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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July 1, 2011
Environmentalists are hopeful the first international study of dioxin contamination around Bien Hoa Airbase will pave the way for a US-funded cleanup International and local researchers conduct sediment sampling around the Bien Hoa Airbase. The first-ever international study has confirmed continued dioxin contamination at the airbase and called for an immediate stop to fish [...]
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June 4, 2011
A prominent activist has called on President Barack Obama to redress the deadly legacies  of Agent Orange, fifty years after the US first sprayed the toxic defoliant over South Vietnam. Between 1961 and 1971, the US Army sprayed  80 million liters of Agent Orange, containing 366 kilograms of dioxin, over 30,000 square miles of [...]
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August 1, 2009
A makeshift sign reads “Unexploded bombs, danger” in a field in central Vietnam. Over 35 percent of the land in six central provinces remains contaminated with unexploded ordnance (UXO), which still kills scores of innocent people every year, according to a new study released Friday. Since the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, unexploded [...]
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June 4, 2009
A visitor to the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City looks at pictures revealing the devastating effects Agent Orange As Vietnamese Agent Orange activists take their struggle for justice to the floor of the United States congress, a British advocate campaigning on their behalf canât be the USâs intentions. The hearings on Thursday [...]
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