August 10, 2009
Agent Orange victims march on Le Duan Boulevard in Ho Chi Minh Cityâs District 1 Sunday to commemorate the first Orange Day in Vietnam. Those responsible for exposing Vietnamese citizens and US troops to toxic defoliants kept silent about known health implications, a review of documents finds. US chemical companies that made Agent Orange and [...]
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August 10, 2009
Tran Huynh Thuong Sinh (R), 7, has no eyes and his legs are shrunk. He was abandoned by his parents at birth and has been since raised at the Hoa Binh Village. 28-year-old Nguyen Thi Thuy Giang looks 10 years old. She lies virtually motionless on a cradle at the Hoa Binh Village situated in [...]
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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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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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July 26, 2009
The housing market slump in the US and Asia has given wealthy Vietnamese the opportunity to own a home abroad, but the governmentâs forex regulations have restricted the trend, realtors say. Do Thi Loan, secretary general of Ho Chi Minh City Real Estate Association, said she knew many groups of Vietnamese who had traveled to [...]
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June 11, 2009
Bui Quang Phuong, owner of a fishing vessel in Da Nang City, tells his story of being chased by two Chinese patrol ships The unilateral Chinese ban on commercial fishing in the East Sea has strongly hurt seafood processing enterprises in central provinces as they have no materials to feed their factories, industry insiders said [...]
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June 10, 2009
Ayumi Konishi, Asian Development Bank Country Director for Vietnam Ayumi Konishi, Asian Development Bank (ADB) Country Director for Vietnam, spoke to Thanh Nien Daily on the current economic crisis. Thanh Nien Daily: There are signs that the economic crisis is bottoming out in the US. What about Vietnam?I agree that there are some positive signs [...]
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May 20, 2009
A victim of Agent Orange in the northern province of Ninh Binh. In the last of a three-part series, Thanh Nien Daily follows the ongoing battle for justice waged by Agent Orange victims undaunted by setbacks. Those who manufactured Agent Orange and the government that allowed its use are guilty and have to pay full [...]
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May 18, 2009
In this second part of a three-part series, Thanh Nien Daily follows the ongoing battle for justice waged by Agent Orange victims undaunted by setbacks. An international panel of judges listen to testimonies presented at the International Peoplesâ Tribunal of Conscience in support of the Vietnamese Victims of Agent Orange which opened in Paris on [...]
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April 30, 2009
Bill Ehrhart presenting one of his poems to Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap in June 1990. Ehrhart, now 60 and a poet and teacher, says he keeps a copy of this photograph in his classroom so he can proudly tell his students he once met one of the gr American veterans revisit the crimes of [...]
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