A Vietnamese soldier stands next to a hazardous warning sign by a runway at Bien Hoa air base, on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City, as US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis visits the former US air base on 17 October, 2018. (Photo: Thomas...
Agent Orange News
First Civilian Case Against Companies Who Made the Poison Agent Orange Used in Vietnam War Begins
A French court this week started hearing the first civilian case against manufacturers of Agent Orange , a herbicide used by the United States against communist troops during the Vietnam War. Tran To Nga, who worked as a journalist during...
Agent Orange Exposure Doubles Risk of Developing Dementia, Study Finds
A new study of more than 300,000 Vietnam-era U.S. veterans has found that those who were exposed to Agent Orange are nearly twice as likely to develop dementia as those who were not. The new finding, published Monday in JAMA Neurology ,...
Agent Orange Won’t Go Away—in Vietnam, or the Courts
An old friend got hauled into court in France recently. Agent Orange, the defoliant in which the United States soaked Southeast Asia during our decades of making war there, is what scientists call a "persistent agent," and persistent...
French-Vietnam woman in ‘fight of her life’ on war chemicals
Tran To Nga was poisoned with ‘agent orange’ during the Vietnam War, and her case against 26 multinational chemical companies starts in France today The court case brought by Tran To Nga opens in Évry, Essonne today, in what she hopes...
Agent Orange trial opens as woman seeks ‘historic’ ruling as first Vietnamese civilian victim
Tran To Nga worked as a journalist and activist in Vietnam in her 20s - Julien Falsimagne Fourteen multinationals went on trial on Monday accused of causing grievous harm to a French -Vietnamese woman by selling Agent Orange to the US...