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Landmines UXO and demining
Deminers to get training in China
The Cambodian Mine Action Authority is going to dispatch 40 of its demining staff to China to receive training next month as part of China’s commitment in supporting mine clearance. ...
Pav Suy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50527762/deminers-to-get-training-in-china/
UXO kills boy, injures three in Kampong Speu
A boy was killed and another three injured after an unexploded ordnance (UXO) they were playing with detonated in Kampong Speu province’s Ka Ek Porng village on Monday. Deputy district police chief Suon Chan said the four friends were minding cattle in a field when ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/uxo-kills-boy-injures-three-kampong-speu
United Kingdom to aid demining until 2020
The United Kingdom will provide aid until 2020 for demining operations to clear unexploded ordnance in Cambodia. Senior Minister Ly Thuch, who is also the first vice chairman of the Cambodian Mine Action and Victims Assistance Authority, met with Elizabeth McGarva, senior policy adviser with ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50520187/united-kingdom-to-aid-demining-until-2020/
Preah Vihear Temple bombs being removed
The Cambodian Mine Action Center has begun searching for and removing unexploded ordnances left behind from a dispute between Cambodia and Thailand over the Preah Vihear Temple complex in 2008. ...
Pav Suy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50519712/preah-vihear-temple-bombs-being-removed/
CMAC reminds villagers to not excavate bombs
Following two unexploded ordnance cases this week, a Cambodian Mine Action Centre official yesterday reminded the public to steer clear of any explosives found and immediately contact authorities for extraction. CMAC director-general Heng Ratana said that people who come across unexploded ordnances should immediately report ...
Pav Suy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50518663/cmac-reminds-villagers-to-not-excavate-bombs/
CMAC unveils new demining project
The Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) on Friday incorporated more than 250 retired and disabled officers and staff into the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF). It also announced a 10-year (2016-2025) demining project that requires around $100 million in funds for the first five years. ...
HongTholly Sonit and Oung Dane
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cmac-unveils-new-demining-project
Farmer unearths civil war bullets
A farmer stumbled upon a case containing 100 rounds of Soviet-designed RPK bullets for machine guns while ploughing his land in Battambang Province’s Banan district on Sunday. Officials with the Cambodian Mine Action Centre were called in to take the ammunition for destruction yesterday. ...
Pav Suy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50507844/farmer-unearths-civil-war-bullets/
Massive unexploded bomb found in Kandal
The Cambodian Mine Action Centre yesterday removed a 220-kilogram bomb and three artillery shells found in farms across four locations in three districts in Kandal province. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50505749/massive-unexploded-bomb-found-in-kandal/
CMAC retirees to get pensions
The Cambodian Mine Action Centre has called for all retired staff and families of deceased staff to contact its office to get a pension under its Royal Cambodian Armed Forces status. ...
Ven Rathavong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50505356/cmac-retirees-to-get-pensions/
Ordnance found in K Chhnang
Explosives experts from the Cambodian Mine Action Centre have unearthed nearly 1,000 pieces of unexploded ordnance (UXO) after being called to a military base in Kampong Chhnang province. CMAC discovered 894 items of explosive material after soldiers at Cholkiri district’s Tuol Chek base came across ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ordnance-found-k-chhnang
Hundreds of UXO discovered in Pursat
Over 500 pieces of unexploded ordnance (UXO), including bullets and a 100mm mortar shell, have been found and collected in Pursat province’s Bakan district. ...
Kim Sarom
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hundreds-uxo-discovered-pursat
Scores of explosive war remnants unearthed
More than 100 pieces of unexploded ordnance were discovered and collected in Preah Sihanouk province on Wednesday before being handed over to bomb disposal experts. Provincial police chief Choun Narin said 136 UXOs were found in places such as Sihanoukville, Prey Nob district and Stung ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50498594/scores-of-explosive-war-remnants-unearthed/
More than 20 bombs destroyed in Preah Vihear
Cambodian Mine Action Centre officials on Tuesday detonated a pile of about 20 bombs found by a farmer working his land in Preah Vihear province. Chan Dy, Chey Sen district deputy chief of police, said yesterday that a Samrong village farmer notified police about the ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50497920/more-than-20-bombs-destroyed-in-preah-vihear/
UXOs found in Preah Vihear province
Nearly 100 unexploded ordnances were handed over to the authorities yesterday after farmers working the land found them in Preah Vihear province on Friday. A Koulen district police official said yesterday that police were called after villagers reported that farmers had accumulated about 70 UXOs. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50496724/uxos-found-in-preah-vihear-province/
UN accepts demining on SDG agenda
The United Nations has recognised landmines and unexploded ordnance clearance as the nineteenth Sustainable Development Goals following a request from Cambodia, officials said yesterday. ...
Ven Rathavong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50494986/un-accepts-demining-on-sdg-agenda/
China grants millions for mine clearance
China has provided a $2.5 million grant to the government to support the demining activities of the Cambodian Mine Action Centre. According to a CMAC statement issued on Thursday, China granted the aid under the China-Aided Cambodia Landmine Elimination Project, which will run until May 2019 ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50494097/china-grants-millions-for-mine-clearance/
Police in Siem Reap seize rifles as CMAC finds 100 bombs
Chy Kreng district police in Siem Reap province seized 138 homemade rifles on Wednesday from locals, while Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) working groups in Prey Veng province unearthed more than 100 cluster bombs. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-siem-reap-seize-rifles-cmac-finds-100-bombs
Excavators unearth wartime shells
Police in Siem Reap Province’s Chikreng district handed more than 20 pieces of unexploded ordnance over for destruction after they were found underground when land was being excavated. The Cambodia Self-Help Demining NGO said it cooperated with district police forces on Tuesday after soil excavators ...
Pav Suy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50492829/excavators-unearth-wartime-shells/
Mine of information
Prime Minister Hun Sen chastised the head of the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC), Cambodia’s leading demining organisation, on Thursday during a speech to close out the National Strategic Plan of Mine Action Conference . ...
Kong Meta
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mine-information
Two dead from UXO blasts
Two men have been killed and another seriously injured in two separate incidents involving unexploded ordnance (UXO) in Banteay Meanchey and Preah Vihear this week. According to Heng Ratana, the director-general of Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC), a farmer in Oddar Meanchey province’s Preah Net ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/two-dead-uxo-blasts
More than $400 million needed for mine clearance
The Cambodian Mine Action Authority said yesterday that the country needs more than $400 million to clear mines and explosive remnants of war from 2018 to 2025, on an area larger than 1,970 square kilometres. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50299575/more-than-400-million-needed-for-mine-clearance/
Unexploded ordnance found while excavating land
Thirteen unexploded bombs left over from the civil war were unearthed when a villager was excavating soil to construct a toilet on Friday in Kampong Chhnang city’s Ba’ier commune, according to police. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50116030/unexploded-ordnance-found-while-excavating-land/
Villagers discover bombs in Siem Reap
Police in Siem Reap province have handed over 14 unexploded ordnances left over from the war to an NGO tasked with demining. Svay Leu commune police chief Hout Sopanha said yesterday that villagers found the unexploded ordnance while clearing land for farming and then contacted his ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50115622/villagers-discover-bombs-in-siem-reap/
CMAC to get pensions in framework of RCAF
The Cambodian Mine Action Center has been incorporated into the “framework” of the Cambodian military, ostensibly to allow CMAC employees to receive government pensions. “Officials and staff of [CMAC] would like to deeply thank [Hun Sen] for offering officials and staff of CMAC official framework ...
Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cmac-get-pensions-framework-rcaf