Conversations on Vietnam Development
The ceremony took place at Da Nang International Airport in central Vietnam with the participation of representatives from both countries.
Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam repatriates American soldier’s remains”
May 23, 2019
Readout of Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan’s Meeting With Vietnam Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh
Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick M. Shanahan met with Vietnam Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh at the Pentagon today to reaffirm the comprehensive partnership between the United States and Vietnam. Tiếp tục đọc “Readout of Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan’s Meeting With Vietnam Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh”
On March 26th the governments of the United States of America and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, in partnership with the United States Institute of Peace, hosted a landmark event examining the transformation from enemies to partners by the two countries since the end of the war in 1975.
U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy- Remarks
Ambassador Ha Kim Ngoc- Keynote Speech
A Vietnamese soldier next to a hazardous warning sign for dioxin contamination at Bien Hoa air base last October. KHAM/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
From 1962 to 1971, the American military sprayed vast areas of Vietnam with Agent Orange, leaving dioxin contamination that has severely affected the health of three generations of Vietnamese. Now, the U.S. and Vietnamese governments have joined together in a massive cleanup project.
In the thriving industrial city of Bien Hoa, about 20 miles east of Ho Chi Minh City, the former Saigon, there is a large air base, just beyond a sweeping bend in the Dong Nai River. During the American war in Vietnam, it was said to be the busiest airport in the world. Since the war ended in 1975, a dense cluster of four residential neighborhoods has grown up around the base. Their total population is perhaps 111,000, while the base itself, now home to advanced long-range fighter-bombers of the Vietnam People’s Air Force, has another 1,200 permanent residents. Tiếp tục đọc “Fifty Years After, A Daunting Cleanup of Vietnam’s Toxic Legacy”
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”
English after Vietnamese
Các nữ đại sứ thăm đội rà phá toàn nữ của RENEW-NPA
Project RENEW
Đội rà phá hiện trường giao tranh toàn nữ RENEW-NPA và bốn nữ đại sứ, hàng trước (từ trái qua phải Deborah Paul, Canada; Wendy Matthews, New Zealand; Grete Løchen, Na Uy; và Beatrice Maser Mallor, Thụy Sĩ). Hải Lăng, Quảng Trị, 09/5/2019. © Hien Ngo / RENEW-NPA.
Hải Lăng, Quảng Trị (9/5/2019) – Bốn nhà lãnh đạo của cộng đồng quốc tế ở Việt Nam, các nữ đại sứ của Thụy Sĩ, Na Uy, Canada, và New Zealand (được biết đến là Nhóm G4) tại Việt Nam, hôm thứ Năm đến Quảng Trị để xem một đội rà phá hiện trường toàn nữ làm việc.
Đoàn gồm có Đại sứ Deborah Paul (Canada), Wendy Matthews (New Zealand), Grete Løchen (Na Uy), và Beatrice Maser Mallor (Thụy Sĩ). Chuyến thăm chính thức dài hai ngày của họ là để trực tiếp tìm hiểu về hậu quả chiến tranh ở Quảng Trị, đặc biệt là nỗ lực đang diễn ra để khảo sát và rà phá bom mìn còn sót lại sau chiến tranh mà còn đe dọa cuộc sống của người dân địa phương. Các đại sứ cũng thăm các dự án phát triển do các nước nhóm G4 tài trợ. Tiếp tục đọc “Các nữ đại sứ thăm đội rà phá toàn nữ của RENEW-NPA – Women Ambassadors Visit RENEW-NPA’s All-Woman Clearance Team”
The toxic legacy of the Vietnam War
The US has launched a multi-million dollar clean-up operation at an air base in Vietnam it used to store the notorious chemical Agent Orange.
The ten-year programme, unveiled more than four decades after the end of the Vietnam War, will cost $183m (£141m).
The site at Bien Hoa airport, outside Ho Chi Minh City, is considered the most contaminated in the country. Tiếp tục đọc “Agent Orange: US to clean up toxic Vietnam War air base”
19/04/2019 11:40 GMT+7
The US Navy is planning two major visits to Vietnam this year as part of efforts to strengthen maritime relations between the two armies.
