24 October 2013
Bangkok Post
PHNOM PENH - The vice president of Cambodia's National Committee for Disaster Management said Thursday damage from monsoon-season flooding is now estimated to have topped US$1 billion (31 billion baht).
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 1.8 million Cambodians and damaging 344,300 hectares of rice paddies and 440 kilometres of national roads has already topped the $550 million destruction in 2011, one of the worst flood seasons in recent memory.
The floods have affected most of the country's 24 provinces and Phnom Penh since mid-September and 168 Cambodians, 73 of them were children, have died.
Cambodia's rainy season generally runs May to October and floods are quite normal within the period.
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