Rebuilding underway as floods recede
All families evacuated during the worst floods Cambodia has seen in more than a decade have now returned home, the floodwaters have receded and relief efforts are coming to a close, officials said yesterday. Two hundred and fifty people, at least half of them children, died during the floods that inundated large parts of the country over the past few months, and 230,000 hectares of rice paddy was destroyed, according to the latest statistics…
