Japan provides US$4.5 million for mine clearance in Laos

FILE PHOTO: The UXO clearance team removes a large bomb in Kasy district in Aug, 2023. During the Indochina War from 1964 to 1973, US warplanes dropped more than two million tonnes of bombs on Laos, equivalent to about one tonne for every man and woman, making Laos the most heavily bombed nation on earth per capita. - Vientiane Times/ANN

VIENTIANE: The Government of Japan has provided US$4.5 million to help speed up the clearance of unexploded ordnance in three southern provinces.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Embassy of Japan to Laos signed and exchanged notes on the provision of grant aid for the project, according to a statement from the ministry.