Cambodia News (Battambang Province): On July 25, 2023, in Roka Chhmol village, Kear commune, Moung Russey district, Battambang province, a 54-year-old male farmer named Chheang Mab spotted an A80 UXO in his farmland.
He called the local authorities who arranged for it to be taken out by the experts from the CMAC (Cambodia Mine Action Committee), carefully and successfully.

Germany to provide more than $ 2 million for demining projects in three provinces in Cambodia
Posted By Pen Srey Neat/CEN
August 4, 2023

The German government will provide more than $ 2 million for demining projects in three provinces in Cambodia. CMAC and Norwegian People's Aid (NPA) Germany will sign a "Cooperation Agreement on Humanitarian Mine Action in Cambodia" with Heng Ratana, Royal Government Delegation in charge of the Cambodian Mine Action Center and Mr. Rune Kristia n Dale-Andresen, NPA Country Director for Cambodia.

According to a CMAC announcement on August 3, 2023, the project received a total grant of US $ 2,100,000 from the Federal Government of Germany for a period of 16 months. By the end of August 2024, CMAC will carry out operations to clear about 1,600 hectares of minefields and raise awareness about the dangers of war weapons and help mine victims for the northwestern provinces, including: Banteay Meanchey, Oddar Meanchey and Preah Vihear provinces.

Cambodia and Norwegian People’s Aid sign deal for mine clearance
August 17, 2023 - by Kanlayakorn Pengrattana

The Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) and the Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) recently signed an agreement on “The Project for Humanitarian Demining in Cambodia” to manage mine clearance in the Asian country.

According to The Phnom Penh Post, the agreement was signed by CMAC director-general Heng Ratana and Rune Kristian Dale-Andresen, country director of NPA, at CMAC headquarters in Phnom Penh.

The project’s budget is $2.1 million and will proceed for sixteen months, ending in August of 2024.
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September 10, 2023
China helps train Cambodian experts in clearing land mines
Forty people from the armed forces in Cambodia and Laos completed a three-month training session on mine-clearing skills on Friday. The training, including the use of the latest mine-clearing technologies, will keep mine-clearing forces in their countries safe and enable them to conduct missions more efficiently, officials and teachers said.

The training took place from June 9 to Friday at the Army Engineering University of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army in Nanjing, Jiangsu province. The university has so far trained 328 demining specialists from Cambodia and Laos, which are among the countries worst affected by land mines and explosive remnants of war.

Luo Xiannan, a teacher at the university, said the use of new demining technologies including lasers, robots and drones has been included in the courses for foreign trainees for the first time.
Khmer Times/China Daily

War-left U.S. aerial bomb safely removed in Cambodian capital's NW suburb: official
(Xinhua) 09:58, October 11, 2023
PHNOM PENH, Oct. 10 (Xinhua) -- A Cambodian Mine Action Center (CMAC)'s expert team on Tuesday safely removed a war-left U.S.-made MK-82 aerial bomb from an area on the northwestern suburb of Phnom Penh, a mine clearance chief said.

CMAC's Director-General Heng Ratana said the team discovered the unexploded bomb and safely transported it to the CMAC's disposal center.

"Buried underground for over 50 years, but it looks fine for both shape and quality," he announced the find on social media. "Today, in Prek Pnov district on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, a CMAC's Explosive Remnants of War expert team safely removed and transported this aerial bomb."

Ratana said the MK-82 aerial bomb weighed around 230 kg.

Cambodia is one of the world's worst-affected countries suffered from mines and unexploded ordnances (UXOs) as the results of three decades of war and internal conflicts from the mid-1960s until 1998. An estimated 4 million to 6 million land mines and other munitions were left over from the conflicts.

According to Yale University, between 1965 and 1973, the United States had dropped 230,516 bombs on 113,716 sites in Cambodia.

A Cambodian government's report showed that from 1979 to June 2023, landmine and explosive remnants of war explosions had killed 19,821 people and either injured or amputated 45,205 others in the Southeast Asian country.
(Web editor: Zhang Kaiwei, Liang Jun)