Hmong in Minn. rally for revered leader
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Hmong refugees flocked Monday to the state Capitol grounds in a show of support for a revered leader who is accused of conspiring to overthrow the communist government of Laos.
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There could be some discord during the Tournament of Roses Parade as demonstrators promise to raise issues during the holiday spectacle that has been going on for more than a century. Human rights advocates plan to protest a float honoring the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and anti-war activists, including "Peace Mom" Cindy Sheehan, intend to rally for peace.
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MILWAUKEE - Joe Bee Xiong said hunting is a key part of life for many Hmong. But after a St. Paul, Minn., Hmong man was arrested Sunday in the shooting death of six hunters, Xiong is advising all hunters to stay home.
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A Hmong leader and  others charged with attempting to overthrow the Communist  government in Laos are heroes with high integrity who oppose  violence, their attorneys said on Tuesday.
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Days after President Bush flew into the state and complimented U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris, the congresswoman got some more love &#151; this time from GOP activists at a rally Saturday.
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BANGKOK, Dec. 13 -- 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 after decades on the run.
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When the YWCA of Salt Lake holds its annual LeaderLuncheon this Friday, the keynote speaker will be Kim Phuc Phan Thi. A U.N. goodwill ambassador, she is most famous for the photo taken of her when she was 9 years old, running down a road after her village in Vietnam had been bombed with napalm.
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RANGOON, Burma, Sept. 22 -- Hundreds of Buddhist monks marched past barricades to the home of Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, increasing pressure on the military government by symbolically uniting their growing protest movement with the icon of Burma's long struggle for democracy.
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At least 5,000 monks and nuns, applauded by thousands of onlookers, marched in Yangon on Sunday, the largest demonstration yet in Myanmar in a rare wave of protests against the ruling generals.
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About 200 pro-democracy activists rally in  Rangoon to mark Aung San Suu Kyi's party's victory in 1990 polls.
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AIDS Walk Washington drew its largest turnout in years yesterday, encouraging organizers who have been challenged to keep people focused on AIDS in the United States as awareness of it overseas has grown.
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Tens of thousands of people joined streams of Buddhist monks on marches through Myanmar's capital on Monday in the biggest demonstration against the ruling generals since they crushed student-led protests nearly 20 years ago.
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Thousands of onlookers cheered huge columns of Buddhist monks today in the largest street protests in two decades against Myanmarâs military rulers.
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IF there&#39;s one in every crowd, among the throngs of North Koreans wanting to escape Kim Jong-il&#39;s despotism there is now Kim Ki-ho.
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Chai Soua Vang, 36, of St. Paul, Minnesota, a member of that city&#39;s Hmong community, emptied his SKS semiautomatic rifle into the hunter.
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The fatal shootings of six white deer hunters by a Hmong man in northern Wisconsin last month have fueled racial animosity against the growing immigrant population, according to Hmong community leaders.
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A handful of pro-hunt protestors met  Peter Hain, the government's leader in the lower chamber House  of Commons, Saturday after hundreds showed up outside his Welsh  home, a spokesman for the Countryside Alliance said.