Tag: Southeast Asia
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Hmong SGU veterans still fighting 50 years after the end of the Secret War
As the Vietnam War raged on in Southeast Asia during the 1960s and 1970s, a separate United States-backed operation was also underway in neighboring Laos. Known as the Secret War, the CIA recruited … Full story: https://www.fox9.com/doc-9/secret-war-hmong-minnesota
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ICE arrests 16 Hmong, Laotian refugees in Michigan. Family, legislators ask for release.
In the 1960s, the CIA recruited Hmong people in Laos to battle Communist forces in southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Many of them sacrificed their lives to help the U.S. and saved the lives of … Full story: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/ice-arrests-16-hmong-laotian-refugees-in-michigan-family-legislators-ask-for-release/ar-AA1KcSoj
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A US war forced her parents to flee. Now, a Wisconsin mother has been deported back to the country she never called home
Ma Yang, a 37-year-old mother of five, was detained and deported to Laos – a small country in Southeast Asia that her parents had fled four decades earlier. Full story: https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/25/us/ma-yang-laos-trump-deportations-intl-hnk
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‘Proud to be Americans’
JayLee YANG, A MEMBER OF THE SOUTHWEST NKAUJ HMOOB DANCERS, holds up one side of an American flag as attendees of Saturday’s commemoration of Hmong and Lao veterans in the war in southeast Asia recite … Full story: http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6866aede873544369b72a058da9a3af0&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.headlightherald.com%2farticle%2f910%2cproud-to-be-americans&c=15441253135226795973&mkt=en-us
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Hmong, Laos military veterans honored
Hmong and Laos military veterans of the War in Southeast Asia were honored during a program held at City Park on Saturday. In the 1960s and 7’0s the United State’s CIA recruited around 30,000 Hmong in … Full story: https://www.marshallindependent.com/news/local-news/2025/07/hong-laos-military-veterans-honored/
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Event honoring Hmong, Lao veterans planned next week
A special event coming up in Walnut Grove will thank Hmong and Lao veterans for their service in the war in Southeast Asia, 50 years ago. The gathering will include food and performances by the SW … Full story: https://www.marshallindependent.com/news/local-news/2025/06/event-honoring-hmong-lao-veterans-planned-next-week/
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Public invited to event honoring Hmong and Lao Veterans
A gathering in observance of the service of Hmong and Lao Veterans of the war in Southeast Asia will be held on Saturday, June 28 from 1:30 – 4 p.m. at the Walnut Grove City Park. Full story: https://www.redwoodfallsgazette.com/public-invited-to-event-honoring-hmong-and-lao-veterans/
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Once home to the CIA, this tiny Southeast Asia runway was considered ‘the most secret place on Earth’
Deep in the sweltering jungles of central Laos, Long Tieng played a central role in the United States’ fight to stop the spread of communism in Southeast Asia. Fifty years after its fall, we explore … Full story: https://www.cnn.com/travel/long-tieng-laos-cia-runway-air-america-cold-war-intl-hnk-ml
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Theater review: The Hmong women are tough and funny in Jungle Theater’s powerful ‘Sixpack’
Fifty years ago, Hmong people first arrived in Minnesota as refugees from the wars of Southeast Asia. In their Laotian homeland, they were earmarked for destruction for having aided the U.S. side in … Full story: https://www.twincities.com/2025/06/02/theater-review-the-hmong-women-are-tough-and-funny-in-jungle-theaters-powerful-sixpack/
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Tracing one Hmong family’s journey from Laos to Rhode Island
The Hmong are an ethnic group living primarily in China and Southeast Asia. There are communities of Hmong migrants across the globe. For Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Isabella … Full story: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/tracing-one-hmong-familys-journey-from-laos-to-rhode-island
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