Reports

In the past week flooding of the Mekong River has intensified, rising to a record of 11.05 metres. The Mekong River Commission forecast that the water levels will continue to rise in the coming week. Over 70,000 cases of water-borne…

CARE International, one of the world's leading international relief and development agencies, is responding to massive flood emergencies in three Asian countries. In the eastern Indian state of West Bengal over 10 million people are affected by widespread flooding while…

Secretariat of the Japan Disaster Relief Team The JICA Cambodia Office has reported that a ceremony was held marking the distribution of a portion of the relief supplies provided by Japan to local flood victims. The supplies were presented to Cambodia's…

"As the Mekong River system continues to rise to its highest levels in decades, flood emergencies are arising along the entire river's length in areas where inhabitants represent some of the poorest people in Asia," reports Skip Dangers of…

by: Veasna Kith - Communications Officer, World Vision Cambodia World Vision Cambodia is engaged in the initial phase of flood relief work, providing food and shelter materials to 1,302 families displaced due to record flooding in the country's worst affected district. Around…

by: Alan Austin Up to two million people in Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam are believed homeless in the worst Mekong River floods in memory. Hundreds of thousands of Cambodians have been evacuated to pagodas, schools and elevated areas. More are…

Les victimes des graves inondations, qui sont survenues au niveau du cours inférieur du fleuve Mékong en Asie du sud-est, bénéficieront également du soutien de l'Aide humanitaire de la Confédération : la Direction du développement et de la coopération…

ROME - As massive floods from the Mekong River continue to inundate homes and villages in Southeast Asia, the United Nations World Food Programme announced today that it will give immediate food aid to some 40,000 of the worst-affected…

Press Release No. G/38/00 Bangkok (United Nations Information Services) --- Deforestation may be one of the principal causes of floods in the Greater Mekong Subregion, experts at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)…

Phnom Penh (dpa) - The swollen rivers passing through Cambodia's capital hit the flood level Thursday as the nation's death toll continued to climb, officials said. Water levels in Phnom Penh reached 11.20 metres, the predicted flood point for the…