We met in the Laotian capital of Vientiane, not far from the spot on the Mekong River where the Xiong family fled to Thailand ...

The Hmong diaspora to Minnesota started nearly 50 years ago with one man: Leng Wong. He fled his home of Laos, arriving at ...

The Hmong Institute’s “Hmong Diaspora in Tapestry” exhibition at the Overture Center offers attendees a raw look at Hmong ...

At museums in the Twin Cities, where Hmong families settled after a Vietnam proxy war in Laos, story cloths and other ...

many Hmong grew up never knowing the life of subsistence farming in the mountains of Laos that their ancestors led. The psychological effects of sedentary confinement and war trauma remain ...

In honor of 50 years of Hmong refugee resettlement and immigration to Minnesota, MPR News will feature Hmong Minnesotans in a ...

The CIA recruited and trained thousands of Hmong people to fight on behalf of Americans during a clandestine operation in Laos during the Vietnam War, known as the "Secret War." Now, those ...

ST PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota lawmakers passed a bill that would recognize Hmong and Lao veterans for fighting communism during ...

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 ...

Minnesota is on its way to officially recognizing the service of Hmong and Lao veterans who fought alongside the U.S. during ...

Minnesota is on its way to officially recognizing the service of Hmong and Lao and other veterans who fought alongside the U.S. in the “Secret War” during the 1960s and 1970s in Laos.