Li Naluo, a talented singer and an ethnic Lahu woman in Southwest China's Yunnan Province, has led locals in realizing their dreams of overcoming poverty and achieving prosperity, through singing and ...

This July 21, 2012 photo shows a woman crossing a wooden bridge over the Mae Kok River in northern Thailand’s Chiang Rai Province. The valley is home to numerous minority hill tribe villages, ...

A Lahu girl learns to pat drum from her parents. (Chinanews.com/Shi Guanglin) ...

'They pointed a gun at me," Lana whispers into my ear. It's like a confession after her attempts to tell me fragments of a happy story that sounds like her Lahu community lives in a peaceful haven -- ...

Growing up immersed in this rich cultural environment, Li says she was like any other child in the village. "We learned to sing as soon as we could speak, and dance as soon as we could walk," she says ...

The pounding sound of a pestle and mortar was clearly heard from the raised-floor wooden house of Nako Praipethratip. The sound was accompanied by conversation and laughing, but I didn't understand ...

CHIANG RAI, Thailand (AP) – The Kok River is a cocoa-colored expressway into the heart of hill tribe country. Rushing down from Myanmar and through Thailand's northern mountains to the city of Chiang ...

Nestled in the lush mountains of Southwest China's Yunnan province, the small village of Laodabao was once connected to the outside world just by a rugged dirt road. Home to approximately 500 people ...

CHIANG RAI, Thailand — The Kok River is a cocoa-colored expressway into the heart of Thailand’s hill-tribe country. Rushing down from Myanmar and through Thailand’s northern mountains to the city of ...

The Kok River is a cocoa-colored expressway into the heart of hill tribe country. Rushing down from Myanmar and through Thailand's northern mountains to the city of Chiang Rai, its banks and the ...

CHIANG RAI, Thailand (AP) -- The Kok River is a cocoa-colored expressway into the heart of hill tribe country. Rushing down from Myanmar and through Thailand's northern mountains to the city of Chiang ...