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Vietnam Aches for Its M.I.A.’s. Will America Stop Funding Science to Identify Them?

New breakthroughs in DNA analysis offer a chance to identify more of the lost from wars and disasters stretching back decades — if the U.S. helps.

Filling in the grave of an unidentified soldier after bone samples were collected at Tra Linh Cemetery in northern Vietnam.

How New DNA Science Could Help More Families of the Missing

Emerging methods are improving the ability to identify even highly degraded human remains.

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Researchers processing bone samples from an unidentified soldier missing in action collected at Tra Linh Cemetery in northern Vietnam, for DNA testing at the Center for DNA Identification at the Institute of Biotechnology of the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, in Hanoi, Vietnam.

U.S. Leaves Vietnam’s War Dead Unidentified

Damien Cave, the Vietnam bureau chief for The New York Times, takes us to a cemetery in northern Vietnam, where scientists are using innovative DNA analysis techniques to match unidentified Vietnamese soldiers with their living relatives before U.S.A.I.D. cuts defund the program.

Trump Says U.S. Has Reached Trade Deal With Vietnam

The president said he had agreed to initial trade terms with Vietnam, the second country to strike a limited deal after Mr. Trump threatened steep tariffs.

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U.S. imports from Vietnam have risen since President Trump’s first term, when he imposed hefty tariffs on China and manufacturers started searching for new locations for their overseas factories.
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