(VOV) -Heartbreaking portraits of the everyday struggle and horrifying effects Agent Orange victims continue to suffer some 40 years after the US war are the inspiration for a photo exhibition opened in HCM City on August 8.

(VOV) -Despite the conflict ending in 1971 – four decades on – Vietnamese are still suffering from the devastating effects of Agent Orange sprayed on crops, plants and trees by US military forces.

(VOV) - Roche Vietnam Co., Ltd has donated a number of reagents for identification testing with the new DNA assessment technology on new generation of sequencing system to the Vietnam Martyrs' Family Support Association (VMFSA) on the 67th anniversary of Vietnam's War Invalids and Martyrs Day (July 27). 

(VOV) - Tay Ninh province and the Military Zone 7 High Command held a ceremony on July 25 to lay in their final resting place the remains of 206 volunteer soldiers killed in the war in Cambodia.

(VOV) -The Mine Advisory Group (MAG) – a not-for-profit organisation clearing landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and other remnants – will provide US$3.9 million for a landmine clearance project (5th phase) in the central province of Quang Binh.

A ceremony was held at the Xa Mat international border gate in Tan Bien district, southern Tay Ninh province on June 30 to welcome home 143 sets of remain of Vietnamese volunteer soldiers who died in Cambodia during wartime.

A ceremony was held at Da Nang International Airport on June 22 to repatriate the possible remains of three US servicemen who died during the war in Vietnam.

(VOV) - The Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin (VAVA) has voiced its strong support for a Vietnamese born French national’s lawsuit against US chemical firms.

(VOV) - The first meeting of the Experts’ Working Group (EWG) on Humanitarian Mine Actions,  under the cooperative framework of the ASEAN Defense Ministers’ Meeting (ADMM+) Plus, will take place in Hanoi from June 17-20. 

A memorial house to commemorate Vietnamese and Lao soldiers who laid down their lives in Laos during wartime was inaugurated in the country’s central province of Khammouan on May 29.

(VOV) -On May 27, the Vietnam Association for the Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin (VAVA) received a US$10,000 donation from Maggie Brooks – a Swiss citizen – in support of local victims.

(VOV) - Dak Lak province on May 9 returned the remains of 16 Vietnamese soldiers who sacrificed their life in Cambodia during the past war to their homeland.

The southern province of An Giang is working hard to promote the search and retrieval of soldiers’ remains, both at home and abroad, in the period of 2014-2020. 

(VOV) - The US Agency for International Development (USAID) is working closely with localities to support disabled people, including dioxin victims, in accessing new treatment and reintegrating into society.

(VOV) - A US Senate delegation led by Senate President pro tempore Patrick Leahy visited and presented gifts to disadvantaged people, including victims of dioxin, in the central city of Danang on April 19.

(VOV) - Paul Reed, a Vietnam War veteran, returned a wartime diary he had kept since the 1960s to its author, a Vietnamese soldier, and said the book helped him escape the haunting ghost of an unjust war. 

(VOV) -Vietnamese Deputy Defence Minister Nguyen Chi Vinh and US Senate President Pro Tempore Patrick Leahy launched a thermal treatment system of a dioxin remediation project at Danang airport in central Vietnam on April 19.

A delegation of Ho Chi Minh City’s Party Committee led by its Deputy Secretary Nguyen Thi Thu Ha on April 11 paid a floral tribute to martyr Pham Hong Thai at his grave in Huang Hua Gang Memorial Park in China’s Guangzhou city.

(VOV) -A Vietnamese delegation led by Deputy Defence Minister Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Chi Vinh paid a visit to Australia to strengthen bilateral cooperation in overcoming the consequences of unexploded ordnance (UXO) left from wars.

(VOV) -A 450kg bomb, 1.5m in length, was discovered in Van Yen district in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai on April 3.

A repatriation ceremony for remains of US servicemen who died during the war in Vietnam was held at the Danang International Airport in the central city of Da Nang on April 2.

Domestic and foreign experts have highly valued the Vietnamese Government’s efforts in introducing mine action policies, especially its initiative to establish a mine action partnership group, according to Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen The Phuong.

(VOV) -Development partners at a March 14 conference were resolute in their commitment to provide Vietnam technical and financial assistance, share experiences and support victims of post-war unexploded ordnance (UXO).

(VOV) - Decades after the end of the US war, an abundance of unexploded ordnance (UXO) remain scattered across the nation, a legacy posing a continuous threat of exploding, expected to take Vietnam centuries to clear. 

(VOV) - Since 1999, the central province of Quang Tri has removed more than 130,000 explosive devices and 2,500 landmines left over from the war.

(VOV) - Scientists have examined additional legal evidence to support the Vietnamese lawsuit against US chemical companies, asking them to admit accountability for the consequences of Agent Orange/dioxin in Vietnam. 

(VOV) - More dioxin-contaminated spots have been discovered at Bien Hoa Airport in the southern province of Dong Nai, a seminar heard in Hanoi on March 10. 

The Danang Association for Victims of Agent Orange (AO)/Dioxin on February 20 inaugurated a detoxification and rehabilitation centre for AO victims, the first of its kind in the central city of Danang.

The office of the national steering board on the consequences of toxic chemicals during the war in Vietnam (Office 33) should expand collaboration with such traditional partners as Japan and the Republic of Korea to boost international cooperation. 

(VOV) - More than VND450 million was raised at a Vietnam-Republic of Korea cultures and arts exchange in the Mekong delta city of Vinh Long City on December 17.