Worst Flood to hit Indochina Region in 10 years

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Worst Flood to hit Indochina Region in 10 years

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Cambodian National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM) has estimated that the flood destruction costs up to US$ 521 million.

The destruction includes 400, 000 hectares of crops and many infrastructures. In its report, NCDM has also recorded 247 deaths, and 1.5 millions people of the over 14 millions population have also been affected.

Floods have hit many parts of 17 provinces in Cambodia. Kompong Thom, Battambong, Banteay Meanchey, and Siem Reap, home to marvelous Angkor Wat, are the most affected.

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BANGKOK, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- It is estimated that water will flow into Thai capital Bangkok city area on Friday night and the government is trying to channel it out to the sea through the eastern and western outskirts of the capital, according to Bangkok Post online.

A total of 342 people were confirmed dead and two people were missing in the floods that have inundated the upper part of the country for almost three months.

The damage caused by the floods cost as much as 120 billion baht ($3.9 billion), Bank of Thailand Governor Prasarn Trairatvorakul said Oct. 14

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Vietnam

The toll from the worst floods to hit Vietnam's Mekong Delta in a decade has reached 24, most of them children, the government disaster authority said on Monday, as it reported a further six deaths.

The flooding, which began in mid-September and is expected to last until late October, has so far inundated nearly 60,000 homes in the country and damaged more than 6,900 hectares (17,000 acres) of rice fields.

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Flooding and landslides triggered by tropical storm Haima have killed at least 15 people, and caused damage estimated at more than 500 billion kip (around 62 million U.S. dollars) in Laos' Xayaboury, Xieng Khuang, Borikhamxay and Vientiane provinces, local media reports said on Thursday.

The devastating flood has made it even tougher for locals during the current period of rising inflation.

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Yangon - A flash flood in central Myanmar on Friday left dozens of people missing as homes along a river bank were swept away, government officials in the military-dominated country said.

"About 60 people are missing so far because of the flood" in Pakokku township, an official who did not want to be named told AFP.

"Some houses and a monastery along the river bank were swept away and a bridge was destroyed as the water rose up," he said.

Southeast Asia has been battered by particularly severe monsoon rains this year.

According to the United Nations, more than 700 people have been killed across Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos and the Philippines, and eight million have been affected.

Thailand has been particularly severely hit, with more than 300 people dead and Bangkok on alert for flooding.

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that's all pretty horrible, but what is the point you are trying to make?
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No point really just letting people know whats happening on the other side :D

As far i know i know Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam arent requesting foreign aid. They are accepting donations, but other than that i guess they are okay to cope with the disaster.

The biggest donation of course came from China.
dsheinem wrote:that's all pretty horrible, but what is the point you are trying to make?
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