A still image from "Bayou, Buddha, and Padaek: Southern Louisiana's Lao Foodways" shows a Louisiana Lao family gathered ...

As Hmong Americans mark the 50th anniversary of their arrival in the U.S. this year, the role of Hmong women, who were ...

War reshapes lives, leaving stories of courage, loss, and survival. Filmmakers have made countless great war movies — but ...

Soon, they began receiving calls from Legacies of War, and later, Aqua Survey. Legacies of War is a U.S.-based nonprofit organization dedicated to raising awareness about the impact of the Vietnam War ...

Laos, today a country of just 6 million people, remains the most heavily bombed country in the world per capita. Five decades after the war, these deadly items remain a persistent threat and daily ...

The neutralization and partition of the kingdom of Laos stipulated by the Geneva Accords of 1962 has served Hanoi's war against South Viet Nam admirably. Down the Ho Chi Minh Trail through the ...

A look at Minnesota's Lao community 50 years after the Vietnam War 04:45. Not all immigrants have experienced the same successes moving to Minnesota. For the modest Laotian community, a big ...

US ‘Secret War’ remembered as Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin visits Laos. Al Jazeera looks back at the most devastating period in Laos’s history, when the US waged a years-long ‘Secret ...

A CIA military base was their home during the ‘Secret War’ in Laos. Now Hmong Americans can finally see it again. Long Tieng once housed one of the busiest air hubs in the world in the 1960s, ...

The CIA recruited Hmong people to fight as surrogates of the U.S. armed forces. The Red Scare played a huge role in the Vietnam War and the lesser known Secret War, waged concurrently in ...

Fifty years ago this week Communist forces seized the city of Saigon bringing an end to the Vietnam war. It was a war that defined a generation with effects that reverberate today. We go to Laos ...

New Documentary Focuses on Laos' Land Mine Problem. October 27th, 2011 Small, impoverished and landlocked, Laos usually receives less attention than its Southeast Asian neighbors. Yet in one ...