El Niño raises drought fears

Cambodia is looking at a delayed onset of the rainy season, with experts and government officials having raised concerns of a prolonged dry season affecting agricultural production, as the Pacific weather pattern El Niño threatens to bring drought-like conditions. Ngin Chhay, director of the Rice Department ...

Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/el-nino-raises-drought-fears

Storms kill three people at weekend

Three people were killed and two injured on Sunday evening as heavy storms struck Svay Rieng, Kampong Chhnang and Preah Sihanouk provinces, destroying dozens of homes. ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/storms-kill-three-people-weekend

Natural disaster: One dead, several hurt by storms

A 34-year-old man was killed by lightning yesterday while attempting to construct a waterway under his house during a morning storm, local police said. ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/natural-disaster-one-dead-several-hurt-storms

Storms kill one, destroy homes

Authorities are tallying the cost of major storms that battered three provinces in recent days, leaving one woman dead and more than 100 homes and other buildings damaged. ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/storms-kill-one-destroy-homes

Unseasonal storms hit northwest

Two people were injured and more than 60 homes left damaged after freak storms swept through Preah Vihear and Banteay Meanchey provinces over the weekend. ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/unseasonal-storms-hit-northwest

Floods, storms and heat projected to cost SE Asia $34 bln per year

Falling crop yields, damage to infrastructure and heat-related illnesses brought on by climate change could cost the four Southeast Asian countries of the lower Mekong River basin $34 billion per year, researchers say. A report released on Monday found that climate change could cost Cambodia, ...

Alisa Tang
http://in.reuters.com/article/2015/02/23/climatechange-southeast-asia-idINKBN0LR1A920150223

Pyrotechnics pariahs for New Year festivities

Authorities have vowed to seize fireworks and punish anyone caught letting off explosives as Lunar New Year celebrations get under way today. The warning by the Phnom Penh municipality came as the Interior Ministry revealed plans to station more than 20 fire trucks around the city ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/pyrotechnics-pariahs-new-year-festivities

Police to investigate market fire

The Phnom Penh police’s fire brigade is creating a new committee to determine the cause of a blaze at O’Russei market on Sunday night, an official said. The fire, he said, was extinguished within an hour and led to what vendors are saying equates to ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/police-investigate-market-fire

Tropical storm precedes cold front

Tropical Storm Sinlaku is expected to hit Cambodia today, bringing with it heavy rains and flooding for residents in the Kingdom’s northeastern provinces, a government meteorologist confirmed. Mondulkiri and Ratanakkiri are expected to be the most vulnerable areas, and the storm will have little effect on ...

Pech Sotheary and Sarah Taguiam
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/tropical-storm-precedes-cold-front

Another Prey Veng market fire causes $3 million in damage

A market fire in Prey Veng province’s Kompong Trabek district destroyed more than 200 stalls early Wednesday morning, spreading to more than 20 adjacent houses and causing almost $3 million in damage, officials said. ...

Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/another-prey-veng-market-fire-causes-3-million-in-damage-73206/

No compensation for vendors at Old Market

The committee that runs Old Market in Phnom Penh told the owners of stalls that were gutted by a fire on Monday that they would receive no compensation and would have to rebuild their businesses themselves. Yun Chandara, director of the committee that oversees the ...

Sen David
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/no-compensation-vendors-old-market

Phnom Penh Authority explains about Psar Chas market fire

Phnom Penh City Hall on Monday denied that someone set fire on Psar Chas market (Old Market), saying that the fire was caused by electric fault in a store inside the market. The denial came after public as well as social media users said that arson ...

The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/phnom-penh-authority-explains-about-psar-chas-market-fire-7719

Anco blamed for flooding

Villagers in Banteay Meanchey province’s Malai district have complained that a politically connected firm owned by one of the country’s most influential businessmen has flooded their homes. ...

Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/anco-blamed-flooding

Start of school year delayed

Tardiness is usually discouraged within school settings, but this year, the Education Ministry is endorsing a month-long delay for the whole academic year. Public schools, which typically start in the beginning of October, will this year commence classes on November 3, with studies continuing until the ...

Laignee Barron and Mom Kunthear
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/start-school-year-delayed

Lightning casualties decline in Cambodia this year

About 71 Cambodian people had been killed by lightning strikes in the first nine months of 2014, down 30 percent from 101 deaths over the same period last year, a disaster control official said Monday. ...

Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/141020/lightning-casualties-decline-cambodia-year

Riverbanks falling in K Cham

Amid a recent spate of riverbank collapses in Kampong Cham province that have so far damaged three properties, authorities are advising the owners of nearly 40 houses to move their structures. Yesterday’s collapse in the province’s Kampong Cham commune destroyed the Khyol Tonle restaurant in front ...

Pech Sotheary
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/riverbanks-falling-k-cham

Floods swamp capital

A torrential downpour that lasted over three hours yesterday morning has left many in the capital struggling with flooded houses, businesses and travel conditions, sparking outcry that authorities have not done enough to manage the rain’s effects. Flooding took place in virtually every district in ...

Taing Vida
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/floods-swamp-capital

Flood death toll rises to 45 in Cambodia

At least 45 people in Cambodia have died and thousands of families have been evacuated from homes to higher grounds in floods caused by monsoon rains and rivers overflowing their banks, a senior official said Thursday. “In the past three weeks, floods have claimed 45 lives ...

Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-08/21/c_133573898.htm

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