Cambodian farmers risk lives for rice as US freezes demining aid


TA nurse cleaning a wound of Yeat Saly, who was injured in a mortar bomb explosion, in a Chinese-funded hospital in Tboung Khmum province in Cambodia. -AFP

TBOUNG KHMUM, Cambodia: Eleven-year-old Yeat Saly lies in a hospital bed, a piece of shrapnel lodged in his forehead -- one of the many injuries inflicted by an old mortar he found near his village in Cambodia.

Parts of the kingdom are still littered with unexploded ordnance from decades of conflict, but US President Donald Trump's decision to freeze virtually all American aid has forced many long-running projects to clear the deadly debris to grind a halt.

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