Thailand is trying to evict some 4,000 ethnic Hmong asylum seekers and send them back to Laos despite strong objections from the United States and human rights groups. They fear that the Hmong will ...

Thai soldiers headed into a camp housing Hmong early today to expel about 4,000 of the economic refugees. PHETCHABUN, Thailand - Thailand sent army troops with shields and batons to evict some 4,000 ...

The Hmong, an ethnic minority group from Laos’ rugged mountains, helped U.S. forces during the Vietnam War. Many Hmong fought under CIA advisers during the so-called “secret war” in Laos before it ...

Hmong hilltribe people in Thailand are often looked down upon, whether they have lived in the country for generations or are illegal immigrants from Laos. The first Hmong Thai priest, one of only ...

PHETCHABUN, ThailandPHETCHABUN, Thailand — Thai troops packed more than 4,000 ethnic Hmong into military trucks for a one-way journey to Laos, all but ending the Hmong’s three-decade search for asylum ...

It was in St. Paul where much of the international uproar over the late 2005 exhumations of 1,027 Hmong graves near the Wat Tham Krabok Buddhist monastery in Saraburi, Thailand – which occurred as ...

BANGKOK — The Thai military has mobilized troops and buses and was preparing Sunday to forcibly return 4,000 Hmong asylum seekers to Laos in a lingering echo of the Vietnam War, human rights groups ...

BANGKOK, Thailand — Thailand deported 163 ethnic Hmong asylum-seekers to Laos on Saturday who authorities said had entered the country illegally in recent years trying to reach a large refugee camp.

Hundreds of low-budget Hmong language films—comedies, action films, horror films, historical fiction movies, documentaries and others—have been produced for Hmong American audiences since the 1990s.

Hmong women cry after being told they will be sent back to Laos For the past four years, thousands of ethnic Hmong, who have fled from their homes in the mountains of northern Laos, have been living a ...

BANGKOK, Thailand, January 30 (UNHCR) - Thailand on Tuesday put the deportation of 153 Lao Hmong refugees on hold after a group of male refugees resisted their forced removal from a detention centre ...