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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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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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 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 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 3, 2009
Do Duc Diu, a war veteran from Quang Binh Province, walks with his two surviving children. Of his 15 children, 12 have died due to what were suspected to be Agent Orange-related maladies. Continual pressure should be maintained on the United States and multinational chemical companies to seek justice for Agent Orange victims, two international [...]
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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 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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