LONG TIENG, LAOS – We met in the Laotian capital of Vientiane, not far from the spot on the Mekong River where the Xiong family fled to Thailand one night in May 1975. At the time of their ...

A lot can change in 50 years. And that’s no more evident than in Long Tieng in central Laos, once thought of as “the most secret place on the earth”.. The village of Long Tieng is only 80 ...