Christian minorities have endured brutal treatment in Egypt and Vietnam over the last few days. Events in Egypt, where an ultra-conservative Islamic group—emboldened by the new freedom delivered by ...

BANGKOK, Thailand — A lingering legacy of the Vietnam War emerged from the jungles of Laos on Wednesday, as hundreds of members of the Hmong hill tribe minority surrendered to the communist government ...

HANOI, Vietnam – Vietnamese security forces quashed a rare protest of hundreds of ethnic Hmong Christians calling for an independent state, officials said Thursday. Giang Thi Hoa, vice president of ...

A Hmong shopkeeper waiting for customers at his shop in Dong Van district, in northern Vietnam’s Ha Giang province. Photo courtesy: AFP Vietnam (AFP) — Vuong Duy Bao surveys his ancestral palace, a ...

I love and loathe Sapa, Vietnam. Maybe loathe's too harsh of a term. Let’s just say I found some aspects of traveling in Sapa irritating. As a photographer I found Sapa frustrating, because every time ...

Our Hmong Neighbors is a four-part series that will be published once each week through the month of February. The series is meant as a basic introduction to various aspects of Hmong culture, as told ...

In Vietnam's northern highlands, ethnic tribes descend from the mountains every week, tramping for miles to sell a water buffalo, haggle over medicinal herbs or bargain for intricately embroidered ...