UXO clearance project kicks off in Huaphan The Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) Clearance Project in Huameuang district, Huaphan ...

She had come from a devastated section of Khammouan Province in central Laos, where many places remain so littered with unexploded ordnance (UXO) that it’s impossible to farm there. Because ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

VIENTIANE: Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone and his Japanese counterpart Ishiba Shigeru have exchanged congratulatory ...

WAIANAE, Hawaii (Mākua Military Reservation) –– As part of their routine missions U.S. Army Garrison Hawaii Natural Resource team successfully executed an unexploded ordnance (UXO ...

The cash crunch has hampered UXO clearance work in places heavily bombed by the United States air force – Laos and Vietnam – as well as neighbouring Cambodia, where instability in the wake of ...