Informes

Summary 1. Introduction The 2006 Annual Flood Report aims to fulfil two primary roles: it provides a summary of the flood year 2006 and it collates important data on the flood regime. These data will, in time, accumulate to provide…

The Federation’s vision is to strive, through voluntary action, for a world of empowered communities, better able to address human suffering and crises with hope, respect for dignity and a concern for equity. Its mission is…

It is the kind of floating village that tourists do not get to see. Yet it has all the photographic moments that tourists travel around the world for - smiling children playing in the waters, women wrapped in their…

The Federation's mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilizing the power of humanity. It is the world's largest humanitarian organization and its millions of volunteers are active in over 185 countries. In Brief This Bulletin is being…

PHNOM PENH, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Torrential storms have killed at least 13 people in Cambodia in the last week, including three struck by lightning, and more heavy rain was forecast, officials said on Thursday. Flash floods killed eight people,…

PHNOM PENH, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Torrential rains swelling the annual Mekong floods have killed at least eight Cambodians and damaged several thousand hectares (acres) of paddy fields, officials said on Monday. The government was seeking United Nations help to get…

Phnom Penh_(dpa) _ At least 40,000 people have fled flooding across Cambodia and authorities reported at least four dead as they scrambled to obtain information from remote areas on the extent of the damage Friday. Heavy rains across the country…

1. INTRODUCTION The flooding of the Mekong River is a recurrent event. Every year the Lower Mekong Basin (LMB) experiences flooding, which has the potential to adversely affect economic and human activities, often claiming lives and causing…

Foreword In the past few years, the countries and areas of the Western Pacific Region of the World Health Organization and the East Asia and Pacific Region of the United Nations Children’s Fund have experienced numerous communicable…

I. PROJECT DESCRIPTION 1. The 2000 floods caused unprecedented damage due to the extent and duration of inundation that covered more than 50% of Cambodia. The Mekong River exceeded the established emergency level during 2 - 26 September 2000 and…