2025 was an incredibly significant year for Vietnam-US relations, marked by a series of major anniversaries and substantive advances across multiple areas of cooperation, US Ambassador to Vietnam Marc E. Knapper said in a recent interview with the Vietnam News Agency.
A conference reviewing 10 years of implementing the Directive of the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat on strengthening the Party's leadership in dealing with the consequences of toxic chemicals used by the US during the war in Vietnam was held in Hanoi on December 10 by the Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange/dioxin (VAVA).
According to Nakamura, the AO issue in Vietnam has certain similarities to the atomic bomb tragedies in Japan’s Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. However, the AO tragedy is barely known to the world, including to the American public.
The Jazz Bond Association, “Tieng To Dong” band, and the Friendship Village Van Canh/Vietnam branch in France co-organised a charity concert to raise funds for Vietnamese Agent Orange/dioxin child victims in Le Perreux-sur-Marne, a suburb of Paris.
The show in Hanoi also aims to raise awareness about war, the defoliant agent and its harmful effects on people, still being felt today.
The Japanese Government-funded equipment for dioxin and environmental analysis was handed over to the Chemical Corps on January 16, aiming to assist Vietnam in settling consequences of toxic chemicals left from wartime.
Immediately following the Paris Court of Appeal's decision on August 22 to reject the civil lawsuit filed by Tran To Nga, an 82-year-old French-Vietnamese, against 14 US chemical companies for supplying Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin to the US army during the Vietnam War, many French media outlets have reiterated her decades-long arduous and challenging fight for justice.
The Paris Court of Appeal's rejection of the lawsuit filed by Tran To Nga against US manufacturers of Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin is not a surprise for the French-Vietnamese woman, who said she will not give up but continue to pursue this lawsuit.
A solemn ceremony was held in the northern city of Hai Phong on August 10 to disperse the ashes of Merle Ratner, a leftist and anti-war activist of the US and also a close friend of Vietnam.
Despite the three previous rejections by courts in the US, the Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange/ Dioxin (VAVA) is suing US chemical companies that supported the US military to spray AO/dioxin in Vietnam during wartime, VAVA Vice President Maj. Gen. Nguyen Hong Son said on July 30.
Ruling on the lawsuit filed by Vietnamese-French Tran To Nga against 14 US chemical corporations that supplied Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin for the US army during the war in Vietnam is scheduled to be issued on August 22, the Court of Appeal of Paris announced after a hearing on May 7.
