NEWMARKET — While this town has been historically tolerant of immigrants, Laotians say that has not ... anger toward them because of the Vietnam War? "We just want them to know that we are ...

Laotians started streaming into the Central Valley in the early 1980s, in the wake of the Vietnam War and the communist takeover of Laos. They fled bombings, forced labor and persecution to ...

Many Laotians and Lao Hmong refugees in the Fresno area and their relatives still live in immigration limbo in the aftermath of the Vietnam War and the so-called “Secret War” in Southeast Asia.

In 1969 alone, the United States dropped more bombs on Laos than it did on Japan during all of World War II. All told, some 200,000 Laotians were killed in the war—about a tenth of the country ...

The country is still riddled with unexploded ordnance—a legacy of the United States' nine-year secret war. Mines Advisory ... on Laos never exploded, and Laotians continue to die when they ...

That was more bombs than dropped on Germany and Japan combined during World War II. During the Vietnam ... and dozens of Laotians die each year from unexploded ordnance. Here’s a video by ...

The Yuan Phai epic displays the Siamese war elephant at their peak, "some tall and stout resemble statues cast; some so superb surpass a city's worth".

Many Laotians came to the United States as refugees in the 1970s and '80s after the Vietnam War. The country was heavily bombed by the United States and plagued by a civil war between the ...

Cambodians and Laotians. We Americans always assume we're at the center of this story of Vietnam, that the Vietnam War is about Americans. LYNN NOVICK, Co-director, "The Vietnam War": Right.