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Landmines UXO and demining

Landmine causalities drop 37 percent

Cambodia recorded 85 landmine and unexploded ordnance (UXO) casualties in the first nine months of this year, a 37-percent decrease compared with 135 casualties over the same period last year, according to a report yesterday. ...

Xinhua team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17909/landmine-causalities-drop-37-percent/

UXO’s found at land clearing site

An excavator driver and his supervisor had a shock when they found Unexploded Ordnance (UXOs) while marking land for clearing works in Kampot province. ...

Khmer Times team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17291/uxo---s-found-at-land-clearing-site/

Farmer injured after playing with old bomb part

A cassava farmer received injuries to his legs and hands when an old bomb fuse went off near his home in Pailin province on Sunday after he threw a rock at it, police said yesterday. ...

Buth Kimsay
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/farmer-injured-after-playing-with-old-bomb-part-97634/

Cambodian deminers bring expertise to Cyprus

Half a world from home, Cambodian experts toil under a beating sun to demine the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, using skills they honed to help rid their own country of landmines. ...

Nadera Bouazza
http://news.yahoo.com/cambodian-deminers-bring-expertise-cyprus-112433166.html

UN targets 2030 now, Hun Sen pushes demining

The United Nations adopted a sweeping set of targets aimed at improving the lives of the poor and protecting the environment over the next 15 years on Friday.Called the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), they target issues like gender inequality, poverty, and climate change, and replace ...

Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16224/un-targets-2030-now--hun-sen-pushes-demining/

PM to talk on mines at UN

Prime Minister Hun Sen flew to New York yesterday for talks where he will raise the scourge of landmines which still affect Cambodia. ...

Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16104/pm-to-talk-on-mines-at-un/

Three children injured after playing with UXO

Three children were seriously injured on Friday afternoon after a piece of unexploded ordnance (UXO) they found near their homes in Kompong Speu province detonated when they tried to make it into a cowbell, local officials said Sunday. ...

Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/three-children-injured-after-playing-with-uxo-94861/

One border police officer killed, one badly injured by old rocket

A police officer was killed and another injured on Wednesday night when an old rocket from a 60-mm rocket launcher exploded while they were on patrol along Oddar Meanchey province’s border with Thailand, according to local officials. ...

Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/one-border-police-officer-killed-one-badly-injured-by-old-rocket-92786/

Demining dogs arrive from Bosnia; more to come

A pack of 10 Belgian shepherds arrived in Cambodia from Bosnia on Friday to bolster the country’s aging team of explosives-sniffing canines, courtesy of Norwegian People’s Aid, which is covering the roughly $36,000 cost, an official said Sunday. ...

Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/demining-dogs-arrive-from-bosnia-more-to-come-92350/

One day, multiple UXO found

Seven undetonated explosive devices – three in Kandal, three in Pursat and one in Prey Veng – were discovered yesterday, local authorities confirmed, just days after a Russian-made anti-personnel mine was found less than 100 metres away from a ticket booth at Angkor Wat. The ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/one-day-multiple-uxo-found

Live US bomb dug up from under shophouse

Forty-three years ago, a 500-pound MK-82 bomb fell from a U.S. warplane and onto a house in Choeung Lang village, crashing through the roof and lodging in the soft dirt beneath the floor. ...

Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/live-us-bomb-dug-up-from-under-shophouse-91800/

World's smallest deminers to start work in Cambodia

In Cambodia, the first group of rats is training to help their human counterparts clear land still contaminated with mines and other unexploded ordnance (UXO) after decades of war.It might seem odd to use rats as deminers, but Apopo, an organization that trains Giant African ...

Denise Hruby
http://www.aa.com.tr/en/news/575039--worlds-smallest-deminers-to-start-work-in-cambodia

Landmine casualties drop by one-third this year

Cambodia reported 66 landmine casualties in the first six months of 2015, a 35 percent drop, compared with 101 cases one year earlier, according to data released yesterday . ...

James Brooke
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/14062/landmine-casualties-drop-by-one-third-this-year/

Cambodia takes regional lead with elite bomb dive squad

A quiet, unoccupied section of Victory Beach in Sihanoukville hosted a group of remarkable visitors this week as divers from the Cambodian Mine Action Center (CMAC) tested sophisticated new sonar and magnetic equipment donated by the US. ...

Jack Laurenson
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13581/cambodia-takes-regional-lead-with-elite-bomb-dive-squad/

Landmine casualties in Cambodia down 36 pct in 5 months of 2015

Cambodia has seen 57 landmine casualties in the first five months of 2015, down 36 percent compared with 89 casualties over the same period of last year, the latest report said Saturday. ...

Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/article/6611927/2015/07/11/landmine-casualties-cambodia-down-36-pct-5-months-2015

Cambodia imports Africa rats for demining work

Cambodia has imported 15 rats from Africa for the purpose of locating landmines and unexploded ordnance in the country, a senior landmine official told Kyodo News on Thursday. ...

Bangkok Post News Staff
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asean/596864/cambodia-imports-africa-rats-for-demining-work

Evictees ask gov’t for return of abandoned Thai plantations

A half-dozen villagers from Oddar Meanchey province traveled to Phnom Penh on Wednesday to ask the highest levels of government to return the farmland that thousands of families say they had stolen from them by a trio of Thai-owned sugarcane plantations. ...

Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/evictees-ask-govt-for-return-of-abandoned-thai-plantations-85783/

UXO casualties ‘down by 38%’

Cambodia reported 44 casualties related to landmines and explosive remnants of war in the first four months of 2015, a 38 per cent fall from the same period last year. ...

Ethan Harfenist
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/uxo-casualties-down-38

Cambodia sees 35 pct drop in landmine casualties in Q1

Cambodia reported 39 landmine casualties in the first three months of 2015, a 35 percent drop compared with 60 casualties over the same period last year, according to the latest report released on Thursday. ...

The Cambodia Herald​ News Staff
http://bit.ly/1Mv3MI8

Giant rats trained to smell explosives are being used to sniff out landmines in Cambodia

They may make your skin crawl, but these rats are saving lives in Cambodia. The giant rats are being used to sniff out landmines in the war-torn country, where there are as many as three million mines still scattered across the countryside. ...

Imogen Calderwood
http://dailym.ai/1GxRWNc

Money a worry for deminers ahead of 2019 clean-up deadline

During the Management of Residual Explosive Remnants of War (MORE) Symposium in Siem Reap this week, attendees were invited to a demonstration at a live minefield only an hour north of the town. Despite indications that the 2019 treaty deadline would not be met and ...

Kimberley Mccosker
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/money-worry-deminers-ahead-2019-clean-deadline

Mine, UXO explosions casualties up in 2014

Both the number of accidents and casualties caused by old landmines and other unexploded ordnance (UXO) rose by nearly 40 percent last year, according to the latest government data, though the two figures were still the second lowest on record following years of progress in ...

Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/mine-uxo-explosions-casualties-up-in-2014-81534/

Four children injured by UXO blast near school

Four children were injured, two of them seriously, after playing with unexploded ordnance (UXO) near their school in Siem Reap province’s Chi Kreng district on Tuesday, police said Thursday. ...

Saing Soenthrith and Alex Consiglio
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/four-children-injured-by-uxo-blast-near-school-80835/

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