Vietnamese officials welcome US delegation on the visit of USS Carl Vinson to Danang in March 2018. Photo: Navytimes
The US “would welcome the opportunity for another aircraft carrier visit to Vietnam this year,” saying that the move shows the mutual respect that each nation has for each other and the depth of the two countries’ growing partnership, Commander of US Indo-Pacific Command Admiral Philip Davidson said at a press meeting in Ho Chi Minh City on April 18, VnExpress reported. Tiếp tục đọc “US plans warship visits to Vietnam this summer for enhanced maritime ties”
April 14, 2019
At age 30, Nguyen Thi Thuy has started in a job that everyone in Vietnam believed that only men could do. This mother of one daughter now leads an all-female clearance team of 16 members for clearing cluster munitions and other explosive remnants of war contaminated land in Quang Tri Province.
The youngest from a family of eight children in Gio Chau Commune, Gio Linh District, Nguyen Thi Thuy has been working with the Survey and Clearance Program of Project RENEW and Norwegian People’s Aid (RENEW-NPA) in Quang Tri Province since 2013.
Tiếp tục đọc “Meet the Team Leader of Vietnam’s First All-Female Clearance Team”
President of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO) Nguyen Phuong Nga (R) presents the Friendship Order to Susan Marie Hammond. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – President of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO) Nguyen Phuong Nga on April 16 presented the Friendship Order, a notable distinction of the Vietnamese State, to Executive Director of the War Legacies Project (WLP) Susan Marie Hammond.
Speaking at the ceremony, Nga said that this is one of the highest decorations that the Vietnamese state presents to individuals and organisations who have made significant contributions to the friendship between Vietnam and countries worldwide. Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam honours US woman for Agent Orange relief work”
4/17/2019 3:00:34 PM Thời Đại
At the meeting. Photo: VNF
The delegation consists of 10 assistants to US senators and congressmen from the Democrat and Republican parties on a working visit to Vietnam from April 12 to 20.
Tiếp tục đọc “VUFO leaders meet US Congressional Staff Delegation”
03/04/2019
Vietnam and the US have together marked the transformation from enemies to partners since the end of the war in 1975 by overcoming war legacies, among priorities in the bilateral ties.
US expert helps Vietnam settle unexploded odnance. Photo: PeaceTrees
Tackling war legacies has required both time and efforts that neither Hanoi nor Washington have been reluctant to do over the past decades, making the relationship a case study of foe-turned-friend. Tiếp tục đọc “How Vietnam, US heal wounds of war to build up comprehensive partnership”
Mỹ có thể sẽ gửi hàng không mẫu hạm thứ hai đến Việt Nam trong năm nay và cam kết giúp Hà Nội bảo vệ chủ quyền quốc gia giữa lúc Trung Quốc không ngừng các hoạt động quân sự hóa trên vùng Biển Đông có tranh chấp.
Trợ lý Bộ trưởng Quốc phòng Mỹ phụ trách các vấn đề an ninh khu vực Ấn Độ Dương-Thái Bình Dương Randall Schriver cho biết như vậy hôm 3/4 tại cuộc thảo luận làm thế nào để Mỹ và Việt Nam có thể thúc đẩy các mối quan hệ an ninh và quốc phòng chặt chẽ hơn tại Trung tâm Nghiên cứu Chiến lược và Quốc tế (CSIS) ở Washinhton. Tiếp tục đọc “Mỹ muốn đưa hàng không mẫu hạm thứ 2 đến Việt Nam trong năm nay”
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| Unexploded ordnance littered the forest floor in Hà Giang Province. — VNS File Photo |
HÀ GIANG — Residents of Thanh Thuỷ Commune in Vị Xuyên District said they are still occasionally startled by an explosion somewhere in the mountains nearby, a cruel reminder of a bloody border war 40 years ago.
They first prayed that no one gets hurt by stepping on the unexploded ordnance (UXO) buried in the terrain throughout the north-eastern uplands, especially the northernmost province of Hà Giang, where the bloodiest battles were waged.
Bồn Văn Hòn lives just 10km from the centre of Thanh Thuỷ Commune but the journey easily takes more than two hours.
Having lost both of his legs in two separate incidents related to unexploded bombs, Hòn uses his arms to move around
The changeable weather at this time of the year causes him major aches all over and he could no longer rely on crutches. Tiếp tục đọc “Unexploded bombs continue to haunt Hà Giang”
Kim, who last met with Trump in Singapore in 2018, could be traveling to Vietnam ahead of schedule in order to visit key industrial sites in Vietnam and hold a summit with Vietnamese President Nguyen Phu Trong, South Korean television network MBC reported. Tiếp tục đọc “Report: Kim Jong Un could tour Vietnam ahead of summit with Trump”
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