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Vietnam stages charity run for Agent Orange victims.
(From Agence France Presse)
More than 5,000 people took part in a charity run in the Vietnamese capital to raise funds for the child victims of Agent Orange, the defoliant sprayed by US forces during the Vietnam War.
The majority of those who participated in the run around Hanoi's Hoan Kiem Lake were high school and university students, but some 10 disabled or handicapped adults in wheelchairs also took part.
About 20 children suffering from diseases resulting from Agent Orange contamination watched the event, which was sponsored by Samsung, the South Korean electronics giant.
Between 1961 and 1971, the American and South Vietnamese armies ...
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