Koulabdara, whose family fled to the United States when she was 6, says she saw her father care for victims of UXO accidents. Her most vivid childhood memory of her time in Laos took place when ...

She had come from a devastated section of Khammouan Province in central Laos, where many places remain so littered with unexploded ordnance (UXO) that it’s impossible to farm there. Because ...

UXO clearance project kicks off in Huaphan The Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) Clearance Project in Huameuang district, Huaphan ...

With approximately 30 percent of the cluster bombs dropped by the US failing to detonate, tens of millions of unexploded ordnance (UXO) remain buried in Lao soil. Since 1964, an estimated 50,000 ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/Asia News Network): Lao and Russian military personnel are speeding up the clearance of unexploded ordnance (UXO) in Khammuan province, with joint operations taking ...

The people of Laos have utilised the metal from UXO for the past 30 years. In Phonsavan, the fences of peoples' houses are made of shell casings. Unexploded cluster bombs are also forged into axes ...

VIENTIANE: Over the past three months, Lao and Russian military bomb disposal experts have removed 285 items of unexploded ordnance (UXO) from a planned total area of 187,180 square metres ...

During the Vietnam War, the United States bombed Laos on a massive scale and in secret ... Laotians risk their lives every day in the painstaking work to clear the country of UXO, a process which ...