VIENTIANE: Over the past three months, Lao and Russian military bomb disposal experts have removed 285 items of unexploded ...

Al Jazeera looks back at the most devastating period in Laos’s history, when the US waged a years-long ‘Secret War’.

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 ...

The United States has suspended its support for global landmine clearing operations, prompting warnings from de-mining charities that the pause will lead to avoidable deaths.

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 ...

The U.S. government’s 90-day suspension of foreign aid has forced Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) to lay off 1,700 employees, ...

VIENTIANE: The Embassy of the Republic of Korea on Thursday (Feb 6) hosted an Official Development Assistance (ODA) seminar ...

Quang Tri Province, a battlefield during the Vietnam War, is facing setbacks in its efforts to clear unexploded ordnance (UXO ...

Efforts to clear mines and munitions from parts of the Mekong region blanket bombed by American forces during the Vietnam war ...