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សែន ដាវិត
http://postkhmer.com/national/1-national-news/113049-2014-04-10-03-05-35
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គណៈកម្មាធិការជាតិគ្រប់គ្រងគ្រោះមហន្តរាយបាននិយាយកាលពីម្សិលមិញថា ខ្លួនត្រូវការមូល ...
Matt Blomberg និង បែន សុខហ៊ាន
http://www.cambodiadailykhmer.com/news/12986/
Flooding Caused Evacuation of 31,000 Houses
More than 31,000 households were evacuated and 168 people died across 20 provinces during this year’s rainy-season flooding, according to the Humanitarian Response Forum (HRF), which released its final report on the flooding Monday. In general, flooding did not affect Cambodia as badly as in 2011, ...
Denise Hruby and Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/flooding-caused-evacuation-of-31000-houses-48969/
Kids key in disaster planning
Stronger disaster planning is needed to avoid future devastation and loss of life caused by flooding, according to a report published by World Vision yesterday. The report, titled Cities Prepare, recommends that the Cambodian government and civil society work to place “a stronger emphasis on disaster risk ...
Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kids-key-disaster-planning
China provides agricultural engines to Cambodia for post-flood rehabilitation
China’s Yunnan province on Monday provided 200 agricultural engines to Cambodia’s northwestern Banteay Meanchey province for post-flood rehabilitation. A handover ceremony was held here between Yu Dingcheng, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the Yunnan Provincial People ‘s Congress, and Oung Oeun, chief of the ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-12/02/c_132935559.htm
China provides agricultural engines to Cambodia for post-flood rehabilitation
China’s Yunnan province on Monday provided 200 agricultural engines to Cambodia’s northwestern Banteay Meanchey province for post-flood rehabilitation. A handover ceremony was held here between Yu Dingcheng, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the Yunnan Provincial People ‘s Congress, and Oung Oeun, chief of the ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-12/02/c_132935757.htm
ADB provides 3 mln USD to Cambodia for flood relief
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing emergency humanitarian assistance of 3 million U.S. dollars to help Cambodia recover from devastating floods that have affected 1.7 million people and caused an estimated 1 billion U.S. dollars in damage, the Bank said in a statement on ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-11/20/c_132903465.htm
Hun Sen to blame, says lawmaker
Earlier this week, Prime Minister Hun Sen called for urgent fortification of Cambodia’s resistance to climate change, singling out recent flooding as evidence of the severe consequences the country faces. But at a press conference yesterday, opposition lawmaker Mu Sochua accused the Prime Minister of weakening ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/climate-woes-hun-sen-blame-says-lawmaker
VN donates rice to victims of Cambodian floods
The National Assembly of Viet Nam presented 1,000 tonnes of rice to Cambodian flood victims at a ceremony held in Phnom Penh yesterday. The latest floods took the lives of 80 people and resulted in economic losses of around US$1 billion. ...
Saigon-GP Daily News Staff
http://www.saigon-gpdaily.com.vn/National/2013/11/106808/
Climate change becomes strategic challenge, needs joint attention: Cambodian PM
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Tuesday that climate change has now become a strategic challenge to development that requires urgent and joint attention. “Climate change is no longer a remote case, but is affecting all of us in the present and become one of the ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/sci/2013-11/05/c_132860551.htm
Inmates to return to soaked cells
All 842 prisoners evacuated from Banteay Meanchey provincial prison after water pressure caused a wall to collapse in early October will be sent back there next week – despite only minimal repairs having been undertaken to the flood-damaged building, a rights worker said yesterday said ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/inmates-return-soaked-cells
2014 Draft Budget Reaches Assembly, Still Under Wraps
The National Assembly’s 12-member permanent committee will take its first look at the country’s $3.54 billion draft budget for 2014 on Monday, though officials are still refusing to offer a breakdown of how the money will be spent. The draft, which allocates more than $400 million ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/2014-draft-budget-reaches-assembly-still-under-wraps-46514/
Neutrality of Red Cross in Question After Bun Rany’s Speech
It was the bloodiest battle since Waterloo. Yet the carnage wrought 150 years ago by the Italian and French troops, fighting under Napoleon III, and the forces of the Austrian Hungarian Empire, was overshadowed by its aftermath. While 30,000 had died on the battlefield, more than 40,000 ...
Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/neutrality-of-red-cross-in-question-after-bun-ranys-speech-46497/
China donates 1 mln U.S. dollars to Cambodia for flood victims
China on Thursday donated one million U.S. dollars to Cambodia for the relief of the flood- affected people. Chinese Ambassador to Cambodia Bu Jianguo handed over the cash donation to Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen at the Peace Palace in the Cambodian capital. Bu, on behalf of ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-10/31/c_132848826.htm
NCDM Lauds Flood Response, NGO Calls for Better Coordination
National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM) Vice President Nhim Vanda on Wednesday lauded the flood response work of the Cambodian Red Cross and government, at a workshop to discuss the country’s National Action Plan for Disaster Risk Reduction where several participants focused on the lack ...
Matt Blomberg and Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ncdm-lauds-flood-response-ngo-calls-for-better-coordination-46404/
Families allege flood aid graft
More than 10 families in Pailin province are claiming that flood aid proffered by Cambodia Red Cross officials is being unfairly distributed by commune and village authorities. Kim San, 61, a member of one of 16 severely flood-affected families in Sala Krao district’s Stung Trang commune ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/families-allege-flood-aid-graft
Cambodian flood destroys 4.4 pct of rice paddies this year: official
Recent Mekong River flash floods have entirely damaged 113,260 hectares of rice paddies, or 4.4 percent of the total rice-planted area of 2.56 million hectares, according to an agricultural report Tuesday. “The floods had affected 369,346 hectares of rice paddies. Of the figures, 113,260 hectares ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-10/29/c_132840685.htm
Prisons awash with inmates
More than two weeks since some 850 inmates were evacuated from Banteay Meanchey prison after floodwater caused a wall to collapse, the move is illuminating just how overcrowded their destinations are, an NGO worker has said. Sharon Critoph, a prison consultant for rights group Licadho, said ...
Amelia Woodside and Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/prisons-awash-inmates
Flooding could affect growth
When the extent of flood damage becomes clear, the Asian Development Bank may lower its economic growth forecast for Cambodia to reflect the severity of the aftermath, a senior official with agency’s local office said yesterday. “It is possible that we will have to revise downward ...
Joe Freeman and Sen David, P.7
http://www.phnompenhpost.com
Cambodian flood damage estimates top $1 bil.
The vice president of Cambodia’s National Committee for Disaster Management said Thursday damage from monsoon-season flooding is now estimated to have topped $1 billion. Nhim Vanda, who received $320,000 in flood-relief assistance from Japan on Wednesday, said the estimate for this year’s floods affecting more than ...
Flood crisis another setback for real estate sector
While the political crisis in the country is still ongoing, Cambodia is now suffering another crisis due to flooding, which has had a big impact on the country’s real estate business. Kim Heang, the President of Khmer Real Estate, said the buying and selling of real ...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/flood-crisis-another-setback-real-estate-sector
Myriad flood challenges remain
As the flood levels recede in most of the 20 affected provinces, victims continue facing scores of recovery challenges including sanitation, food security, health and shelter concerns, as well as a lack of potable water. In its fourth report on the flood situation, released yesterday, the ...
Mom Kunthear, Amelia Woodside and Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/myriad-flood-challenges-remain
Thailand, Japan Donate to Flood Relief Efforts
The governments of Japan and Thailand as well as the Thai community in Cambodia have decided to donate goods and cash totaling about $520,000 to flood relief in Cambodia, officials said Tuesday. The Japanese government will donate about $400,000 in an official ceremony this morning at ...
Denise Hruby and Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/thailand-japan-donate-to-flood-relief-efforts-45714/
Government Blames Child Flood Deaths on ‘Careless’ Mothers
The first vice president of the National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM) on Monday blamed some of the deaths in this year’s floods on “careless” mothers. “Maybe the mothers are careless, maybe they don’t pay much attention to their children, so they drown,” NCDM First Vice ...
Zsombor Peter and Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-blames-child-flood-deaths-on-careless-mothers-45666/