Hmong News – Laos
Uneven Growth for Western North Carolina Population and Diversity Since 2010
A sizeable Hmong population in Burke County gives it the highest Asian population percentage in WNC at 4.0 percent, though larger Buncombe has more actual number of Asian residents. The Hmong are native to Laos and Vietnam, with many immigrating to the …
Ziplining to hotels on high: A stay in treehouse lodging in Laos
Women from nearby Hmong and Lamet villages fly in your fire-cooked meals each night. Every morning, you wake up, slide on a harness and essentially toss yourself out of a 15-story building. Not only is this exhilarating adventure one of the most …
Treehouses, zip-lining and gibbons in Laos
Women from nearby Hmong and Lamet villages fly in your fire-cooked meals each night. Every morning, you wake up, slide on a harness and essentially toss yourself out of a 15-story building. Not only is this exhilarating adventure one of the most …
American Colleges Should End Racist Admissions Policies
Hmong-Americans—a group that came to America in the 1970s from China, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam to escape war—face poverty rates that rival any other racial group in the United States. But they are often placed in the “Asian” admissions category …
Jerry Martinez of Lakeland stumbled into a career of providing translaters
It was in 1997 when he met one of his most memorable challenges. A client called, requesting an interpreter for Hmong, a dialect spoken mostly by people in China, northern Vietnam, Thailand and Laos and only about 260,000 people in the United States.
Mary Sanchez: Help those who served U.S. in Laos
The announcements — lauded by many Hmong and Laotian Americans — will help rectify the on-going deadly consequences of a war ended long ago. It’s an important step, one of humanitarian importance that will surely save life and limb. But there is more …
Laid-back in Luang Prabang
Our guide Yae, a lawyer and gentleman farmer at his Hmong home fields when he takes a break from being a genial xenagogue, informed us that tourism is the next best income generator in Laos after agriculture, this last heavily dependent on the cultivation …
Treehouses on top of the world: Zip-lining to lodgings in Laos
Women from nearby Hmong and Lamet villages fly in your fire-cooked meals each night. Every morning, you wake up, slide on a harness and essentially toss yourself out of a 15-story building. Not only is this exhilarating adventure one of the most …
Obama’s Visit to Laos a Watershed Moment for L.A.’s Lao Community
The CIA advisors trained and supplied a guerrilla force of mostly hill tribesmen of the Hmong ethnic minority in Laos, whose ancestral lands abutted the border area overlooking the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The town of Long Chen, site of a secret CIA air base …
Mary Sanchez: Time to honor, care for those who helped US in Laos
The announcements — lauded by many Hmong and Laotian Americans — will help rectify the ongoing deadly consequences of a war ended long ago. It’s an important step, one of humanitarian importance that will surely save life and limb. But there is more …
Remembering the Courage of the CIA’s Friends
I know something about that legacy—particularly the bits that went unmentioned by Mr. Obama. My own thoughts are with our most loyal and dedicated allies from that era, the dwindling Hmong of northern Laos, for whom…
Sanchez: Time to honor those who served in Laos
The announcements — lauded by many Hmong and Laotian Americans — will help rectify the on-going deadly consequences of a war ended long ago. It’s an important step, one of humanitarian importance that will surely save life and limb. But there is more …
Hmong woman keeps families together
Her daughter calls Mae Vang’s life a Cinderella story. Born in Laos during the Vietnam War, orphaned early, raised by a mean aunt, coming to America, marrying early as is her culture’s tradition, learning to parent as a teenager and eventually going to …
Honor for our old allies in Laos is long overdue
The announcements — lauded by many Hmong and Laotian Americans — will help rectify the ongoing deadly consequences of a war ended long ago. It’s an important step, one of humanitarian importance that will surely save life and limb. But there is more to …
Hmong: US President Recognizes Long-Term Effects of Bombing Laos During Vietnam War
The US President Barack Obama announced on Tuesday, 6 September 2016, that Washington will spend US$90 million over three years to clean up unexploded bombs in Laos. Hmong refugees and their descendants in the US welcomed the initiative and hope that it …
It’s time to honor, and care for, those who served our country in Laos
The announcements — lauded by many Hmong and Laotian Americans — will help rectify the on-going deadly consequences of a war ended long ago. It’s an important step, one of humanitarian importance that will surely save life and limb. But there is more …
13 Books Recommended by Elizabeth Gilbert
Lia’s parents, Foua and Nao Kao, were part of a large Hmong community in Merced, refugees from the CIA-run “Quiet War” in Laos. The Hmong, traditionally a close-knit and fiercely people, have been less amenable to assimilation than most immigrants …
Deadly legacy of US covert war continues to haunt Laos
Mr Obama admitted this week that the US “did not acknowledge” at the time its war in Laos, during which the Central Intelligence Agency also organised a secret army among the hill-dwelling Hmong people. The president also announced an extra $90m for …
