The Hmong are an ethnic group from the highlands of Laos. When a communist movement called the Pathet Lao began to gain power in Laos during the Vietnam War, the Central Intelligence Agency recruited the Hmong to fight the communists and attack North Vietnamese supply lines. The resulting conflict far outlasted the Vietnam War.
High suicide rate. Approximately 30,000 Japanese people commit suicide each year. Japan has the highest life expectancy rate in the world in part because of universal health insurance, compulsory primary education and a general healthy lifestyle, according to a new study.
SINGAPORE has the fourth-best life expectancy rate in the world, latest World Health Organisation (WHO) figures reveal. Average life expectancy at birth stood at 82 years in 2011, making it a joint fourth with Italy.Women here can expect to live to 85 and men to the age of 80.The top three countries were Japan-which has a female life expectancy of 86 and a male life expectancy of 82 - Switzerland and San Marino. All three have an average life expectancy of 83, far outstripping the global average of 70.omen here can expect to live to 85 and men to the age of 80. The top three countries were Japan-which has a female life expectancy of 86 and a male life expectancy of 82 - Switzerland and San Marino. All three have an average life expectancy of 83, far outstripping the global average of 70.