Fewer than 1,000 Hmong veterans in Minnesota who secretly fought the CIA’s war in Laos want formal recognition as veterans.

Changing state law to define them as veterans would unlock state veterans benefits like the GI bill or access to the state's ...

For years, Cambodians, Vietnamese and Lao people in Minnesota have said they’ve struggled to get specific recognition in state cultural program funding.

Hmong soldiers who fought for the U.S. during the Vietnam War are asking to be recognized for their service. The CIA recruited and trained them during the Secret War in Laos. As Caroline Cummings ...

In California, where approximately 107,000 Hmong reside, the origin of the state’s two Hmong stations, as told by Marc ...

It was December 1964, early in the Vietnam War, and the pilot was on a bombing run. The Hmong, part of a secret army backed by the CIA, hoped to reach him before North Vietnamese troops in the ...