January 22, 2012
Hoang Thi Tien at a police station. She has been charged with murder after allegedly poisoning her husband and two friends with "heartbreak grass". Police in the northeastern province of Ha Giang on Friday pressed murder charges against a woman who allegedly fatally poisoned her husband and his two friends with a toxic shrub known as [...]
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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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December 15, 2011
Relatives of victims weep at the Diamond Harbour hospital in eastern India, after dozens died and many were injured drinking boot-leg liquor in several villages south of Kolkata, on December 15. A batch of home-brewed liquor thought to have been laced with the highly toxic chemical methanol has killed 143 people in eastern India, [...]
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December 3, 2011
The Drug Administration of Vietnam (DAV) announced Tuesday (November 29) that tests showed a carcinogen was not present in a popular Johnson & Johnson baby shampoo. Tests conducted by the Ho Chi Minh City Medicine Testing Institute did not find 1,4-Dioxane in Johnson’s Baby Shampoo, while a substance called quaternium-15, which releases formaldehyde, was [...]
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November 8, 2011
Vietnam authorities have ordered tests of Johnson & Johnson baby shampoo after a US coalition of environment and health groups warned that the company has not yet removed toxic chemicals from its products despite their demand in 2009. Nguyen Xuan Tien, deputy head of Cosmetics Department under the Drug Administration of Vietnam, told Thanh [...]
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August 28, 2011
Workers at An Nhien cuddly toy factory in HCMC stuff garment waste into the toys. Many teddy bears in Ho Chi Minh City are stuffed with garment waste, discharged mattress, and old spongy materials, which doctors blamed as a major cause of respiratory diseases in children. Â The products target workers and low-income earners, while [...]
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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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May 27, 2011
South Korean environmentalists stage a rally in front of the U.S embassy in Seoul. South Korea opened a second investigation in days into a report that the US military dumped toxic chemicals near the capital decades ago, a Defense Ministry official said on Wednesday, threatening to trigger an anti-American backlash. Experts have been sent to [...]
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January 23, 2011
Scientists urge for urgent action as more than one-fourth of water wells in the Red River Delta are contaminated with the carcinogenic chemicals A resident in Vietnam’s Red River Delta shows skin lesions caused by arsenic poisoning. Scientists have warned against an “alarming” contamination of arsenic and other toxic chemicals in the Delta’s groundwater. [...]
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