Vietnam
Decades after humans in Vietnam were exposed to Agent Orange, the consequences of its contamination linger.
War decimated the landscape of Vietnam. The drastic economic times that followed drove Vietnam into the globalizing economy at lightning speed — and the country soon became the second largest...
Tu is 21 years old, and has just graduated from University studying agriculture.
We return from Ke village well after dark.
On this side of the Ca Tang River we're now in Ke village, home of about 70 Malieng families.
It's late morning, hot, cicadas are buzzing at full throttle already. Water buffaloes are slowly making their way down into the river. Dogs are sleeping in the shade beneath the bamboo.
The doubling of the price of rice in Asia has given rise to what some have coined "the Asian Food Crisis." While some economists feel that this is a temporary price hike, others see that the devast
The American Society of Journalists and Authors presented Christie Aschwanden with the 2008 Arlenes Award.
Rigorous scientific study of the effects of Agent Orange have been complicated by politics.
Reporter Christie Aschwanden reports from Hanoi, Vietnam on initial meetings with victims to explore the effects Agent Orange sprayed by U.S. military over Vietnam during the 1960s and 1970s.
In A Luoi Valley, Vietnam, Dioxin left from Agent Orange destroyed large swaths of ecosystem during the Vietnam War. While effects of Agent Orange remain pervasive, Phung Tuu Boi works to repair the...
Botanist Phung Tuu Boi has been restoring the forests of Vietnam that were destroyed during the war. Christie and George shot a video of Phung touring the highlands of central Vietnam.