Thursday, August 9, 2012

Asia - Voice of America: US, Vietnam Launch Agent Orange Cleanup

Asia - Voice of America
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US, Vietnam Launch Agent Orange Cleanup
Aug 9th 2012, 12:51

HANOI — The United States and Vietnam's defense ministry have launched the first cleanup operation to rid a former air base of a toxic dioxin left from the Vietnam war. Although many people have welcomed the move, some say it is too little, too late to help generations of people suffering birth defects and diseases linked to the chemical. The project, which started Thursday, aims to clean up soil and sediment contaminated with dangerous levels of toxin dioxin at a former U.S. Army air base in ...

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