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‘Leaves Keep Falling’ selected for Artivist Film Festival

The 15-minute film by Julie Winokur and VRP fellow Ed Kashi, has been selected for Artivist Film Festival and has received an award in the category of “Environmental Preservation.”

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Nick Ut receives AAJA Lifetime Achievement Award

Vietnam Reporting Project fellow Nick Ut is the recipient of the Asian American Journalists Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award, the organization’s highest individual honor.

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Karnow wins gold at Prix de la Photographie

Vietnam Reporting Project fellow Catherine Karnow has been awarded a gold medal for her Agent Orange photo series in the “Professional, Press-Features” category by the Prix de la Photographie. The “Prix de la Photographie, Paris” (Px3) strives to promote the appreciation of photography, to discover emerging talent, and to introduce photographers from around the world […]

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Vietnam-US joint venture to clean up Agent Orange underway

The Associated Press reported on Friday that Vietnam has begun sweeping for ordinances around the Da Nang airbase once occupied by the US military. This marks the first phase of a joint plan with the US to clean up environmental damage caused by the chemical defoliant Agent Orange, a lasting legacy of the Vietnam war. […]

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VTimes Series on Agent Orange

During 2010, VTimes, a San Jose-based Vietnamese-language weekly, published a series of articles and columns about Agent Orange in Vietnam. Vietnam Reporting Project fellows Henry Liem and Duc Ha, along with VRP editor De Tran, reported the following stories.  

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Photographs of Heather Bowser

William (Bill) Morris was drafted for the Vietnam War in 1967. He sent this photograph to his wife Sharon in 1968. “He went to Vietnam thinking of it as an adventure,” Sharon said. “Then reality set in. All he wanted to do was stay alive and get home.”

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Student Projects

In Ho Chi Minh City, organizations work hard to assist the growing number of Vietnamese disabled by disease, accidents or exposure to Agent Orange.

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The Leaves Keep Falling

An intimate portrait of two Vietnamese families whose children are severely disabled due to exposure to the dioxin in Agent Orange. Video by Ed Kashi, stills by Catherine Karnow.

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Agent Orange: A Terrible Legacy

An audio slideshow by Vietnam Reporting Project fellow Catherine Karnow.

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Photographs of the Tan Family

  By Catherine Karnow Photographer Ed Kashi and I visited Danang, Vietnam in July 2010. Assisted by Chidren of Vietnam, an agency which provides care to Vietnamese children with disabilities, we met and photographed the Tan family, whose children suffered from the effect of Agent Orange.

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