Hmong of Sam Neua, Explained Beyond Long Tieng. Within Vang Pao's Military Region II. Sam Neua, the other province. Before the Secret War turned Laos into a Cold War battleground, there was Sam Neua, as the Hmong veterans called it, or originally in Lao/T'ai language, Houa Phan Thang Hok (Six Cantons of the Frontier Thousand). A mountain world of eleven Hmong clans, hidden above the malaria line, untouched by colonial maps and lowland kings. This is the story of how a remote highland cluster of