HANOI, Vietnam (AP) – A Vietnamese court has sentenced eight Hmong ethnic minority leaders to up to 30 months in jail over rare unrest in the country’s northwestern highlands. Presiding Judge Pham Van ...

Plans to open joint border checkpoints between China and Vietnam in May 2018 belie unresolved tensions in relations between the two countries. Despite scrapping a marine oil-drilling project in a ...

WASHINGTON — As the years went by and more Hmong war veterans passed with them, Charlie Waters attended funerals and read eulogies for the oft-forgotten allies in the U.S. war in Southeast Asia. Now, ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Lao and Hmong veterans, and their U.S. Special Forces and clandestine advisors of the Vietnam War in Laos, are being honored on Memorial Day in a culmination of month-long ...

In the 1960s and 70s, the CIA recruited Vang Pao to organize a Hmong fighting force to join America's "secret war" against the North Vietnamese in Laos. When the war ended, 35,000 Hmong soldiers died, ...

(New York) - The government of Vietnam should conduct a full, impartial, and transparent investigation into recent unrest among thousands of Hmong Christians in northwestern Dien Bien province and the ...

HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam has deployed troops to contain a rare protest by ethnic Hmong Christians, some of whom were calling for an independent kingdom, diplomatic and other sources said on Friday, ...

Christian minorities have endured brutal treatment in Egypt and Vietnam over the last few days. Events in Egypt, where an ultra-conservative Islamic group—emboldened by the new freedom delivered by ...

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 government ...

Joseph Sung A Phia, an ethnic Hmong, decided to embrace Catholicism after members of the faith fed and clothed him when he was left destitute by floods that destroyed his home in Vietnam's Lai Chau ...