As the Vietnam War raged on in Southeast Asia during the 1960s and 1970s, a separate United States-backed operation was also ...

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 National Lao-Hmong Memorial Foundation restored a T-28 warplane and revealed the design of a memorial to honor Hmong soldiers who fought alongside the U.S. during the Vietnam War. From 1960 to ...

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 ...

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 ...

LA CROSSE, Wis. (WKBT)- It’s Hmong-Lao Memorial day, and Senator Brad Pfaff and Representative Jill Billings were at Veterans Freedom Park to help celebrate with the Hmong Lao Veterans. Pfaff and ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is the second installment in a three-part series called “50 Years in the Valley: The Hmong Journey from War to Home,” ...

This year (2025) marks 50 years since the first Hmong refugees arrived in the United States. Today, 330,000 Hmong people ...

A 47-year-old father of six from mid-Michigan who has lived in the U.S. since he was nearly 2 spent five months in ICE ...