2003-03-30 04:00:00 PDT Xieng Khouang Province, Laos-- By 10 a.m., Mick Hayes is already on his second demolition of the day. It is a tennis-ball-size bomblet found in the bottom of a 35-year-old ...

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A technician in the fields of Laos prepares for a controlled explosion - Jack Taylor/Jack Taylor At first glance, the scene is unremarkable: women in wide-brimmed hats are dotted across a rice paddy ...

Al Jazeera's 101 East episode tackles the efforts of women workers in Laos to find and destroy unexploded cluster bombs dropped by the United States during the Vietnam War era.

An exhibit of "bombies," or cluster submunitions, at the visitor center for the nonprofit COPE. An estimated 30 percent of bombs dropped on Laos by U.S. forces during the Vietnam War failed to explode ...

XIENG KHOUANG, Laos (Reuters) - Imagine growing up in a country where the equivalent of a B52 planeload of cluster bombs was dropped every eight minutes for nine years. Then imagine seeing your ...

In a historic visit, the president pledges to double funding to clear the many unexploded bombs that are leftovers from the Vietnam War. Obama Pledges To Help 'Heal' Laos, Decades After U.S. Bombings ...

Laos has a grim claim to fame, as the most heavily bombed country in history, per capita. And today, more than four decades after the U.S. dropped those armaments, millions of unexploded bombs remain.