January 16, 2012
Activists are unhappy that a company that profited once by maiming Vietnamese civilians is allowed to profit again in the country 18-year-old Thang, believed to be an Agent Orange victim according to locals who know his mother, waits for customers at a market in Hanoi on January 9. It would be ironic if Vietnam [...]
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December 30, 2011
US veteran Chuck Palazzo with Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange in Da Nang in central Vietnam. US veteran Chuck Palazzo has spent the past 40 years compensating victims of the Agent Orange he helped spray during his 13 months serving in the Vietnam War. Palazzo arrived in Da Nang in central Vietnam in 1970 as [...]
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December 21, 2011
US veteran Chuck Palazzo with Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange in Da Nang in central Vietnam. US veteran Chuck Palazzo has spent the past 40 years compensating victims of the Agent Orange he helped spray during his 13 months serving in the Vietnam War. Palazzo arrived in Da Nang in central Vietnam in 1970 as [...]
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December 12, 2011
As you prepare to study the various resolutions for the coming annual general meeting of your company, being held in St. Louis 24th January, 2012, I ask you to take into consideration the history of your company and the policies you have supported at various annual general meetings. It is a record that very [...]
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September 3, 2011
General Vo Nguyen Giap (C, sitting) in 1986 in Zurich with representatives from Swiss non-governmental organizations. In autumn 1986, General Vo Nguyen Giap visited Switzerland, following an invitation by the City President (the mayor) of Zurich. During his official visit, activists of the Vietnam movement and friends of Vietnam were given the opportunity to meet [...]
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August 28, 2011
John Trinh, a Vietnamese American filmmaker whose film about Agent Orange victims in Vietnam has been screened at 20 international film festivals. The Vietnam War raged when John Trinh, then Trinh Long Hoang, was growing up in Vietnam. But he knew nothing about its most insidious impacts until three decades after it ended in 1975. [...]
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August 14, 2011
Activists worry multinational corporations that produced Agent Orange could perpetrate another ecological disaster through genetically modified organisms Agent Orange victims Chu Quang Duc (C), 27 years old, and his father Chu Quang Chien (R) who served in Vietnam’s central Quang Nam – Da Nang area from 1971-1975 during the Vietnam War, attend a computer [...]
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August 9, 2011
50 years after the US began spraying Agent Orange over Vietnam and 36 years after the end of the war, victims suffer as realpolitik considerations offer faint glimmers of hope Teacher Nguyen Ngoc Phuong (C), 31, an Agent Orange victim, walks among other victims during a lesson at a hospice in Vietnam’s Da Nang [...]
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August 9, 2011
Professor Vo Quy Vietnam’s Agent Orange campaign has made the US government start to act, by educating them on the environmental and social impacts in Vietnam, a Vietnamese professor and activist has said.  Professor Vo Quy, lecturer at Vietnam National University-Hanoi and one of the first members of the Vietnam-US Dialogue Group on Agent Orange/Dioxin, [...]
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August 8, 2011
Agent Orange victims receive gifts in Hanoi Sunday Thousands of people joined a walk in Hanoi Sunday to start a one-month campaign to support Agent Orange victims, marking the 50th anniversary of an American military operation to spray the toxic chemical over Vietnam. Â Tens of thousands of students and older residents participated in the [...]
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