December 23, 2011
A bomb from the Vietnam War detected in Hanoi on Tuesday. Soldiers are handling two big unexploded bombs that have recently been discovered in Hanoi, Tien Phong quoted the High Command of the capital as saying on Thursday. According to the newspaper, one of the bombs was unearthed Tuesday when workers were upgrading the Dinh [...]
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December 14, 2011
An unexploded bomb unearthed in the garden of a resident’s house in the north-central province of Quang Tri, which has recorded the highest number of deaths and injuries caused by unexploded bombs and landmines The Americans lost 58,000 lives in the Vietnam War. Vietnamese have lost 42,000 lives to the war after it ended [...]
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December 9, 2011
Soldiers study a 2,000lb bomb dropped by the US Airforce during the Vietnam War in A Luoi, the central province of Thua Thien-Hue. Vietnam is seeking US$500 million in assistance from domestic and international sources to help clear war-era bombs and mines and reduce the difficulties for its people and land contaminated by unexploded ordnance, [...]
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July 4, 2011
Soldiers and civilians risk their lives in removing unexploded bombs that continue to kill thousands decades after the Vietnam War Soldiers remove an unexploded bomb out of a rice field in the Mekong Delta in April Nguyen Van Cuong quit his job as bomb deactivator two years ago, but constantly thinks of the “meaningful [...]
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November 14, 2010
 Nong, a government employee pictured with the children of Kengkup village, Sepone District, Savhanakhet Province. Nong said four children were recently killed in the village while out playing with an unexploded sub-munitions dropped by American planes during the “secret” bombing campaign over Laos. The first use of cluster munitions reportedly occurred when a World [...]
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December 7, 2009
Nguyen Duc Huynh (L) visits Ho Van Lai, a victim of war-era unexploded ordnance in the central province of Quang Tri last month A boy deformed by a war-era napalm bomb helps the less fortunate. Nguyen Duc Huynh was chased out of a café on the bank of Hanoiâs West Lake Tuesday after the owner [...]
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November 23, 2009
International and domestic delegates gathered on November 19 in Quang Tri to find ways of minimising accidents caused by post-war bombs and landmines in central provinces. LookAtVietnam – International and domestic delegates gathered on November 19 in central Quang Tri Province to find ways of minimising accidents caused by post-war bombs and landmines and boosting [...]
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November 22, 2009
14-year-old Hoang Thi Thien had her right eye, chest, abdomen, and legs injured after a war-time bomb exploded in Quang Tri There is no peace for those who live in one of the worldâs most heavily-bombed areas. Nguyen Van Troi slept through the afternoon, not common practice for a farmer who usually tends fields all [...]
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August 16, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Unexploded ordnance and landmines are a tragic reminder of war and a daily threat for civilians in Vietnam. On July 10, after helping his parents to clean the house and taking care of his two younger sisters, 12-year-old Dao Ba Thanh led his two friends and the family’s herd of buffaloes to a [...]
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August 1, 2009
A makeshift sign reads “Unexploded bombs, danger” in a field in central Vietnam. Over 35 percent of the land in six central provinces remains contaminated with unexploded ordnance (UXO), which still kills scores of innocent people every year, according to a new study released Friday. Since the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, unexploded [...]
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