Chuyên mục: Legacy of the War

Two UXO call-ins from local people lead RENEW teams to dangerous munitions caches left from the war

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Project RENEW

Hai Lang, Trieu Phong Districts, Quang Tri (22 October 2015)

On Tuesday local Quang Tri residents made two urgent phone calls to Project RENEW’s hotline to report their discovery of wartime ordnance, and to ask for assistance.

35-year-old Hoang Van Ty, a villager in Trieu Van Commune of Trieu Phong District, was preparing land to build a temple in the village cemetery when he encountered unexploded ordnance (UXO).  He reported the discovery immediately to commune military officer Nguyen Van Lam, who used his mobile phone to call to Project RENEW. Tiếp tục đọc “Two UXO call-ins from local people lead RENEW teams to dangerous munitions caches left from the war” →

‘Chưa hề thấy dự án TQ chống sốt rét’

~ Trần Đình Hoành ~ Bình luận về bài viết này
    Bài cùng chuỗi:
    – Nobel Prize goes to modest woman who beat malaria for China
    – Bà Đồ U U và ‘thuốc chữa bộ đội VN’
    – For Vietnam: Artemisinin From China, Agent Orange From America
    – ‘Chưa hề thấy dự án TQ chống sốt rét’

 

BBC

13 tháng 10 2015 Cập nhật lúc 20:24 ICT

Đã không có hợp tác giữa Trung Quốc với Việt Nam để giúp miền Bắc Việt Nam điều trị hoặc nghiên cứu chống bệnh sốt rét trong thời kì chiến tranh, theo lời một nhân chứng, cựu chuyên gia chống sốt rét của Bắc Việt.

Một phần giải Nobel y học 2015 được trao cho nhà khoa học Trung Quốc, bà Đồ U U, nhờ chiết xuất được Thanh hao tố (Artemisinin) dùng để chữa bệnh sốt rét từ cây thanh hao hoa vàng. Tiếp tục đọc “‘Chưa hề thấy dự án TQ chống sốt rét’” →

Bà Đồ U U và ‘thuốc chữa bộ đội VN’

~ Trần Đình Hoành ~ Bình luận về bài viết này
    Bài cùng chuỗi:
    – Nobel Prize goes to modest woman who beat malaria for China
    – Bà Đồ U U và ‘thuốc chữa bộ đội VN’
    – For Vietnam: Artemisinin From China, Agent Orange From America
    – ‘Chưa hề thấy dự án TQ chống sốt rét’

      BBC

  • 6 tháng 10 2015
 Image copyright AFP

Một chương trình bí mật do Mao Trạch Đông cho lập ra để tìm thuốc chống sốt rét cho quân đội Bắc Việt Nam thời chiến tranh giúp bà Đồ U U được giải Nobel Y học 2015, theo báo Anh.

Là giáo sư Học viện Y học Cổ truyền Trung Quốc, bà Đồ U U, 84 tuổi, là người thứ ba nhận giải Nobel Y học năm nay, cùng nhà khoa học William Campbell, người Cộng hòa Ireland và giáo sư Satoshi Omura từ Nhật Bản. Tiếp tục đọc “Bà Đồ U U và ‘thuốc chữa bộ đội VN’” →

For Vietnam: Artemisinin From China, Agent Orange From America

~ Trần Đình Hoành ~ Bình luận về bài viết này
    Bài cùng chuỗi:
    – Nobel Prize goes to modest woman who beat malaria for China
    – Bà Đồ U U và ‘thuốc chữa bộ đội VN’
    – For Vietnam: Artemisinin From China, Agent Orange From America
    – ‘Chưa hề thấy dự án TQ chống sốt rét’

October 9, 2015

by John Walsh

Four-ship formation on a defoliation spray run. (U.S. Air Force photo)       Operation Ranch Hand, spraying Agent Orange over Vietnam.

One half of this year’s Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine went to Tu Youyou for her discovery of the antimalarial drug artemisinin. Many of us who do research in the biological sciences have felt that this award was long overdue.

The discovery of artemisinin has saved the lives of millions. And so the Nobel is proper recognition for Dr. Tu, for China and for the advancing role of women in science here and around the world.

