Conversations on Vietnam Development
Vietnam and the U.S. have kickstarted the process of cleaning up the dioxin around Bien Hoa Airport, a heavily contaminated zone just outside Ho Chi Minh City.
The process formally began on Tuesday with the signing of a Memorandum of Intent between the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Military Science Department under Vietnam’s Ministry of Defense.
Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam, US begin Agent Orange cleanup at former wartime air base”
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English: 55 Years After Agent Orange Was Used In Vietnam, One Of Its Creators Is Thriving Here Monsanto đang bành chướng ở Việt Nam nơi họ đã góp phần tàn phá.
Cách đây 50 năm, quân đội Hoa Kỳ bắt đầu phun hàng triệu gallon chất độc được biết với tên chất da cam trên cácvùng rộng lớn phía Nam Việt Nam. Tuy nhiên, ngày nay, thay vì oán giận và cô lập với Hoa Kỳ, Việt Nam lại tràn ngập hội chứng sính Mỹ – Americanophilia. Tiếp tục đọc “Sau 55 năm, Monsanto nhà sản xuất chất độc da cam lại phát triển thịnh vượng tại Việt Nam.” |
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam ― Fifty-five years ago this month, the U.S. Army began spraying millions of gallons of the toxic defoliant known as Agent Orange over large swaths of southern Vietnam. Today, however, instead of resentment and isolation from the U.S., the country is awash with Americanophilia. Tiếp tục đọc “55 Years After Agent Orange Was Used In Vietnam, One Of Its Creators Is Thriving Here”
Trinh Tran Nam Dat spends his daily life on a bamboo mat in the middle of his home.
His father, Trinh Nam Khoa stays by him all day and night, not thinking of leaving him for a while for tens of years now. He himself is not well enough to work.
Dat’s grandfather was a former soldier. He died of cancer in 1998. His parents had no idea of Agent Orange until Dat was diagnosed cerebral palsy.
The faith of the children in AO victim families has been decided 56 years ago. However, until now there has not been any specific policy designated for the third generation victims.
Between 1961-1971, US troops sprayed some 80 million liters of defoliants over southern Vietnam, 44 million liters of which were Agent Orange. The later contained a total of nearly 370 kilograms of dioxin, the most poisonous toxin people have ever known. As many as 4.8 million Vietnamese people are exposed to AO/dioxin, of whom over 3 million are victims and hundreds of thousands of children are in the third and fourth generations. The agony lasts from generations to generations, bringing along the silent pain.
The move of the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs is imperative to pay tribute to generations of people who devoted themselves for the independence of the nation.
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VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam still has 240 pesticide-contaminated locations in 15 localities, causing serious and extremely serious pollution, according to the 2016 National Environment Report.
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| There are 240 chemical-contaminated spots nationwide. — VNA/VNS Photo Duy Hung |
The report was recently released by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE).
Twenty three of these untreated locations are located in urban areas.
Nghe An Province, central Viet Nam, tops the list of provinces and cities with 10 chemical-contaminated spots. Tiếp tục đọc “240 spots contaminated with pesticides remain in Vietnam”
Today the five international judges for the Monsanto Tribunal presented their legal opinion, which include key conclusions, both on the conduct of Monsanto and on the need for important changes to international laws governing multinational corporations.
The judges conclude that Monsanto has engaged in practices that have impinged on the basic human right to a healthy environment, the right to food and the right to health. Additionally, Monsanto’s conduct has a negative impact on the right of scientists to freely conduct indispensable research. Tiếp tục đọc “Monsanto Tribunal Judges Slam Monsanto over Violation of Human Rights”
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| Doing good: Richard Hughes and a boy who was part of the Shoeshine Boys project in Sài Gòn in the 1970s. Courtesy Photo of Dick Hughes. |
THỪA THIÊN- HUẾ — What started out as a gesture of good will has become Richard Hughes’ passion and destiny as he knocks on doors and crosses oceans in search of justice for Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange.
Richard “Dick” Hughes is an American actor who gained worldwide fame for forming a gang of Sài Gòn street boys during the Việt Nam-US war and living with them.
