a giant pile of bomb casings left over from the American bombing campaign in Laos, a stupendous and futile torrent of airborne destruction. And just beyond the junk heap of weaponry, a new ATM ...

When Lee Po Cha traveled to Laos in November 2022, he was given the opportunity to detonate a bomb. It was the first time in 48 years he had been back to his birth country. It became the most ...

Life moves slower in Laos, but the pace is quickening and the 'land of a million elephants' is increasingly in the clutches ...

Pou Viang Village, Xieng Khouang Province, Laos ©2005/Jerry Redfern) Unexploded bombs continues to kill civilians in Laos, decades after U.S. bombing campaign ended - WBEZ Chicago ...

During the Vietnam War, the United States bombed Laos on a massive scale and in secret. The largest bombing campaign in history means that an estimated eighty million pieces of unexploded ordnance ...

At least 2.5 million tons of ordnance, including 270 million cluster bombs, were dropped on Laos during 580,000 bombing sorties. That equals roughly a planeload every eight minutes for nine years ...