Letter to UN Secretary General seeks support for Vietnamese Agent Orange victims

Following a letter to American President George Bush on October 1, Len Aldis, Secretary of the Britain-Vietnam Friendship Society, has sent another letter to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, calling for support for Vietnamese Agent Orange/dioxin victims.

A golden heart for disabled children

She is at a disadvantage in comparison with other ordinary women. She is suffering from uncoagulated blood and a shortage in brain circulation blood as after-effects of Agent Orange from her father, a war veteran.

Blind girl overcomes fate with determination to study

Even friends and relatives of Thanh Mai, a shy girl from a rural area in northern Viet Nam who has been blind since very small, could not imagine several years ago that one day she would become an outstanding student at a US university.