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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April 16, 2011
Engineer who exposed flaws in cars produced by the Toyota Vietnam says he would do it again, if needed A Toyota Innova, a popular model in the country used widely by many taxi companies, runs on a street in Ho Chi Minh City. Toyota Motor Vietnam announced last week that it plans to recall [...]
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January 31, 2010
Teenagers and younger children working in trade villages have no protection against occupational hazards Teenagers work on a stone sculpture at Ninh Van Village in the northern province of Ninh Binh. Researchers have warned that children and adolescents working in trade villages are being exposed to serious health hazards and are not receiving adequate medical [...]
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December 29, 2009
A man smokes a cigarette in Ho Chi Minh City. The Ministry of Health has launched a nationwide campaign to promote a smoking ban in indoor public places that will take effect in 2010. The launching ceremony for the mass media campaign called âCigarettes Are Eating You Aliveâ was jointly held by the ministry, the [...]
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October 15, 2009
220 billion VND, 7,000 tonnes of rice for disaster victims; Protecting hospitals key in natural disaster mitigation; 1,000 international odontologists gather in Vietnam Photo: VNAThe Prime Minister has decided to grant 220 billion VND in aid from the State budget and 7,000 tonnes of rice to the victims of natural disasters in 15 provinces nationwide. [...]
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August 9, 2009
Nguyen Ngoc Phuong, 28, a victim of the defoliant Agent Orange, walks inside a classroom at a social sponsorship center in Vietnam’s Da Nang City June 26, 2009 Scientists have always concurred that exposure to Agent Orange leads to serious health maladies â“ a conclusion those responsible for the poison conveniently ignore. The US government [...]
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July 31, 2009
In a daring experiment in Europe, scientists used mosquitoes as flying needles to deliver a “vaccine” of live malaria parasites via their bites. This 2006 photograph depicts a female Aedes aegypti mosquito while she was in the process of acquiring a blood meal from her human host. (Xinhua/Reuters File Photo)The results were astounding: Everyone in [...]
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June 16, 2009
It is time to make good on Richard Nixon’s promise and remedy the terrible wrong the US government perpetrated on the people of Vietnam, said Marjorie Cohn, a professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in the US. Marjorie Cohn, president of the National Lawyers Guild, delivered the message in an article “Agent Orange continues [...]
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June 13, 2009
Disasters caused by climate change will inflict the highest losses in poor countries with weak governments that have dashed for growth and failed to shield populations which settle in exposed areas, a UN report said. “Disaster risk is not evenly distributed,” said the report, released Thursday on the sidelines of the world climate talks in [...]
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June 10, 2009
An Agent Orange victim in Ho Chi Minh City. VietNamNet Bridge – A Vietnam War veteran, Congressman Faleomavaega asks why billions of dollars are appropriated for reconstruction efforts elsewhere, while the suffering of Vietnamese people and US veterans are ignored.The US has made minimal efforts to address the environmental consequences of Agent Orange (AO) in [...]
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