The United States has been a "key partner" and provided around $10 million a year to fund mine clearance in Cambodia, he said ...

Hopes that Cambodia will be free of landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXOs) by the end of this year have been dashed by US ...

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia has cleared and released 3,297 square km of land contaminated by all forms of explosive ordnances in the last 32 years, benefiting millions of rural people, a ...

Large swaths of land in Southeast Asia are littered with unexploded bombs dropped by American forces during the Vietnam War.

Some 4 million to 6 million land mines and other unexploded munitions are estimated to have littered Cambodia’s countryside during almost three decades of war and disorder that ended in 1998.

"Due to these challenges, we have decided to extend our mine/explosive remnant of war (ERW)-free goal to 2030," he added.

Due to previous civil wars, Cambodia is among the world’s most heavily land-mined countries with one ... concerns over pressing matters of illegal mine and explosives usage and committed to ...

Cambodia has halted mine clearance projects in eight provinces after the United States has frozen funding, a mine clearance chief said on Friday. Heng Ratana, director-general of the Cambodian ...

Chaker reiterated the UNDP’s commitment to supporting Cambodia’s mine action efforts, emphasising that mine clearance helps ...

More than 1,600sq km of contaminated land still needs to be cleared in Cambodia. While it had initially aimed to be mine-free by 2025, Mr Ly Thuch said Cambodia could not meet the goal because of ...

The explosion is terrifying. With half a grin, Aki Ra says, "One less land mine, one less child without a leg." In the warfare that raged in Cambodia from 1970 until 1998, all sides used land mines.

“This is the loss of professional officers who have contributed to the cause of peace, security and the developing of Cambodia and the people,” CMAC said in a statement. Some 4 million to 6 million ...