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Legacies: Unexploded Ordnance
Vietnam: Big bombs in residential areas safely handled
by Vietnam+ Sappers of the Military High Command in the central province of Quang Tri in conjunction with the US’s Golden West organisation have successfully deactivated and removed bombs left from...
Viet Nam: One Man’s Atonement in an Ocean of Grief
The following essay, penned by Viet Nam veteran Chuck Searcy, is a chapter in How the U.S. Creates Sh*thole" Countries...
700-pound bomb found in middle of river in Nghe An Province
Thanh Chuong district residents discovered the bomb, partly exposed in the water, when they went to drop their fishing nets in the Ro River. Due to a heat wave, the river, more than 20m wide, had little water.
Overcoming War Legacies: The Road to Reconciliation and Future Cooperation Between the United States and Vietnam
This post originally appeared at the aspeninstitute.org MARCH 26, 2019 • THE AGENT ORANGE IN VIETNAM PROGRAM...
Ambassadors visit RENEW-NPA’s all-female clearance team
Photo: RENEW-NPA all-female field clearance team and four female ambassadors, front row (from left to right Deborah...
Project RENEW joins with Quang Tri Province authorities and other mine action organizations in meeting with U.S. Senators on explosive remnants of war
From 16 to 21 April 2019, U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy, the most senior member of the U.S. Congress, led an official bipartisan US Senate delegation of nine Senators to visit Vietnam during the Senate’s April recess.
Project RENEW shares tools and skills to reduce UXO injuries to make Viet Nam safer
Project RENEW & Quang Ngai Province’s Red Cross co-organized a Mine Risk Education Inception workshop in Quang Ngai Province recently.
Meet the Team Leader of Vietnam’s First All-Female Clearance Team
At age 30, Nguyen Thi Thuy has started in a job that everyone in Vietnam believed that only men could do. This mother of one daughter now leads an all-female clearance team of 16 members for clearing cluster munitions and other explosive remnants of war contaminated land in Quang Tri Province.
Patrick Leahy: War legacies and the expanding U.S.-Vietnam partnership
When I became a senator for Vermont in 1975, one of the first votes I cast was for a law to stop funding the war in Vietnam. That law passed by one vote…. Words cannot adequately describe the magnitude of the catastrophe of that war for the people of both countries.
Leahy Heads Bipartisan Senate Delegation In Visits To The Korea DMZ, And Vietnam
A bipartisan official U.S. Senate delegation of nine Senators will visit South Korea and Vietnam for meetings with government and military leaders April 14 thru April 23.
Unexploded bombs continue to haunt Hà Giang
HÀ GIANG — Residents of Thanh Thuỷ Commune in Vị Xuyên District said they are still occasionally startled by an explosion somewhere in the mountains nearby, a cruel reminder of a bloody border war 40 years ago.
Quang Tri mobilises resources to settle post-war landmines
Unexploded bombs and mines found in Quang Tri province (Photo: VNA) This post originally appeared at VIETNAM + /...
RENEW project handles 590 explosive devices in Quang Tri
Various explosive devices found at the construction site in Quang Tri (Photo: nhandan.com.vn) VNA LÚC : SUNDAY,...