All Vietnam articles

  • A military plane spraying liquid over a forested area
    Research

    The toxic legacy of Agent Blue

    2025-01-08T09:30:00Z

    Agent Orange’s history in Vietnam is well known but one scientist is trying to raise the profile of another pesticide used during the war

  • A UH- 1D helicopter from the 336th Aviation Company sprays a agent orange on a dense jungle area in the Mekong delta - Illustration
    Podcast

    Cacodyl

    2019-01-25T14:30:00Z

    It made Robert Bunsen seriously ill, Michael Faraday thought it 'barbaric' to use in battle and even Fritz Haber – the 'father of chemical warfare' – abandoned it after a fatal accident in his lab. This week, Mike Freemantle tells the story of tetramethyldiarsine, otherwise known as cacodyl.

  • Hypodermic needle with liquid drop
    News

    The latest lethal injection row explained

    2018-01-04T09:00:00Z

    Two US states plan to use untried drugs to execute prisoners

  • A satellite image of Southeast Asia
    Business

    Asia’s age of regulation

    2017-09-07T15:07:00Z

    Safety legislation and data sharing in Asia is making progress but highlights a global challenge

  • US military sprayed more than 40 million litres of dioxin contaminated Agent Orange on forested areas in South Vietnam between 1962 and 1971
    News

    Toxic legacy of Agent Orange lives on in Vietnam

    2016-06-03T00:00:00Z

    Scientists are struggling to clean up dioxin-contaminated soil that has been linked to devastating illnesses among thousands of people