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
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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December 13, 2010
Da Nang Airport in the central city of the same name. The area is a dioxin hotspot containing very high amounts of the toxin. The US has allocated US$17 million for a project to clean up dioxin around the Da Nang Airport in the central city, according to the Vietnam Association of Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin. Nguyen [...]
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February 6, 2010
Artisans work at the calligraphy market on Pham Ngoc Thach Street in HCM City’s District 1.LookAtVietnam – Traditional Tet favourites like calligraphy markets and flower fairs have begun in HCM City in the week before the lunar New Year.On Pham Ngoc Thach and Nguyen Thi Minh Khai streets in front of the Labour Cultural House, [...]
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October 28, 2009
One more fatality of A/H1N1 confirmed in HCM City; International hospital to be built in Hue; EC grants EUR1.5 million for Vietnam’s healthcare industry; Da Nang hosts workshop on small scale fishery management One more fatality of A/H1N1 confirmed in HCM City The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health has confirmed a A/H1N1 fatality [...]
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September 28, 2009
Former Boyzone Ronan Keating poses with Agent Orange victims at the Peace Village in Hanoi late last week Boyzone front man Ronan Keating drew throngs of followers wherever he went during his short visit to Hanoi last week, no matter how secret his schedule was kept. Visiting mainly to promote the opening of an International [...]
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August 11, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Overseas Vietnamese, foreigners and local authorities gathered at the Union of Friendship Organisations yesterday, August 10, Shock: Visitors view photos of Agent Orange victims on display at HCM City’s Union of Friendship Organisations at 31 Le Duan street, District 1, HCM City.Every year the country remembers living and dead AO victims on August [...]
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August 10, 2009
The nation is commemorating one of the greatest injustices in modern history with a series of events held Sunday and Monday to express solidarity with and demand justice for Agent Orange victims. Today marks the first Orange Day that has been designated as such to mark the day in 1961 that American forces began spraying [...]
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