Posts Tagged ‘ Vietnam war ’

Monsanto’s GM crop debate reopens Agent Orange wounds 

January 16, 2012
Monsanto’s GM crop debate reopens Agent Orange wounds 

  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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Unexploded war bombs found in Vietnam capital 

December 23, 2011
Unexploded war bombs found in Vietnam capital 

A bomb from the Vietnam War detected in Hanoi on Tuesday. Soldiers are handling two big unexploded bombs that have recently been discovered in Hanoi, Tien Phong quoted the High Command of the capital as saying on Thursday. According to the newspaper, one of the bombs was unearthed Tuesday when workers were upgrading the Dinh [...]

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UXO decontamination in Vietnam an uphill task 

December 14, 2011
UXO decontamination in Vietnam an uphill task 

  An unexploded bomb unearthed in the garden of a resident’s house in the north-central province of Quang Tri, which has recorded the highest number of deaths and injuries caused by unexploded bombs and landmines The Americans lost 58,000 lives in the Vietnam War. Vietnamese have lost 42,000 lives to the war after it ended [...]

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Explosion kills one, injures 10 at Vietnam military depot 

September 24, 2011
Explosion kills one, injures 10 at Vietnam military depot 

Victims of a military zone explosion treated at a Da Nang hospital Monday. A mortar shell exploded at a ammunition depot in central Vietnam Monday, killing a soldier and injuring ten others who were attempting to defuse it.   The accident happened at around 8.30 am in Da Nang City, which is part of Vietnam’s [...]

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Vietnam War bomb kills two scrap collectors 

September 18, 2011
Vietnam War bomb kills two scrap collectors 

The scene of an explosion that killed two scrap collectors in central Vietnam. The pair were attempting to cut up a Vietnam War era bomb. A Vietnam War-era bomb exploded and killed two men who were cutting it up for scrap metal in the central Vietnamese province of Phu Yen last Friday, the Dan Tri [...]

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TV series to present new information on Vietnam's wars since 19th century 

September 4, 2011
TV series to present new information on Vietnam's wars since 19th century 

A UH-1D helicopter used by American soldiers during the Vietnam War (1954-1975) A new documentary film project on wars Vietnam has had to fight since the 19th century will feature hitherto unused information taken from archival records, it was announced in Ho Chi Minh City on Sep 1.   The film project, titled Chien tranh Vietnam [...]

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‘Ignorant’ filmmaker brings Agent Orange plight to light 

August 28, 2011
‘Ignorant’ filmmaker brings Agent Orange plight to light 

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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Vietnam beware! 

August 14, 2011
Vietnam beware! 

  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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Festering wound 

August 9, 2011
Festering wound 

  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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Compensation for war victims is long overdue 

July 23, 2011
Compensation for war victims is long overdue 

  The Agent Orange issue is about much more than scientific evidence An Agent Orange victim carries food for lunch at a hospice in Vietnam’s central Da Nang City. The US and Vietnam launched the first concrete step toward cleaning up contamination from Agent Orange last month, in what the top US diplomat in the [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...