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...
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...
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...
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...
Project RENEW’s EOD Teams resumed operations yesterday after a nine-day break for Tet, the Vietnamese Lunar New Year holiday, and safely destroyed a dangerous grenade near an old tomb in Cam Lo District.
A teenage boy may have saved schoolmates and local residents from death and injury today by flagging down a Project RENEW Mobile EOD team and directing them to a cache of more than 100 cluster munitions and other unexploded...
In July 1968 the battle at Khe Sanh in western Quang Tri Province came to a quiet close when the fighting stopped, the guns fell silent, and the large toll of casualties among American, North Vietnamese, and South Vietnamese...
There are still ongoing lethal consequences of the Vietnam War that ended in 1975. Undetonated "bomblets," dropped by the U.S. military during the conflict, are killing and maiming people who discover them by accident. To help close a painful...
An explosion of wartime ordnance critically injured a 42-year-old resident of Hai Le Ward, Quang Tri Township on Friday as he was digging and replanting trees in the forest, resulting in loss of one arm, a mangled hand, leg...
Tuesday 13 August 2013 was a memorable Mine Risk Education field trip away from home for 50 students of Le Hong Phong Secondary School from Cam Tuyen Commune, Cam Lo District.