Hmong News – Laos
Exposing the good from America’s secret weapon in Laos
First, after receiving invaluable assistance from Hmong tribe members, American personnel repopulated thousands to the United States in advance of the December 1975 Communist takeover in Laos. Second, Congress approved normalization of trade ties with …
The US’s Stateless People: How Immigration Gaps Create Poverty
Fresno, California — They came to the United States in the 1970s and 1980s as child refugees, members of the Hmong minority in Laos fleeing that country’s new communist government and persecution for helping the CIA in its covert war in Southeast Asia.
Stateless People: How Immigration Gaps Create Poverty in the US
Fresno, California — They came to the United States in the 1970s and 1980s as child refugees, members of the Hmong minority in Laos fleeing that country’s new communist government and persecution for helping the CIA in its covert war in Southeast Asia.
America’s Stateless Hmong
They came to the United States in the 1970s and 1980s as child refugees, members of the Hmong minority in Laos fleeing that country’s new communist government and persecution for helping the CIA in its covert war in Southeast Asia, looking for the …
Young woman fights to reclaim ‘my worth and my story’ after sexual assault
Hold onto that thought. This detail would prove critical later. Telling her family was excruciating. Xiong comes from a large, tight-knit Hmong family from Laos. She was raised in relative poverty in Marysville. Her parents were refugees. Her father had …
Young woman fights to reclaim ‘my worth and my story’ after assault in Davis
Hold onto that thought. This detail would prove critical later. Telling her family was excruciating. Xiong comes from a large, tight-knit Hmong family from Laos. She was raised in relative poverty in Marysville. Her parents were refugees. Her father had …
Wausau Hmong Memorial Still Coming
WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAU) — A long-awaited memorial commemorating Hmong veterans and their efforts during the wars in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia will have to wait a little longer. Retired Marathon County Administrator Mort McBain is one of many working on the …
Hmong: War Veterans Memorial to be Inaugurated in the United States
Below is an article published by Wsau: A long-awaited memorial commemorating Hmong veterans and their efforts during the wars in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia will have to wait a little longer. Retired Marathon County Administrator Mort McBain is one of many …
Challenger: ‘Paul Ryan to Blame for Importing TB to Wisconsin,’ After 40 Percent Increase in 2015
Between 2005 and 2014, the number of active TB cases reported in Wisconsin among foreign-born residents from the Hmong community (from Laos through Thailand) was 69. The number of active TB cases among foreign-born residents from Burma was 12. Breitbart …
Migrants Bring Multi-Drug Resistant TB to Wisconsin
Twelve of these cases were from the Hmong people in Laos (though Case 2 in the 2014 article was categorized as “drug resistant,” not formally MDR-TB, it was probably included among these 12, as well as Case 2’s “close household contact”), four …
Cannabis valley: The sudden proliferation of marijuana grows in the California Valley worries residents
While no one’s exactly sure how this all started and who’s driving it, several people familiar with the situation say a majority of the farmers are Hmong—an ethnic group that experienced mass migration, fleeing from Laos and surrounding countries …
Massachusetts farm provides immigrants, refugees with land to grow crops
Yang, a Hmong resident of Fitchburg, has been farming daily at Flats Mentor Farm in Lancaster for seven years, a skill she learned in Laos, the country from which she emigrated in 1979. Flats Mentor Farm, operated by World Farmers, provides more than 275 …
MPR news correspondent Doualy Xaykaothao, on the Hmong-American experience
MPR News correspondent Doualy Xaykaothao recently visited Wausau, Wisconsin to see what life is like there for Hmong immigrants and their children, decades after the Hmong fought for the U.S. in Laos and arrived as refugees in Wisconsin. It was a return …
Minnesota memorial honors soldiers of ‘secret war’
Laos was neutral during the Vietnam War, but the CIA recruited Hmong soldiers to carry on a covert campaign. After the U.S. pulled out of Laos and Vietnam, tens of thousands fled and lived in refugee camps in Thailand. Many refugees eventually resettled in …
Aiding refugees has been our duty and privilege
The largest Christian Vietnamese church has over 4,000 members and the number of Vietnamese Christians is growing. In Minnesota I met Hmong Christian leaders. The Hmong were Animists from the hill country of Laos and close allies to the U.S. during the …
Religion: Let love cast out fear
The largest Christian Vietnamese church has over 4,000 members and the number of Vietnamese Christians is growing. In Minnesota I met Hmong Christian leaders. The Hmong were Animists from the hill country of Laos and close allies to the U.S. during the …
This week’s must-see art shows
Where it’s at: Bockley Gallery, 2123 W. 21st St., Minneapolis. What it’s about: In this solo exhibition of work, Hmong artist Pao Houa Her reflects on the presence of silk flowers in her family home in St. Paul, where her family relocated from Laos in …
Farm plots offer ‘small piece of home’
Yang, a Hmong resident of Fitchburg, has been farming daily at Flats Mentor Farm in Lancaster for seven years, a skill she learned in Laos, the country from which she emigrated in 1979. Flats Mentor Farm, operated by World Farmers, provides more than 275 …
