DPAA thanks Cambodia for MIA assistance
United States thanks Cambodia for help locating and recovering the remains of US soldiers missing since Vietnam War.
Tag: Vietnam War
US committed to help demine Kingdom
A United States Embassy representative on Wednesday said that his country is committed to help clear landmines, in particular clusters bombs
War Torn: Stories of war from the women reporters who covered Vietnam
“War Torn” is a collection of first-person essays written by ten female journalists who served as foreign correspondents during the Vietnam War.
China-USA trade war possibly less severe than cold war
US and USSR “hot wars” were far more severe than the current China US trade war.
Gov’t to resume POW/MIA programme
Prime Minister Hun Sen announced that Cambodia will resume helping the US find and recover the remains of US service personnel missing since the Vietnam War.
PM seeks win-win solution in New York
Cambodia to allow US search for its soldiers’ remains if restrictions are lifted, says PM.
Hun Sen: I do not hate Americans
One month prior to an official visit to the US, PM says he has no hate for the US, only those who meant Cambodia harm.
To be forewarned is to be forearmed
It goes without saying that a number of Western countries are in the business of regime change. It is usually the same Western countries engaging in regime change and for the sake of simplicity I would like to call this group of Western countries “The West”.
PM on the war debt to US
Prime Minister spoke at the inauguration ceremony for National Highway 1 (from Phnom Penh to Bavet on the Vietnamese border).
China deliberately downplays US aircraft carrier’s first ever visit to Vietnam
China’s reaction to an American aircraft carrier’s first ever visit to Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War has been deliberately muted.
US sailors visit Agent Orange victims in Vietnam
US Sailors visit a Vietnamese shelter for people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange.
US carrier in Vietnam for landmark visit
A US aircraft carrier visits Vietnam for the first time since the end of the War.
The Post: How 1970s politics resonate with today’s ‘fake news’
Even though its narrative deals with the Pentagon Papers, which revealed secret details of US actions during the Vietnam War, the 1970s scandal serves as an allegory of the current political climate.
US cluster bombs found in Kratie
Experts from the Cambodian Mine Action Centre found 19 cluster munitions on Thursday in the province of Kratie. These are the unexploded innards of cluster bombs dropped by the USAF during the Vietnam War. Heng…
Suffering and compassion
“First They Killed My Father” has been nominated for an Oscar in the foreign language film category.
Villagers want the US to drop Cambodia’s war debt
Villagers who have suffered from the American bombs want the US to cancel the war debt.
Chemical weapons experts kick off operations
The Defence Ministry’s chemical weapons experts and officials from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) started their operations to inspect chemical bomb site in Mondulkiri province’s O’Reang district on Wednesday. The chemical…
UN asked to defuse bomb row
The Minister of Foreign Affairs is to file a request with the United Nations that US chemical bombs be cleared from Cambodian territory.
Health probe targets chemical bomb sites
Prime Minister Hun Sen orders the Health Ministry to investigate the well-being of villagers living within the vicinity of an estimated 15 chemical bomb sites.
Bomb disposal gets underway
The Cambodian Mine Action Centre and chemical weapons experts begin removing two Vietnam War-era bombs.
Villagers haunted by the scars of conflict
Sar Hun recalls seeing all manner of US planes and helicopters in the sky from the 1968 to 1975, when America dropped thousands of bombs on Cambodia.
PM calls on US to take its bombs back
The Prime Minister urges the US to assist Cambodia in removing unexploded bombs that its forces dropped on the country during the Vietnam War.
Emergency summit called over tear gas bomb crisis
The Ministry of Defence holds an emergency meeting over two tear gas barrel bombs.
A voice to Vietnam’s strangled anger
An excoriating tragi-comic novel, a bestseller in the US, it not only dismantles the Hollywood myth of the Vietnam conflict but turns it inside out.
