WASHINGTON — A California congressman has joined human rights activists in voicing concern over the treatment of ethnic Hmong deported by Thailand late last year to their native Laos and now being ...

BANGKOK, Thailand -- A lingering legacy of the Vietnam War emerged from the jungles of Laos on Wednesday, as hundreds of members of the Hmong hill tribe minority surrendered to the communist ...

Thailand sent army troops with shields and batons to evict some 4,000 ethnic Hmong asylum seekers Monday and send them back to Laos despite strong objections from the U.S. and rights groups who fear ...

WASHINGTON — Sen. Al Franken met with a group of about 150 repatriated Hmong in Laos today in a village built by the Laotian government for them. “I went there today to see their circumstances now,” ...

Mayka, born in 1952, grew up as one of 10 children in east-central Laos, where they carried water from the well every day after school and foraged for vegetables and bamboo shoots to help their ...

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 U ...

BANGKOK-- The Catholic Office for Emergency Relief and Refugees (COERR) has pledged to continue to help more than 4,000 ethnic Hmong asylum-seekers who were recently repatriated from northern Thailand ...

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 ...

Prominent United Nations-affiliated rights advocates have notified the government of Laos of their concerns over the persecution of ethnic Hmong people, many of whom are Christians, in the communist ...

WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) - Former principal for Weston Elementary School, Jim Harris, visits Laos annually to teach himself and central Wisconsin about Hmong culture and heritage. Harris has made 22 trips ...