a report confirming violations of cultural ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apr. 12—SUPERIOR — The Richard I. Bong Veterans Historical Center is commemorating Hmong Heritage Month in Wisconsin with an ...

Minnesota is on its way to officially recognizing the service of Hmong and Lao veterans who fought alongside the U.S. during the Secret War Lee Pao Xiong, a professor from the Center for Hmong Studies ...

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 ...

Thai troops packed more than 4,000 ethnic Hmong into military trucks Monday for a one-way journey to Laos, all but ending the Hmong's three-decade search for asylum following their alliance with the ...

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 do, in the country, even though she has never been there and doesn't ...

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 ...

NEILLSVILLE, Wis. (WSAW) - The Highground Veterans Memorial Park in Neillsville is a space that honors veterans year-round. A Hmong-Lao Veterans Day ceremony is on their calendar every year. People at ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, December 28 (UNHCR) - UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres appealed to the Thai government on Monday to immediately halt its ongoing forced return of some 4,000 Lao Hmong to the ...