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.
fertility decline and the increase in life expectancy in Japan brought about an increase in the proportion of. the elderly. In 1995, the retired-age population (65 years old and over) represented 14.6 per cent of the. total population, as compared to only 4.9 per cent in 1950.