Thai Cabinet approves $30,000 in aid for ARMAC

Thailand’s Cabinet on Tuesday approved $30,000 in operational costs for the ASEAN Regional Mine Action Centre (ARMAC) in Phnom Penh for the period 2024 to 2026. The three-year aid announcement was made ahead of Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin’s first Read More …

Cambodia: 14-nation ‘Pure Homeland’ mine drill concludes

Cambodia concluded the first international humanitarian mine action exercise themed “Pure Homeland 2023” conducted within the framework of the ASEAN Defence Ministers-Plus on Friday. The first-of-its-kind multinational exercise, that began on September 13 at the Multinational Peacekeeping Force Training School Read More …

Cambodia: CMAC starts clearing mines and explosive remnants on more than 500 hectares of forest land in Siem Reap

532 hectares of Phnom Preah Chbar community forest and people’s land in Srey Snom district, Siem Reap province, have been cleared by CMAC of mines and other explosive remnants of war. Srey Snom District Governor Hun Rithy said at the Read More …

How ‘war on terror’ was fought and won in Southeast Asia – for now

In the early 2000s, the potential for terror attacks in Southeast Asia appeared dramatically different from today. Indonesia was rocked by the Christmas Eve church bombings on December 24, 2000, that killed 18 people. Just six days later, Metro Manila Read More …

Cambodia hosts first multilateral operational training exercise on mine clearance

Cambodia is hosting the first multinational operational exercise at the Humanitarian Mine Action Field within the framework of the ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting-Plus under the theme “Pure Homeland-2023”. The first-of-its-kind multinational event, which will last for 10 days, began on Read More …

China helps train international 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 Read More …

Myanmar: Myawaddy governor killed in drone attack

Six people including Myawaddy governor were killed in drone attacks, carried out by Myanmar’s resistance forces. A tension at the border town of Myawaddy escalated once again, as opposition forces in Myanmar have carried out attacks using drones to drop Read More …

Cambodia: India fund Koh Kong demining operations

The Indian embassy and the Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA), signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on August 31, approving $425,000 in funding for a vital mine clearing project which encompasses four districts in Koh Kong province. Read More …

Myanmar: 5 injured in hospital bomb blast in Mandalay

Five people were injured on Thursday in a hospital bomb blast in Myanmar’s second largest city of Mandalay, the information team of Myanmar’s State Administration Council said. The information team reported that at around 1:30 p.m. local time on Thursday Read More …

China: PLA Army to participate in “Pure Homeland-2023” multinational joint demining operation in Cambodia

According to the consensus reached by the ASEAN Defense Ministers’ Meeting Plus (ADMM-Plus) Experts’ Working Group (EWG) on Humanitarian Mine Action (HMA), the Chinese PLA Army will send a task force to Cambodia for the multinational joint demining operation code-named Read More …