Video, Slide Show and presentations: report from a recent study tour
Vietnam today is bustling, colorful, spirited and changing into something new. 
A 16-person national study tour visited the country in Jan. 2009 hosted by the Vietnam Women's Union. The group learned about the VWU, a 13-million member grassroots organization that has considerable influence on national policy. The legacies of war was another theme as a US Vietnam vet met with three former NLF fighters in a moving encounter.
The remaining sore spot with the Vietnamese on the war is the issue of the use of agent orange/dioxin with three million victims and continued birth defects, a fact the US government has never acknowledged. Vietnamese experts also lectured about the strategy for development, the socialist market economy.
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