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Aid Arrives for Flood-Swamped Thailand, Cambodia
Help is starting to pour into Thailand and other parts of Asia where rising floodwaters are swamping entire communities and threatening to overrun even more. United States Marines arrived in Bangkok Saturday with equipment, sandbags and other relief supplies. The U.S. ambassador to Thailand, Kristie Kenney, said the Marines will work with the Thai military to battle floodwaters that have hit 61 of Thailand’s 76 provinces. Continue reading
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Tagged ayutthaya, bangkok, cambodia, homes, kristie-kenney, relief, relief-supplies, the-hardest-hit, vietnam
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National Election Official Says Registration on Track
A National Election Committee official on Thursday dismissed accusations that illegal immigrants have been allowed to register for upcoming local polls in 2012. Continue reading
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Tagged committee, director, election, elections, eligibility, legal, make-it-easier, names, news, process, registration, registries, their-names, vietnam
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Record Mekong Flooding Threatens Bangkok, Phnom Penh
United Nations officials say the capitals of Thailand and Cambodia are at risk as the worst flooding in modern times sweeps through the Mekong Basin. Kirsten Mildren, spokeswoman for the U.N.’s humanitarian affairs agency, told VOA Tuesday that officials in Bangkok are taking urgent measures as the floodwaters bear down on the city Continue reading
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Tagged around-the-city, bangkok, cambodia, city, country, floodwaters, kirsten-mildren, philippines, rice, united-nations, vietnam, villages, worst
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Key Vote on Mekong Dam Expected Next Month
As Southeast Asia copes with some of the worst flooding in decades, there are also worries over the environmental impact of a series of new hydroelectric dams now under construction. Continue reading
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Tagged bangkok, cambodia, dams, delta, environmental, food, mekong, mekong-delta, mekong-river, news, project, rice, sea, vietnam, vietnamese
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Financial planning: Vietnamese bank targets rural clients
Financial planning SACOMBANK yesterday announced the launch of its new subsidiary, the 100 per cent foreign-owned Sacombank Cambodia Plc, which is set to target the Kingdom’s rural population. The Vietnamese commercial bank plans to open branches throughout the country’s provinces to provide banking services to a larger cross-section of Cambodia, Sacombank Cambodia vice president Nguyen Minh Tam told the Post yesterday. “We plan to focus on different customers to other banks and many kinds of sectors, but we’ll focus especially on SMEs in the provinces,” he said Continue reading
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Tagged after-receiving, bank, business, countryside, kingdom, provinces, sacombank, the-countryside, under-the-legal, vietnam, vietnamese
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Phnom Penh Port shipments increase
Freight shipments through Phnom Penh Autonomous Port saw year-on-year growth of 30 per cent in the first nine months of the year, according to official PPAP figures. The total number twenty-foot equivalent units that passed through the port hit 60,810 between January and August, up from 46,955 TEUs in the same period in 2010. Continue reading
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Tagged business, damco-cambodia, director, france, from-the-port, port, predictions, russia, shipment, such-as-france, vietnam, year
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Fast Relief Urged for Families in Flooding
The relief organization Oxfam American on Tuesday called for increased efforts to help tens of thousands of families cope with severe flooding across the country. The US-based group said displaced people need food deliveries, clean water, sanitation supplies and shelters, as the death toll from floods in August rose to 164 people and nearly 21,000 people have been displaced. Continue reading
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