Explosion wounds four ethnic minority men near former U.S. Marine base at Khe Sanh
One of Project RENEW’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) teams yesterday took action to safely remove a piece of unexploded ordnance (UXO) from a kindergarten attended by 150 toddlers in Cam Lo Ha Village of Cam Thanh Commune. RENEW’s quick...
Post-war ordnance explodes in Quang Tri school yard, nobody hurt
One of Project RENEW’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) teams yesterday took action to safely remove a piece of unexploded ordnance (UXO) from a kindergarten attended by 150 toddlers in Cam Lo Ha Village of Cam Thanh Commune. RENEW’s quick...
Large UXO Cache Found In Vung Ha Clearance Site
One of Project RENEW’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) teams yesterday took action to safely remove a piece of unexploded ordnance (UXO) from a kindergarten attended by 150 toddlers in Cam Lo Ha Village of Cam Thanh Commune. RENEW’s quick...
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund to receive $1 million from U.S. Government for demining activities in Vietnam. Announcement Kicks Off Delegation of Returning American Veterans
An explosion of wartime ordnance caused major injuries to a local resident of Tan Quang Village in Cam Tuyen Commune last Sunday afternoon. Nguyen Duc Nha, born in 1978, hit an unidentified item of unexploded ordnance while searching for...
Project RENEW Clearance Team certified with CEN EOD standards
Fifteen Battle Area Clearance (BAC) searchers of Project RENEW have been awarded certificates recognizing the training and technical proficiency they have achieved during the past two years in removing unexploded ordnance (UXO) from contaminated areas of the province. Chris Matute,...
Parading the safety message to prevent UXO accidents
More than 200 young people on motorbikes, red flags flying, paraded behind a jeep mounted with loudspeakers along main roads of Cam Lo District last week to reinforce the message of safety and injury prevention from bombs, mines, and...
Mine Action Alert: Explosion injures Quang Tri man while dredging sand from river bottom
A dredging operation at the Ben Hai River, site of the former DMZ during wartime, resulted in serious injuries to a Quang Tri man when a piece of ordnance exploded in a pump mechanism he was using to suck...
Tubes of cluster munitions found intact in Quang Tri Province
An unexploded and partially intact assembly of cluster munitions, packed in a configuration of tube-type pods dropped from an American aircraft more than three decades ago, has been unearthed in Quang Tri Province near the DMZ.
Scrap metal collector severely injured by ordnance explosion in Quang Tri Province
A 42-year-old married man, the father of two children, has suffered major injuries from a piece of explosive ordnance which detonated as the man was attempting to cut it apart and sell it for scrap metal.
Project RENEW breaks ground for Tuong Van Elementary School
On the morning of 18 Feb 2009, Project RENEW in coordination with Quang Tri Department of Foreign Affairs and Trieu Phong District People’s Committee successfully hosted the ground breaking ceremony of Tuong Van Elementary School in Trieu An commune,...