There is an interesting and illuminating back story to Dr. Tu’s discovery. India’s The Hindu relates the story here:

(In the 1960s North Vietnam and the Vietcong were were at war with the U.S. which had launched a massive invasion, and malaria was rampant in the region. jw) Struggling to deal with a malaria-ridden army, Vietnamese Prime Minister Ho Chi Minh requested Chairman Mao to establish a secret military research programme to look for a cure for malaria within the traditional Chinese medicine. Project 523 (as it began on May 23) began its search for a cure in 1967. It was officially shut down in 1981.

Mao’s prompting led to Tu’s discovery Tiếp tục đọc “For Vietnam: Artemisinin From China, Agent Orange From America” →

A triple amputee who overcame tragedy and built a new life

~ Phạm Thu Hương ~ 1 bình luận
landmines.org.vn – Trieu Phong, Quang Tri Province, 10 September 2015 – On the road that leads to Ai Tu Village of Trieu Ai Commune, a man is hurrying home on his three-wheel bike.  He has finished tending his cows, and now he’s coming home to have lunch with his family.  He’s bringing fruit he just bought at the market.

As his wife prepares lunch, 44-year-old Hoang Than talks with his two children, 9-year-old son Hoang Anh and 6-year-old daughter Hoang Thi Dieu Anh, about their first day at school. The kids just started school after their summer break. The photo above is a picture of happiness, father and children together.

However, it was not always this way.  Than has overcome much tragedy in his life. Tiếp tục đọc “A triple amputee who overcame tragedy and built a new life” →

When the U.S. dropped barrel bombs in war

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Washington Post
By Ishaan Tharoor February 16

People inspect damage at a site hit by what activists said were barrel bombs dropped by forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo’s district of al-Sukari on March 7, 2014. (Hosam Katan/Reuters)

“It’s a childish story that keeps repeating in the West,” smiled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, in an interview with the BBC last week. He was dismissing allegations that his regime is attacking Syrian civilians with barrel bombs, crude devices packed with fuel and shrapnel that inflict brutal, indiscriminate damage. Tiếp tục đọc “When the U.S. dropped barrel bombs in war” →

Young woman, big responsibility

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Eight months ago Ms. Nguyen Thi Dieu Linh was promoted to Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) Operations Manager at Project RENEW in Quang Tri Province.  The 32-year-old is the first woman to be selected for this position in Vietnam.  Linh now manages 160 technicians and support staff who make up 26 teams that are deployed every day.  Team members map confirmed hazardous areas for clearance and provide EOD response to safely dispose of cluster munitions and unexploded ordnance throughout the province. Linh spoke with Ngo Xuan Hien and Chuck Searcy.   Tiếp tục đọc “Young woman, big responsibility” →

The Lethal Legacy of the Vietnam War

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Fifty years after the first US troops came ashore at Da Nang, the Vietnamese are still coping with unexploded bombs and Agent Orange.

By George Black
The Nation
February 25, 2015

On a mild, sunny morning last November, Chuck Searcy and I drove out along a spur of the old Ho Chi Minh Trail to the former Marine base at Khe Sanh, which sits in a bowl of green mountains and coffee plantations in Vietnam’s Quang Tri province, hard on the border with Laos. The seventy-seven-day siege of Khe Sanh in early 1968, coinciding with the Tet Offensive, was the longest battle of what Vietnamese call the American War and a pivotal event in the conflict. By the off-kilter logic of Saigon and Washington, unleashing enough technology and firepower to produce a ten-to-one kill ratio was a metric of success, but the televised carnage of 1968, in which 16,592 Americans died, was too much for audiences back home. After Tet and Khe Sanh, the war was no longer America’s to win, only to avoid losing. Tiếp tục đọc “The Lethal Legacy of the Vietnam War” →

Mine Action Alert: Wartime ordnance explosion kills farmer, father of three, near the former DMZ

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IMG_9320Le Huu Ha’s three children, 8-year-old Le Thi Hang at left holding 14-month-old baby sister Le Thi Thuy Trang, and their 12-year-old brother Le Huu Huy, stand by their father’s funeral altar.

Project RENEW
Gio Linh, Quang Tri (25 June 2015)

An explosion of wartime ordnance on Tuesday afternoon killed a 42-year-old farmer and father of three young children in Trung Son Commune of Gio Linh District, Quang Tri Province.  The exact circumstances of the tragedy are unknown.

Tiếp tục đọc “Mine Action Alert: Wartime ordnance explosion kills farmer, father of three, near the former DMZ” →