Vietnam Reporting Project fellow and CBS5 anchor/reporter, Thuy Vu, traveled to Vietnam to report on the impact of Agent Orange on Vietnam, 35 years after the end of the war. Generations of Vietnamese continue to be born with birth defects and other illnesses believed to be the result of exposure to herbicide Agent Orange. For this work in Vietnam, Thuy Vu and her colleagues have received awards from several organizations including, the Asian American Journalists Association, the Associated Press Television-Radio Association’s Annual Mark Twain Awards, the National Headliner Award (Press Club of Atlantic City), the Radio-Television News Directors Association of Northern California, and from the Society of Professional Journalists, Northern California Chapter. To see more groundbreaking multimedia news coverage on the enduring environmental and health consequences of Agent Orange, please visit www.vietnamreportingproject.org

Make Agent Orange History is a collaborative effort to raise awareness of the long-term effects of Agent Orange in Vietnam, highlight solutions to the problem and connect individuals, foundations and non-governmental organizations with opportunities to get involved. Among the many pieces available on Make Agent Orange History is this short video on the legacy Agent Orange in Vietnam. For more information, please visit www.makeagentorangehistory.org

For More Information Contact: Janice Joseph at the Aspen Institute Agent Orange in Vietnam Program, 477 Madison Avenue Suite 730 New York, NY 10022. janice.joseph@aspeninstitute.org, 212 895-8000.