Effective January 1, the United States has added Laos to its travel ban list, barring Lao citizens from entering the country or applying for new U.S. visas, including those for work, study, ...

"They do the Hmong New Years, their celebrations, their gatherings, and if relatives in America here are free, they want to ...

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 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 ...

BANGKOK, Thailand — The U.N. refugee agency is concerned about Thailand’s recent repatriation of a small group of ethnic Hmong to Laos because of reports that they were sent back involuntarily, a ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Lao-Hmong memorial set to be built in a Westminster park is not happening after nearly 20 years of planning.

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...