The people of Laos have utilised the metal from UXO for the past 30 years. In Phonsavan, the fences of peoples' houses are made of shell casings. Unexploded cluster bombs are also forged into axes ...

The Cambodia-based ASEAN Regional Mine Action Center (ARMAC) hosted a national consultative workshop on support for the victims of unexploded ordnance (UXO) in neighbouring Laos. Held in partnership ...

With approximately 30 percent of the cluster bombs dropped by the US failing to detonate, tens of millions of unexploded ordnance (UXO) remain buried in Lao soil. Since 1964, an estimated 50,000 ...

VIENTIANE: Over the past three months, Lao and Russian military bomb disposal experts have removed 285 items of unexploded ordnance (UXO) from a planned total area of 187,180 square metres ...

Complicating matters is that the rural areas are heavily contaminated by unexploded ordnances (UXO) left from the Vietnam War. Laos is the most bombed nation in the world, and as a result ...