Vietnam

DNA testing is used in specific police cases in Vietnam and in attempts to identify war dead and adopted children. In 2015, the FBI transferred DNA testing software to the Vietnam police. According to Interpol, Vietnam is planning a DNA database.

Resources

• External links
  • Operation Reunite: Adoptee DNA Project

• Press articles
  • Fast Company: The Quest To Identify Vietnam's Unknown Soldiers Pushes The Limits of DNA Technology (20th July 2016)
  • Fort Hood Herald: Legacies of war: 40 years after the fall of Saigon, soldiers’ children are still left behind (29th April 2015)
  • Washington Post: DNA matches child born in Vietnam, father in Texas after 40 years (18th April 2015)
  • International Business Times: Vietnam war babies still searching for birth parents 40 years on (2nd March 2015)
  • Thanh Nien News: FBI to transfer DNA testing software to Vietnam police (17th March 2015)
  • Thanh Nien News: HCMC demands DNA test for boy left in taxi (24th December 2014)
  • Vietnam Breaking News: DNA tests link war dead to families (28th August 2012)