Asia Floods Take Heavy Toll on Local Economies

A man stands on a flooded pier at Memorial bridge, along the Chao Praya river, in Bangkok, October 14, 2011. (Photo: Reuters) October 14, 2011Ron Corben | Bangkok Voice of AmericaFloodwaters in central Thailand have inundated industrial parks and manufacturing centers, adding to the mounting economic costs of the disaster. Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos are also continuing to tally the cost of heavy flooding that has claimed hundreds of lives.Economists...

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Flooding Claims 250 Lives, as Government Response Continues

People sit as they receive flood donations at downtown Phnom Penh, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011. (Photo: AP) Friday, 14 October 2011Chun Sakada, VOA Khmer | Phnom Penh "Our people are increasingly suffering."The government raised the national death toll from ongoing flooding to nearly 250 on Friday, as Cambodia continues to grapple with its worst flooding in a decade.More than 30,000 families have been pushed out of their homes in flooding that...

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ASEAN shows solidarity in face of catastrophe

October 15, 2011JAKARTA (Xinhua) - ASEAN member countries are making efforts to provide relief aids to flood-affected countries in the region.ASEAN ministers have met and communicated to determine what kind of assistance to be channeled to the victims of the floods in the region, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said on Friday.Floods have hit Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, and the Philippines since months ago, killing more than 500 people and damaging houses and infrastructures facilities."As the chairman of ASEAN, Indonesia...

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A threat to Kingdom’s FDI

Friday, 14 October 2011 12:02 May KunmakaraThe Phnom Penh Post Tokyo - Cambodia needs more than an estimated US$13 billion in infrastructure works by 2020 if the country intends to continue attracting foreign investment, a joint survey by some of the world's top financial institution indicated on Wednesday.During a conference held by the Japan International Cooperation Agency and the International Monetary Fund, experts from the two institutions urged Asia's 16 low-income countries – which need some $358 billion in infrastructure projects...

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Confusion Reigns as Thai Capital Braces for Floods

October 14, 2011BANGKOK (AP) -- Fear and confusion gripped Bangkok on Friday as residents grappled with mixed messages over whether Thailand's worst floods in decades would overwhelm the intricate defenses of the low-lying metropolis of 9 million people.The government sought to reassure residents that the Thai capital would be spared from the deluge that has submerged entire towns across the country's central plains, devastated rice crops and shuttered hundreds of factories, noting that much of Bangkok sat behind a sturdy flood wall...

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Cambodian draft law on NGOs may breach international pact, UN rights expert warns

Maina Kiai, Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association 14 October 2011UN News Centre"A legal framework to ensure freedom of association should facilitate, rather than control, individuals' enjoyment of this right formally or informally"A Cambodian draft law making registration of associations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) mandatory and banning unregistered groups, risks breaching an...

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