This project demonstrates a new approach to survey and clearance in Vietnam. It is built on strong relationships with local authorities and places an emphasis on the critical role of information management. Combined with strong collaboration between operators, these...
Thai Quoc Viet, a resident of Dong Ha City, did not expect to encounter such wartime ordnance as he was digging the foundation for his new house in Dong Le Ward. But about 5:00 p.m. Sunday his workers...
NPA Vietnam is seeking qualified, enthusiastic, experienced Vietnamese national applicants for the position of Interpreter/Translator. The post holder will be based in NPA-RENEW project office in Quang Tri Province. Women and disabled people are encouraged to apply. The closing...
58-year-old Phung Dinh Hao suddendly encountered a deadly cluster bomb while he was clearing weeds to prepapre for a new peanut crop on Tuesday.
A short video by Peter Jaeggi from Swiss Public Radio depicting a Project RENEW's Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team at work, providing quick response to UXO discoveries reported by villagers of Cam Phu near the former U.S. Marine Corps...
U.S. Department of State Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, Rose Goettemoeller, accompanied with the U.S. Embassy staff and Department of State’s the Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement (WRA), traveled to Quang Tri Province on 1-2...
A UXO discovery reported by an ethnic Van Kieu hunter on Wednesday resulted in eight artillery shells being safely removed from a hill half a kilometer from Route 9 – a major east-west artery today, and part of the...
The signing of a three-year agreement on Monday between the Quang Tri Province People’s Committee (PPC) and Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA), in a ceremony in Dong Ha, will officially expand Project RENEW’s survey and clearance of cluster bombs and...
In the first week of the New Year 2015, 160 items of unexploded ordnance (UXO) were safely removed by RENEW’s mobile Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) teams from people’s gardens, rice fields, plantations and roadsides in two districts of Quang...
In Quang Tri, the most unexploded ordnance-impacted province of the country, there is a tour for visitors to get close to these deadly weapons. Not everybody knows about this new and exotic kind of tourism. Project RENEW, with the...