The Vietnam National Mine Action Centre (VNMAC) and the Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Vietnam on March 23 inked a memorandum of understanding on enhancing explosive ordnance risk education.

VOV.VN - A leading Vietnamese diplomat to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) raised concerns regarding the worsening humanitarian situation in Syria during a UNSC meeting on February 25.

VOV.VN - Densavan district of Savanakhet province in Laos was hit by a huge explosion along the Vietnam-Laos border at 9 a.m. on December 3, leaving two Lao nationals dead and six others injured, including four Vietnamese people.

The People’s Court of HCM City on September 22 handed down severe sentences to 20 criminals, most of whom are members of the reactionary organisation “Trieu dai Viet” (Viet Dynasty), found guilty of “terrorism to oppose the people’s administration” and “illegally manufacturing, storing and trading explosives”.

The 6th-tenure People’s Council of the central province of Khanh Hoa has adopted a resolution approving a project to remove bombs, mines and other explosives left by war in the province, to be carried out from 2021-2025.

VOV.VN - Several people were reportedly injured, in a gas explosion that rocked a five-storey restaurant in downtown Hanoi on May 11, according to authorities.