The Hmong people, who mostly reside in Southeast Asia, have long suffered persecution in Laos. In the '60s and '70s, many Laotian Hmong collaborated with the CIA to fight the communist Pathet Lao.

Laotians rarely worry, but they are always concerned with the state of Vientiane’s Thai Dam pagoda. They believe that the black Buddhist shrine is in reality a cork that holds back an evil demon. Last ...

Trying to survive meant living in constant fear and being faced with difficult choices. At the end of the Secret War, Hmong women and children often surrendered to the Pathet Lao—but trying to survive ...

The silvery Cessna Wren scudded high above the Plain of Jars, and the tiny man in rumpled fatigues peered down through eyes red-rimmed with exhaustion. Below him the wind moved casually over ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Memorial ceremonies and events mourning the 40 th anniversary of the refugee exodus from the Royal Kingdom of Laos, and mass killings of tens of thousands of Lao and Hmong ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

VIENTIANE, Laos — There are only four of them, if you do not count the children. Lois Foehringer, David Merchant, Jacqui Chagnon and Roger Rumpf are the totality of the United States’ unofficial aid ...