Vietnam vet Chuck Searcy works to clean up U.S. bomb legacy in Vietnam
Chuck Searcy might one day return to Athens to stay. But as he nears 70, Searcy says he still has unfinished business after 19 years in Vietnam...
NPA train BOMICEN technical staff on non-technical survey and information management
Fifteen technicians from the Technology Centre for Bomb and Mine Disposal (BOMICEN) have just finished a five-day training course organized by Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) using experience and expertise from Project RENEW.
Norwegian People’s Aid commits supporting Quang Tri Province to overcome consequences of explosive remnants of war
The signing of a cooperation agreement between Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) and the government of Quang Tri Province today was a benchmark in the joint efforts to help the province address the consequences of cluster bombs and other explosive...
Teenage boys find 500 wartime munitions, alert RENEW team for safe removal and destruction
A cache of unexploded ordnance was recovered and removed from an acacia forest in a coastal area of Quang Tri Province this week, after two schoolboys rode their bicycles two kilometers to report their discovery to a Project RENEW...
Wedding goes on as scheduled, after cluster bombs are removed from family garden
A family of seven in An Hung Village has peace of mind now, after two deadly cluster bombs and one rifle grenade were safely destroyed from their garden on Wednesday by one of Project RENEW’s mobile Explosive Ordnance Disposal...
Scrap metal collector reports cache of unexploded mortars unearthed near local residents’ home
A quick response on Monday by Project RENEW’s EOD team to a UXO discovery report the day before resulted in over 60 items of wartime ordnance being safely removed from a rice field near a family residence in Trieu...
Elderly villager’s intervention saves grandson and friends from UXO threat
An elderly villager in Trieu Trung Commune may have saved his grandson and the boy’s friends from being killed or injured by a US wartime bomb recently, when the grandfather stopped the boys from trying to drag the bomb...
Mine Action ALERT: Wartime ordnance explosion severely injures ethnic coffee farmer near former U.S. Marine base at Khe Sanh
Coffee drinkers love Vietnam’s Arabica coffee grown at Khe Sanh, a former battleground in the central province of Quang Tri. But they probably don’t know that to grow one of the best coffee beans in Vietnam, indigenous farmers face...
Knowledge gives confidence to residents that they can be safe from UXO
It was an early morning in March when Duong Van Thanh, father of a 6-month-old daughter, was walking through his family's garden bordered by an expanse of green rice fields. Jumping over an irrigation ditch, Thanh suddenly spied two...
Behind prison walls, inmates get reprieve from added sentence of dangerous munitions
Quang Tri Province, like every other province in Viet Nam, has a prison camp. It houses lawbreakers who have been convicted of crimes ranging from petty theft to drug dealing, assault, even murder. Though conditions are humane, life without...