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Landmines kill 22 people in Cambodia last year, down 49 pct
Landmines had killed 22 people in Cambodia in 2013, down 49 percent compared with 43 deaths in a year earlier, a report of the Cambodian Mine Action Authority showed Tuesday. Besides the deaths, 89 others were injured, down 37 percent from 142 injuries, the report said. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-01/28/c_133080433.htm
Lon Nol-era explosives found
An unscheduled bathroom break led to the discovery of 27 pieces of unexploded ordnance in Kampong Speu’s Samrong Tong district on Monday, military police said yesterday. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/lon-nol-era-explosives-found
Villagers in Land Dispute Detain Workers, Confiscate Equipment
Villagers involved in a land dispute in Battambang province on Monday temporarily detained six men working for an agribusiness firm who were preparing the disputed land to be cleared, residents and police said. The six workers were using mine detectors to check for unexploded ordnance in ...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-in-land-dispute-detain-workers-confiscate-equipment-50594/
Disability Services to Be Rolled Out in Provinces
Cambodia will on Tuesday introduce measures intended to better serve disabled people living in the provinces and will hold its first workshop on the draft of a new five-year plan to improve disability services, the government said at an annual meeting of members to the ...
Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/disability-services-to-be-rolled-out-in-provinces-48641/
China provides mine clearance training to Cambodian soldiers
A team of 12 Chinese military experts on Thursday started offering a six-week mine clearance course to 52 Cambodian peacekeeping force. The training is being held at the Institute for Peacekeeping Forces, Mine and Explosive Remnants of War Clearance. According to the Cambodian Mine Action Authority, ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/131205/china-provides-mine-clearance-training-cambodian-soldiers
Cambodia marks Disability Day
Cambodia celebrated its 15th annual Cambodia Day of Persons with Disabilities and the 31st annual International Day of Persons with Disabilities, on Tuesday at the Phnom Penh Cultural Center. Prime Minister Hun Sen attended the event themed, “Removing barriers to create an inclusive and accessible ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=MDNlNDA4NWNkZTM#sthash.KW36yrfM.dpuf
Schoolkids find mine under tree
Primary school students playing outside their school in Oddar Meanchey province discovered an exposed landmine in the school yard on Wednesday. Students at Hun Sen Anlong Veng Primary School found the mine poking out of the ground “like a custard apple” while they were playing near ...
Kim Sarom
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/schoolkids-find-mine-under-tree
Demining Rats Get All Clear to Begin Testing
The battle against landmines could soon have an unlikely new weapon after a pioneering Belgian NGO signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the government on Monday to begin testing teams of sharp-sniffing rodents in Cambodia, with the goal of pitching them into the ongoing ...
Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/demining-rats-get-all-clear-to-begin-testing-47951/
Switzerland provides 3 mln USD to Cambodia for mine clearance
Switzerland on Tuesday granted 3 million U.S. dollars to Cambodia through the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) for mine clearance. The agreement was inked between Rahel Boesch, director of Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation office in Cambodia, and Setsuko Yamazaki, director of UNDP office in Cambodia, ...
Business Ghana News Staff
http://www.businessghana.com/portal/news/index.php?op=getNews&news_cat_id=&id=193425
Old landmine injures 7 farmers in northwestern Cambodia
Seven people were injured on Wednesday morning after they stepped on an old landmine while walking to their rice fields in a former battlefield in Anlong Veng district of Oddar Meanchey province, the provincial governor, Sar Thavy said. ...
Global Times News Staff
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/826415.shtml#.Uo1lUsRgd8E
Weapons cache found
A cache of 130 AK-47 rifles, ammunition and two unexploded rockets have been found by a group of children in the Oral mountain range, Kampong Chhnang police officials said yesterday. Khem Vibol, police chief at Teuk Phos district, where the weapons were reported to the authorities, ...
