Prominent United Nations-affiliated rights advocates have notified the government of Laos of their concerns over the persecution of ethnic Hmong people, many of whom are Christians, in the communist ...

BANGKOK, Thailand -- A lingering legacy of the Vietnam War emerged from the jungles of Laos on Wednesday, as hundreds of members of the Hmong hill tribe minority surrendered to the communist ...

But the reality on the ground is often very different, especially in remote, mountainous areas where Christian families are ...

The last time Mai Chue Xiong heard from her husband was more than four years ago, when he called her from jail after he was deported from the family's hideout in Bangkok. Thailand had made a ...

BANGKOK, Thailand - After decades on the run, 170 women, children and old men of the Hmong ethnic minority - once part of a U.S.-backed secret army fighting Communists in Laos - emerged from their ...

PHETCHABUN, Thailand (AP) — Thailand sent army troops with shields and batons to evict some 4,000 ethnic Hmong asylum seekers Monday and send them back to Laos despite strong objections from the U.S.