(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.