Organizers on Thursday canceled what would’ve been the 40th annual Hmong International Freedom Festival in St. Paul over concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic. The two-day event, which brings together ...

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Since taking her post as executive director of the Minnesota Hmong Chamber of Commerce, Yao Yaj has helped Hmong businesses navigate coronavirus relief funding and rebuilding after the spring's unrest ...

The 2020 Census forms can now be filled out online in 13 different languages so that immigrants are not overlooked. But local officials are concerned that two of the most spoken languages in Minnesota ...

Thousands of Hmong-Americans settled in the Twin Cities area after the Vietnam War. They became business owners, teachers and police officers. By Sabrina Tavernise They came as refugees from the ...

Two Hmong men say they have been discriminated against out of fear of the novel coronavirus while looking for a hotel room in Indiana. Kao Lor and his uncle Lee Lor were traveling through the state on ...

WAUSAU - Organizers of the Hmong Wausau Festival have decided to cancel the event in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Hmong American Center Executive Director Yee Leng Xiong shared the news in a ...

When Chef Yia Vang feeds you, he is telling you his family’s story. Every meal he makes is a tribute to his Hmong roots, his parents, and the things they taught their seven children. Drawing on ...

Efforts by the Trump administration to increase deportations to Laos have galvanized the Hmong community in the U.S., and some leaders are speaking out in ways they haven't before. The Hmong, a ...

ST. PAUL — The 2020 Census forms can now be filled out online in 13 different languages so that immigrants are not overlooked. But local officials are concerned that Hmong and Somali — two of the most ...