Asia Society Northern California and the Japan Policy Research Institute hosted veteran journalists Karen Coates and Jerry Redfern for a program on November 12 looking at the “secret” U.S. bombing of ...

PHNOM PENH, Nov 12 (Bernama) -- In the rugged and scenic mountains of remote villages in Laos, children and farmers contend with a legacy of landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) threatening their ...

The United States has suspended its support for global landmine clearing operations, prompting warnings from de-mining ...

With approximately 30 percent of the cluster bombs dropped by the US failing to detonate, tens of millions of unexploded ordnance (UXO) remain buried in Lao soil. Since 1964, an estimated 50,000 ...

Koulabdara, whose family fled to the United States when she was 6, says she saw her father care for victims of UXO accidents. Her most vivid childhood memory of her time in Laos took place when ...

Laos and Japan have upgraded their relationship to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, marking 70 years of diplomatic ties ...

The two leaders also concurred in elevating Japan-Laos relations to a "Comprehensive Strategic Partnership" in view of the ...