$300m price tag on Agent Orange clean-up

A joint US-Vietnamese action plan today put a $300m (€244m) price tag on the most contentious legacy still tainting relations between the two countries – Agent Orange.

Thirty-five years after the Vietnam War, a joint working group called for the first time on the US government and other donors to provide about $30m (€24m) annually over 10 years to clean up sites still contaminated by dioxin, a toxic chemical used in the defoliant.