January 9, 2012
Genocidal Khmer Rouge regime was backed by the US in ‘shameful foreign policy episode’ The skulls of Khmer Rouge victims are displayed in a memorial to the genocide at the Killing Fields Museum outside of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Vietnam had saved his country in the 1970s, not invaded [...]
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December 16, 2011
Supporters of US Army Private Bradley Manning, an Army intelligence analyst, attach banners to the perimeter fence of US Army Fort George G. Meade, where Manning’s hearing began Friday. A US soldier accused of giving classified documents to WikiLeaks appeared in court Friday for the first time, with the defense immediately alleging the military hearing [...]
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August 28, 2011
John Trinh, a Vietnamese American filmmaker whose film about Agent Orange victims in Vietnam has been screened at 20 international film festivals. The Vietnam War raged when John Trinh, then Trinh Long Hoang, was growing up in Vietnam. But he knew nothing about its most insidious impacts until three decades after it ended in 1975. [...]
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August 14, 2011
Activists worry multinational corporations that produced Agent Orange could perpetrate another ecological disaster through genetically modified organisms Agent Orange victims Chu Quang Duc (C), 27 years old, and his father Chu Quang Chien (R) who served in Vietnam’s central Quang Nam – Da Nang area from 1971-1975 during the Vietnam War, attend a computer [...]
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August 9, 2011
Professor Vo Quy Vietnam’s Agent Orange campaign has made the US government start to act, by educating them on the environmental and social impacts in Vietnam, a Vietnamese professor and activist has said.  Professor Vo Quy, lecturer at Vietnam National University-Hanoi and one of the first members of the Vietnam-US Dialogue Group on Agent Orange/Dioxin, [...]
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May 25, 2011
The logo of American International Group (AIG) is seen at their offices in New York in this file photograph from September 18, 2008. The US Treasury made a small profit when it sold a portion of its shares in American International Group Inc on Tuesday, but it was unclear how its investment in the beleaguered [...]
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May 6, 2011
Pakistani policemen stand guard outside the hideout of slain Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad on May 5. Only one of four principal targets shot dead by US commandos in the raid which killed Osama bin Laden was involved in any hostile fire, a person familiar with the latest US government reporting on the [...]
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November 16, 2010
Thailand’s government approved the extradition of alleged Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, pictured, to the United States on terrorism charges. A suspected Russian arms dealer dubbed the “Merchant of Death” was flown out of Thailand Tuesday to face trial in the United States following a long legal battle and fierce opposition from Moscow. Escorted by [...]
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January 31, 2010
Job seekers attend an interview workshop in San Mateo, California The US$700-billion US government effort to rescue the financial system has failed to meet key goals such as sparking lending and curbing risky activities by banks, a special auditor said Sunday. The special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program said in a report [...]
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January 16, 2010
A moment of reflection at Hoa Lo Prison for a former American veteran who served during the Vietnam War While serving in South Vietnam in the early 1970s, 20-year-old marine Lester Newell told himself that if he ever got out of the war alive, he would come back to the country. Newell had earlier decided [...]
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