Anna Greidanus recently found her passion for art and teaching intersect with an atypical locale: a remote village in northern Thailand. Greidanus, a professor of art at Calvin College, spent two ...

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 ...

A woman from the Akha tribe of China's Yunnan province becomes a tea entrepreneur as her daughter grows up in California in Lisa See's latest, The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane. The Tea Girl of ...

The untold true story that changed the course of history.

For over a thousand years the Akha people have inhabited the hills of Asia mainly Southern China Burma and Northern Thailand The Akha Way or Akhazaunh is the code by which they live This documentary ...

A Polk County couple known for their human rights activism and Falls City-based farm were arrested in December and are now facing charges of sexual abuse, child abuse and assault. Matthew McDaniel, 59 ...

Lisa See’s latest novel, “The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane,” takes place in the fascinating world of pu’er tea, from the picking of tea leaves to the distribution of aged, fermented tea cakes in ...

Dense jungle covers much of the area where Thailand borders Burma and Laos. Visit an Akha hill tribe village maintaining its traditions in the face of tourism. Meet elephants rescued from life in ...

At 93 years, Chungyung Bekaku did not think she would get her Thai citizenship after having lived all her life in the hills ...

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 ...