Latest news about Hmong


California community fuses traditional, western medicine to help Hmong immigrants

California’s Central Valley is home to thousands of Hmong refugees from Laos, but local hospitals and doctors there have struggled to treat them. Traditionally Hmong were more likely to look a shaman than a doctor if they were sick, so many of them ended up getting treated in the emergency room. But that’s changing thanks to a program in Merced, Calif., called “Partners in Healing." A Hmong ...

9 May 2012, 5:31 pm | click here to view more

Hmong Spring Dance Festival is Friday, Saturday at SMSU

MARSHALL - The Hmong population is made up of more than people who have fled their native land and need help in their new land, says a member of a dance troupe.

8 May 2012, 5:22 am | click here to view more

Highlights of Hmong culture

EUREKA -- More than 70 service providers have a better understanding of the Hmong culture after participating in a recent workshop sponsored by the Department and Health and Human Services' Office of Client and Cultural Diversity.

7 May 2012, 9:20 am | click here to view more

Hmong Veterans Burial Bill Turns Corner

  Chief author Representative Bob Dettmer sponsored two bills to aid the Hmong and Lao veterans in obtaining burial rights guaranteed to other veterans.home File 2260 is a Resolution to Congress, the President and the legislatures of other states to...

7 May 2012, 10:21 pm | click here to view more

Hmong health care gap focus of Healthy House dinner

There's still work to be done when it comes to creating an environment in which Hmong residents

4 May 2012, 10:06 am | click here to view more

Web comments lash out at Hmong community

Racial tensions ignite in La Crosse after police announce the arrests of two Hmong men earlier this week as part of a homicide investigation.

3 May 2012, 11:37 pm | click here to view more

Variety marks transition in Hmong filmmaking

The third annual Hmong film festival this weekend features works by artists who tell a variety of stories, signaling a transition in Hmong filmmaking.

18 May 2012, 9:05 am | click here to view more

Solana Beach art exhibit sheds light on stories of Hmong tribal life

In the 1960s, the United States employed the tribal Hmong people to battle what’s now known as “The Secret War” in the highlands of Laos. And as the Southeast Asia conflict, which coincided with the Vietnam War, wound down in defeat for the native mountain people, they fled refugee camps in Thailand, where many stayed for decades.

16 May 2012, 8:45 pm | click here to view more

Just Sold: After price cut, Hmong church changes hands in St. Paul

The members of the Hmong Community Methodist Church in St. Paul — the first Hmong United Methodist congregation in the world — are leaving the place they have called home since 1985.

16 May 2012, 12:29 pm | click here to view more

Laos, Hmong Veterans Honored At National Ceremonies

National memorial and wreath-laying ceremonies are being held in Washington, D.C., Arlington National Cemetery, and the U.S. Congress, to honor Lao and Hmong veterans of the “U.S. Secret Army” in Laos, their American clandestine advisors, and their ...

15 May 2012, 1:44 am | click here to view more