Hmong News – Laos
Laotian, Hmong Americans Cautiously Optimistic Ahead of Obama’s Laos Visit
More Than Just Hunting Ghosts: Mainstream Disciplines Every Researcher Should Be Familiar With
When Saigon fell in 1974, effectively ending the conflict in Vietnam, the Hmong people found themselves in a very dangerous situation. The Hmong, an ethic minority from the mountainous regions of Laos and Vietnam, were recruited by the French and American …
Hmong refugees in U.S. advise newcomers – put your past behind and get to work
MISSOULA, Montana, Aug 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Vang Moua, a member of the ethnic Hmong hill tribe who resettled in the American West from Laos decades ago, has simple advice for new refugees. Put aside your pride, put your past behind you and get …
Older refugees in US advise newcomers — work hard, brace for cold weather
MISSOULA: Vang Moua, a member of the ethnic Hmong hill tribe who resettled in the American West from Laos decades ago, has simple advice for new refugees. Put aside your pride, put your past behind you and get to work, he said. “Make money to feed your …
Hmong refugees who fled Laos woven into social tapestry of Western U.S.
MISSOULA, Montana, Aug 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – M issoula welcomed a migrant family from the Democratic Republic of Congo this month, part of an effort to resettle refugees in the small western U.S. city where hundreds of Hmong people from Laos …
FACTBOX – Hmong refugees who fled Laos woven into social tapestry of Western U.S.
MISSOULA, Montana (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Missoula welcomed a migrant family from the Democratic Republic of Congo this month, part of an effort to resettle refugees in the small western U.S. city where hundreds of Hmong people from Laos began …
Older refugees in U.S. advise newcomers – work hard, brace for cold weather
MISSOULA, Montana (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Vang Moua, a member of the ethnic Hmong hill tribe who resettled in the American West from Laos decades ago, has simple advice for new refugees. Put aside your pride, put your past behind you and get to work …
FACTBOX-Hmong refugees who fled Laos woven into social tapestry of Western U.S.
MISSOULA, Montana, Aug 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Missoula welcomed a migrant family from the Democratic Republic of Congo this month, part of an effort to resettle refugees in the small western U.S. city where hundreds of Hmong people from Laos …
Greeting refugees, U.S. city draws on wisdom learned decades ago from Laotian immigrants
MISSOULA, Montana (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Decades after hosting Hmong families who had fled Laos, the small city of Missoula, Montana, nestled in the Rocky Mountains, is drawing on the success of that experience to welcome a new set of refugees.
Grant Visas to Afghans
Vang Pao, a leader of the Hmong people. This was when a coalition government was taking over and the United States was disengaging from Laos. For a time it appeared that we were going to abandon the Hmongs who had served so valiantly under our direction …
First Congolese refugees touch down in Missoula
The IRC was here in the late 1970s and early 1980s to help Hmong refugees from Laos start new lives. It gave way to the Lao Family Community, which morphed into the Refugee Assistance Center that helped bring a smaller wave of Russians to town starting in …
First Congolese refugees touch down
The IRC was here in the late 1970s and early 1980s to help Hmong refugees from Laos start new lives. It gave way to the Lao Family Community, which morphed into the Refugee Assistance Center that helped bring a smaller wave of Russians to town starting in …
Obama visit will ‘basically’ normalize relations with Laos
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest. The refugee population includes former residents of the Laotian lowlands as well as the Hmong, whose Vietnam War-era assistance for the CIA and U.S. Special Forces in the country’s mountainous regions made them …
Obama’s upcoming visit to Laos aims to begin new chapter
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest. The president’s visit could elicit a mixed bag of reactions from the Lao, Hmong and other ethnic groups who now call the U.S. home, according to Kou Yang, a retired ethnic studies professor who taught at …
Portland Tribune: Portland’s poor welcome: report finds immigrants, refugees more educated but worse off
But Lee Po Cha knows differently. A Hmong refugee from Laos almost 40 years ago, Lee is now the executive director of Portland’s Immigrant & Refugee Coalition Organization (IRCO). He has seen the waves of refugees from Asia, the Soviet Union, Africa and …
Eyes of the world examining refugee resettlement in Missoula
In her short stay, Wulfhorst needed to find the right people and hope they were willing to talk to her. Most of them are from a Hmong community that began arriving in Montana as refugees from Thailand after their native Laos fell to communist forces in 1975.
For Hmong farmers, a growing experience
HASTINGS — Mao Moua still gets up at the crack of dawn and works her vegetable farm until nearly sunset, just as she did as a girl in Laos. “I’m tired,” Moua says near the end of a long day. “I’m really tired.” At 68, Moua isn’t certain how many years …
‘I Shot the Buddah’ revisits Siri Paiboun, solving crimes in late 1970s Laos
For instance, Siri hosts – as in his body serves as a nesting place for – a thousand-year-old Hmong shaman. This does not make Siri a super hero; if anything, he is the most wonderfully human of heroes. “Siri awoke from a deep Glenfiddich sleep with …
