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Landmines UXO and demining

India gifts canines for mine clearance

The Indian government has given 15 dogs to the Kingdom along with a promise to train personnel to work with the furry friends on mine-clearance projects, according to an official press release. ...

San Bunsim
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26896/india-gifts-canines-for-mine-clearance/

UXO found in three different provinces

Dozens of pieces of unexploded ordnance and hundreds of AK-47 bullets have been found on farmland in three provinces in recent days and handed over for disposal, according to local authorities yesterday. ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/uxo-found-three-different-provinces

Over 100 explosives cleared out in Kandal

Government deminers on Saturday successfully cleared more than 100 US-made cluster bomblets from a rice field in Kandal province’s Muk Kampoul district, according to the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC). ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/over-100-explosives-cleared-out-kandal

Cambodia should sign the convention on cluster munitions

There are very few weapons in the world that are as universally condemned as cluster munitions.   ...

Kingdom leads in mine removal

With its new Asean Regional Mine Action Centre (ARMAC), Cambodia is prepared to assist other Asean nations clear mines and unexploded ordnances (UXO) in formerly war-torn areas, according to officials. ...

Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25522/kingdom-leads-in-mine-removal/

Three killed in UXO explosion

An elderly man and his two grandchildren were killed after he accidentally detonated an artillery shell yesterday morning in Prey Veng province’s Preah Sdach district, after attempting to dismantle it to create parts for his bullock cart, according to police. ...

Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25327/three-killed-in-uxo-explosion/

Pursat demining death caused by use of incorrect equipment

A deminer killed in Pursat province late last month was using the “wrong tool” while clearing an area of land in the infamous K-5 minefield when he detonated an anti-personnel landmine, according to a preliminary investigation by HALO Trust, the NGO for which he worked. ...

Peter Ford
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pursat-demining-death-caused-by-use-of-incorrect-equipment-112460/

Boys killed after grenade launcher explodes

Three boys were killed in Oddar Meanchey province on Friday after a grenade launcher they were playing with exploded, officials said.   ...

Buth Kimsay
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/boys-killed-after-grenade-launcher-explodes-112296/

Cambodian deminers meet Thai counterparts

Senior officials from Thailand’s Mine Action Centre are visiting their counterparts in Cambodia this week in an effort to develop stronger bilateral cooperation to clear landmines along the Cambodian-Thai border.   ...

Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodian-deminers-meet-thai-counterparts

UXO stockpile discovered in Oddar Meanchey

A cache of anti-tank weapons, including mines and rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) were discovered by authorities near the Cambodia-Thai border in Oddar Meanchey province’s Trapaing Prasat district on Tuesday, according to officials. ...

Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23422/uxo-stockpile-discovered-in-oddar-meanchey/

Second US bomb unearthed in Kandal this month

A routine morning of planting vegetables and trees was interrupted on Sunday when a group of farmers in Kandal province’s Saang district unearthed a 227 kilogram, US-made MK82 bomb left over from the country’s war, according to police. ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23296/second-us-bomb-unearthed-in-kandal-this-month/

Forest fire detonates UXOs at Preah Vihear

A forest fire near the Preah Vihear temple complex caused decades-old landmines and other unexploded ordnance to explode on Sunday, according to regional military commander Duong Sam Neang.   ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/forest-fire-detonates-uxos-preah-vihear

Japan: helping Cambodia clean up its landmines

Near the Thai border, in the Bovel district of Battambang province, today children can safely play outside. But not that long ago, what is now the local primary school’s playground was littered with dozens of mines. ...

Euronews team
http://www.euronews.com/2016/03/17/japan-helping-cambodia-clean-up-its-landmines

UXO found in abandoned Battambang barracks

Thirty-eight unexploded ordinances (UXO) and land mines of various models were found buried in a former Baktrea village jungle barracks yesterday, police said. ...

Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22142/uxo-found-in-abandoned-battambang-barracks/

Pursat man killed in UXO blast

A man from Pursat province’s Phnom Kravanh district was killed in an unexploded ordinance (UXO) blast on Sunday, according to police officials. ...

Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22026/pursat-man-killed-in-uxo-blast/

Smart rats sniffing out Cambodia's vast mine fields

It’s been a busy morning for Cletus, Meynard, Victoria and others of their furry band. Tiny noses and long whiskers twitching, they’ve scurried and sniffed their way across 775 square meters (8,300 square feet) of fields to eliminate a scourge that has killed thousands of ...

Denis D. Gray
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/smart-rats-sniffing-cambodias-vast-mine-fields-37154301

Demining group finds, destroys mortar shells

Fourteen unexploded mortar shells have been extracted from the outskirts of a village in Oddar Meanchey province and destroyed, demining group Halo Trust said yesterday. ...

Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/demining-group-finds-destroys-mortar-shells

Boy killed after UXO he was playing with explodes

A 12-year-old boy was killed when a piece of an 80-mm mortar shell he was playing with exploded on Saturday in Battambang province, police said on Sunday.   ...

Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/boy-killed-after-uxo-he-was-playing-with-explodes-108806/

Cousins die playing with UXO in Kompong Thom

Two children died on Friday afternoon in Kompong Thom province after attempting to open a rocket-propelled grenade they found near their house with an ax, police said on Sunday. ...

Kang Sothear and Peter Ford
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cousins-die-playing-with-uxo-in-k-thom-107689/

Casualties from UXO drop in 2015

Landmines and other old ordnance killed or injured 111 people in 2015, according to figures from the state-run Cambodian Mine Action Authority, as many as in 2013 but nearly a third less than last year, when casualties jumped to 154 people. ...

Ouch Sony and Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/casualties-from-a-drop-in-2015-106967/

Cambodia to join anti-weapon smuggling conference

Next week, Cambodia will join a conference focused on stopping the spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). The conference, to be held in Washington D.C. on January 27th, is part of the US-led Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI), started in 2003 to keep bomb parts ...

Jonathan Cox and Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/20361/cambodia-to-join-anti-weapon-smuggling-conference/

UK charity workers brave dangers to clear Cambodia of landmines

Forty years after the murderous regime of the Khmer Rouge swept to power in Cambodia, British charity workers are leading the effort to clear the landmines that are still the scourge of the country.Cambodia is one of the most densely landmined countries in the world ...

Press Association News Staff
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-3375061/UK-charity-workers-brave-dangers-clear-Cambodia-landmines.html

China gives money, equipment to demining efforts

The Chinese government On Thursday donated hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and supplies for demining efforts at a ceremony presided over by Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong. ...

Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/china-gives-money-equipment-to-demining-efforts-103875/

Kingdom's mine targets ‘out of reach’

Cambodia is likely to come under scrutiny as parties to the UN’s anti-landmine convention gather in Geneva this week, with a recent report saying the Kingdom is unlikely to hit its mine clearance targets, even under an already-extended deadline.The 14th meeting of states parties to ...

Zoe Holman
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kingdoms-mine-targets-out-reach

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