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Archive for October, 2011

Cambodia Floods update 5

Saturday, October 22nd, 2011

30 Km North of Phnom Penh, around the Prek Kdam bridge area, the floodwaters stretch endlessly. The Cambodian floods story was updated with a bunch of new pictures.

Cambodia Floods update 4

Friday, October 21st, 2011

The road along the Mekong going North just after the Prek Ta Meak bridge has been badly damaged by the floods. At one point the water was about 1 meter higher than today’s level. Some 100 students from what I understood (and I don’t understand that much, my Khmer being rather basic) the Hun Sen […]

Cambodia Floods update 3

Thursday, October 20th, 2011

Two more pictures featured in the story on my website about the floods in Cambodia…

Boeung Kak lake to Court

Wednesday, October 19th, 2011

About 200 Boeung Kak lake residents showed up in front of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court of First Instance in support of two of them responding to a summons about supposed death threats. Nothing happened… It is delayed… These pictures and many of the Boeung Kak lake eviction will be shown this saturday, October 22nd […]

Cambodia Floods update 2

Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

The first batch of pictures about the floods in Cambodia are available on my website. I hope being able to get you some more in the coming days.

Boeung Kak lake voices…

Monday, October 17th, 2011

The Boeung Kak lake residents staged a press conference, the day before they will comply to a Court summons about supposed death threats some of them would have uttered. Meanwhile, the houses which were destroyed by Shukaku Inc. on Sept. 16th, have been rebuilt and are almost completed.

Floods in Cambodia Update 1

Friday, October 14th, 2011

Waters of the worst flood in Cambodia since at least a decade are not receding. The social cost will be immense… More in the coming days…

Floods displaced?

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

The neighbourhood on the NW side of the Japanese bridge, inhabited by many Cambodian from Vietnamese origin, will soon be evacuated. Not because it is flooded by the Tonle Sap waters as now, but because the construction of the new parallel bridge, Chinese built, will push them away. Tomorrow Ill go out and check on […]