Kim Sarom
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/weapons-cache-found
Buried mine injures pair of soldiers
Two Cambodian soldiers sustained injuries after accidentally setting off a buried anti-personnel mine in Pailin on Sunday. The soldiers were stationed at the A3 military camp based in Chheu Krom village, on the Cambodian-Thai border in Pailin. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/buried-mine-injures-pair-soldiers
Death toll from landmines in Cambodia down 43 pct in 9 months
Landmines had killed 21 people in Cambodia in the first nine months of 2013, a 43 percent drop compared with the 37 deaths over the same period last year, a report of the Cambodian Mine Action Authority showed Saturday. From January to September this year, 57 ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-10/26/c_132832440.htm
Japan Pledges $9M to Demining in Battambang
The government of Japan will donate about $9.13 million to the Cambodian Mine Action Center (CMAC) to further their efforts in clearing Battambang province’s Bavel and Ratanak Mondol districts, two of the most heavily mined areas nationwide, officials said Wednesday. ...
Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/japan-pledges-9m-to-demining-in-battambang-45798/
Floods Bring Another Danger to the Northwest—Landmines
In the past decade, thanks to extensive demining efforts, few residents of Battambang province’s Rokha Kiri district had seen land mines, millions of which once covered Cambodian soil after decades of civil war. ...
Mech Dara and Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/floods-bring-another-danger-to-the-northwest-landmines-45481/
Unexploded mines found
Seven unexploded landmines were discovered last week by construction workers building a highway through Banteay Meanchey province, police said yesterday. The mines, which include an anti-tank mine and six Russian-made devices, were found buried in Thma Puok district, Banteay Chhmar commune, after heavy rains helped expose ...
Lieng Sarith
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/unexploded-mines-found
Cambodian to meet some MDG goals, deal landmine issues: envoy
Cambodia will meet some of the Millennium Development Goals by the end of 2015 and will continue to deal with landmine threats, said a Cambodian envoy to UN Tuesday at the General Debate of the UN General Assembly. The number of people below the poverty line ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-10/02/c_132767290.htm
Landmines kill 19 people in Cambodia in 8 months
PHNOM PENH, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) — Landmines have killed at least 19 people in Cambodia in the first eight months of the year, down from 26 deaths over the same period last year, the figures of the Cambodia Mine Action Center (CMAC) showed Thursday. The latest ...
Xinhua
http://www.asean-china-center.org/english/2013-09/27/c_132756738.htm
Huge UXO stash found by farmer
A potato farmer who unearthed old bullets as he ploughed his field on Friday in Oddar Meanchey province discovered more than 500 pieces of unexploded ordnance, anti-mine officials said yesterday. Farmer Hun Kren, 29, alerted authorities to the discovery in Banteay Ampil district, where Cambodian Mine ...
Kim Sarom and Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/huge-uxo-stash-found-farmer
UXO kills one, injures two others in Pailin
One man was killed and two teenagers injured on Sunday while cleaning unexploded ordnance they found just past the border of Pailin, in Thailand’s Chanthaburi province. Sot Phy, 27, was killed on the spot, while a 14- and 16-year-old were badly injured. ...
Lieng Sarith
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/uxo-kills-one-injures-two-others-pailin
Japan Provides Almost US$800,000 for Mine Clearance in Battambang Province
The Government of Japan has decided to provide a total of US$791,720 to Japan Mine Action Service (JMAS) to improve mine clearance in Battambang province in 2013. The grant contract was signed here last Friday at the Embassy of Japan between H.E. Kumamaru Yuji, Japanese Ambassador ...
C. Nika
http://www.akp.gov.kh/?p=36095
Cambodia Still Undecided About Signing Cluster Munitions Treaty
Despite being one of the earliest proponents of the U.N.-sponsored Convention on Cluster Munitions, Cambodia was still not ready to sign on, an official said on the eve of the fourth annual meeting of state parties to the treaty in Zambia. Heng Ratana, director-general of the ...
Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-still-undecided-about-signing-cluster-munitions-treaty-41918/
Landmine casualties in Cambodia down 36 pct in 7 months
Cambodia reported 74 landmine casualties in the first seven months of this year, down 36 percent from the 115 casualties over the same period last year, the figures of the Cambodia Mine Action Center (CMAC) said Tuesday. During the January-July period this year, 12 people were ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-08/27/c_132666679.htm
Anti-tank mine explodes, killing 6 in Cambodia
Six farmers were killed on the spot and another one seriously injured after a home-made tractor ran onto an old anti-tank mine in northwestern Preah Vihear province, police chief confirmed Thursday. The accident occurred in a forest in Chom-ksan district when the tractor hit the mine ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-08/15/c_132632791.htm