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Established in 1975 in Bangkok, the ICRC regional delegation covers Thailand, Cambodia, Lao PDR and Vietnam. Through offices in Phnom Penh, Vientiane, Chiang Mai and including a team in the southern provinces of Thailand, the ICRC visits detainees, helps to restore family links, assists vulnerable communities and promotes international humanitarian law.

In Central Viet Nam, families across generations suffer the consequences of unexploded devices dating back to the war of the 1960s and 1970s. With help from the ICRC, the Vietnamese Red Cross is fighting the scourge.

A round-up of activities carried out by the ICRC in Thailand, Cambodia, Viet Nam and Laos (November 2009).

The ICRC's regional delegation in Bangkok covers not only Thailand but also three countries in the region that are living a legacy of war: Cambodia, Laos and Viet Nam. A report on activities in the post-conflict period.

In slightly more than 20 years of civil war nearly 100,000 people underwent amputations in Vietnam, a country of 80 million inhabitants. The ICRC provides support to eight physical rehabilitation centres set up by the authorities, as Roland Sidler reports in the second part of a series on ICRC orthopaedic work in Asia.

Nguyen Van Noi