Wartime Việt Nam first impacted on the consciousness of the Pittsburgh-born actor when he was working at the Theatre Company of Boston, a year after his graduation from Boston University Graduate School of Drama in 1967. Tiếp tục đọc “US actor takes on cudgels on behalf of VN AO victims”
thediplomat_Some nights, the illuminated oval-shaped building hovering over a thick row of trees keeps Trinh Bui Kokkoris, 48, restless. Each time she looks out of the window from her apartment in Brooklyn Heights, the sight of the U.S. District Court reminds Trinh of the lawsuit she and her husband lost more than a decade ago with other Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange. Tiếp tục đọc “In Vietnam, the Ghost of Agent Orange Still Looms Large”
Thứ sáu, 08/07/2016, 07:39 (GMT+7)
(SGGP).- Tại buổi họp báo ngày 7-7 tại Hà Nội giới thiệu chuỗi hoạt động kỷ niệm 55 năm thảm họa da cam/dioxin ở Việt Nam (10-8-1961 – 10-8-2016). Thượng tướng Nguyễn Văn Rinh – Chủ tịch Hội Nạn nhân chất độc da cam/dioxin Việt Nam (VAVA) cho biết, Tiếp tục đọc “Hơn 100.000 nạn nhân da cam chưa được hưởng chính sách”
UPDATED : 07/24/2016 19:04 GMT + 7
A septuagenarian woman in the central Vietnamese province of Quang Binh has raised and taken care of her two disabled sons who are victims of Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin on her own for more than four decades.
Nguyen Van Hai, 44, and Nguyen Van Hien, 41, who are both victims of dioxin, have been in the loving care of their 73-year-old mother Tran Thi Dang, of Le Thuy District, in the last 44 years.
Tiếp tục đọc “In photos: Elderly Vietnamese woman devotes life to disabled sons”
21/7/2010 16:34.
VAST – Từ năm 1999 đến năm 2009, các nhà khoa học Viện Công nghệ Sinh học, Viện Khoa học Công nghệ Việt Nam đã nghiên cứu một số công nghệ để tẩy độc đất nhiễm nặng chất diệt cỏ/dioxin bằng phân hủy sinh học (bioremediation) ở căn cứ quân sự của Mỹ nguỵ cũ tại Đà Nẵng. Kết quả cho thấy ở các qui mô phòng thí nghiệm đến pilot hiện trường từ 0,5 – 100 m3 hiệu quả khử độc đạt từ 40 – 100 pgTEQ/ ngày.
Thi công xử lý ô nhiễm dioxin tại Đà Nẵng Tiếp tục đọc “Công nghệ tẩy độc đất nhiễm nặng chất diệt cỏ/dioxin bằng phân hủy sinh học”
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Chủ tịch nước Trần Đại Quang (phải) và Tổng thống Mỹ Barack Obama trong buổi họp báo chung hôm nay tại Hà Nội. Ảnh: Giang Huy. |
Theo thông cáo của cơ quan báo chí Nhà Trắng, sau cuộc hội đàm giữa Chủ tịch nước Trần Đại Quang và Tổng thống Mỹ Barack Obama hôm nay, hai bên thông qua Tuyên bố chung, khẳng định hai nước tiếp tục tăng cường quan hệ trong các lĩnh vực chính trị – ngoại giao, kinh tế, giao lưu nhân dân, an ninh – quốc phòng, nhân quyền và cải cách pháp lý, các thách thức khu vực và quốc tế cũng như thúc đẩy một mối quan hệ đối tác lâu dài.
Tiếp tục đọc “Việt – Mỹ cam kết thúc đẩy một loạt lĩnh vực trong tuyên bố chung”
Ngày 3/5, Đại sứ Mỹ tại Việt Nam, ngài Ted Osius và Thứ trưởng Bộ Quốc phòng Việt Nam, Thượng tướng Nguyễn Chí Vịnh đã cùng công bố kết quả xử lý thành công đất nhiễm dioxin tại sân bay Đà Nẵng, trong khuôn khổ dự án được Bộ Quốc phòng Việt Nam và USAID quản lý. Phó Thủ tướng Vũ Đức Đam đã đến dự.
Tiếp tục đọc “45.000 m3 đất sân bay Đà Nẵng được tẩy sạch dioxin”
LM – Project RENEW established a mobile outreach program to provide prostheses, orthotics and education to explosive remnants of war survivors in the remote communities of Vietnam.
Susan Eckey, Former Deputy Director General for Humanitarian Affairs, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, visits with the P&O team.
Photo courtesy of Dang Quang Toan/Project RENEW.
According to a 2014 report compiled by Vietnam’s Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, Quang Tri province currently has 37,292 persons with disabilities, 13,023 of whom were disabled by Agent Orange and 5,094 by explosive remnants of war (ERW).1,2,3 Disabled persons living in rural areas often live in poverty and do not have access to basic services. For those with injuries resulting from unexploded ordnance (UXO), prosthetics are difficult to obtain. Tiếp tục đọc “Project RENEW’s Prosthetics and Orthotics Mobile Outreach Program”
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