May Song Vang, a leader in the Hmong community both during and after the death of her husband, the iconic Hmong Gen. Vang Pao, died this week in her home state of California. May Song Vang died Monday ...

Details about a Lao-Hmong national memorial will be revealed at a weekend event featuring traditional music, food, entertainment, artwork and the display of a restored T-28 warplane representative of ...

Laos and Hmong human rights groups, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) as well as Lao government sources and refugees are reporting that Lao Peoples Army (LPA) units are launching renewed offensive ...

The Center for Public Policy Analysis (CPPA), the Lao Veterans of America Institute (LVAI), the Lao Veterans of America, Inc. (LVA), and a coalition of Laotian and Hmong-American organizations, joined ...

Dia Yang is a cultural broker at the Fresno Center for New Americans. She helps Southeast Asian refugees acclimate to the United States. On this rainy day, she’s working with a dozen older Hmong men ...

This article originally appeared on PRI.org on May 26, 2016, and is republished here as part of a content-sharing agreement. Think of kwv txhiaj as song poetry. Or better yet, think of it like a Hmong ...

ST. PAUL — U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum of Minnesota wrote a letter of opposition recently to U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo after learning of what she said was the Trump administration’s work to ...

Author Kao Kalia Yang's father has been a farmer, a refugee, a machinist. But in a book about his life, Yang elevated his true vocation — poet. Soon, his story will be an opera. The Minnesota Opera ...

Tou Saik Lee is a Hmong American living in Minnesota. He felt disconnected from his culture. Then he discovered hip hop and the traditional songs of his grandmother. They began performing together.

The local Hmong community gets a double dip on holiday festivities this week, with the arrival of Thanksgiving and Hmong New Year. From Nov. 27-29, the Hmong Family Foundation will host a Hmong New ...