PHNOM PENH, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- An ongoing China-aided landmine elimination project has cleared over 150 square kilometers of land contaminated with mines and explosive remnants of war (ERWs) in ...
AN ongoing China-aided landmine elimination project has cleared over 150sq km of land contaminated with mines and explosive remnants of war (ERWs) in Cambodia, benefiting about 2.5 million people, a ...
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 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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
After five years of sniffing out land mines in Cambodia, Magawa is retiring. The African giant pouched rat has been the most successful rodent trained and overseen by a Belgian nonprofit ...