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The Việt Á scandal was a bribery and corruption scandal that arose during the COVID-19 pandemic in Vietnam. In 2020 and 2021, Việt Á Technology Corporation [ vi ] bribed Vietnamese government officials to sell COVID-19 RT-PCR tests , at a heavy mark-up to provincial health departments and hospitals.
Viet A had sold 4.5 million COVID-19 test kits in Vietnam during the pandemic at prices three times higher than their real cost and had illegally generated 1.23 trillion dong ($50.25 million), the ...
It is a famous example of "propaganda art" from the Vietnam War, [3] that uses a color photograph of the My Lai Massacre taken by U.S. combat photographer Ronald L. Haeberle on March 16, 1968. It shows about a dozen dead and partly naked South Vietnamese women and babies in contorted positions stacked together on a dirt road, killed by U.S. forces.
People's Army of Vietnam: Shelling of Cai Lay schoolyard: August 30, 1973 Cai Lậy District, Định Tường province: 32 killed Viet Cong: Re-education camps [8] 1945–1987 North Vietnam. South Vietnam. 26,000–232,000 Communist government of Vietnam (165,200 killed) Government of South Vietnam (65,000 killed) Tân Lập massacre [9 ...
Vietnam began mass coronavirus testing in the capital Hanoi, banned gatherings in its economic hub and urged tens of thousands of domestic travellers to report to authorities on Thursday, as the ...
Vietnam's government claimed that 400,000 people were killed or maimed as a result of after effects, and that 500,000 children were born with birth defects. [32] and studies have shown higher rates of casualties, health effects, and next-generation birth defects in Vietnamese peoples.
The Vietnam War body count controversy centers on the counting of enemy dead by the United States Armed Forces during the Vietnam War (1955–1975). There are issues around killing and counting unarmed civilians ( non-combatants ) as enemy combatants , as well as inflating the number of actual enemy who were killed in action (KIA).
Operation Tailwind was a covert incursion by a small unit of United States Army and allied Montagnard forces into southeastern Laos during the Vietnam War, conducted from 11 to 14 September 1970. Its purpose was to create a diversion for a Royal Lao Army offensive and to exert pressure on the occupation forces of the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN