Worst Cambodian flood in a decade kills 167

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Update on floods in Philippines after getting hit with back to back typhoons.

"CALUMPIT, Philippines — Floodwaters slowly receded Monday in many parts of the northern Philippines after two typhoons that killed nearly 60 people, amid appeals for more boats to bring food and water to residents refusing to abandon inundated homes.

Mayor James de Jesus of worst-hit Calumpit town north of Manila said that at least 15 villages were still inaccessible and evacuation centers crowded with about 15,000 people.

As waters subsided, many residents staying on rooftops for days refused to leave their homes for fear of burglars and instead asked to be delivered food and supplies. Others who took advantage of rescue boats lined up in long lines with containers to get drinking water.

"For now we need rescue teams with rubber boats. We need to distribute food and water to the families stranded by the floods. I cannot reach all of them personally," de Jesus said in a radio interview. He also appealed for additional police to guard against looters, with some people complaining about stolen property.

"Floods are receding, but some areas remain flooded," said Bulacan provincial disaster official Raul Agustin, adding that rescuers had difficulty reaching riverside villages because of strong currents.

At least 59 people were killed by the two typhoons that hit the northern Philippines days apart last week. Typhoon Nalgae killed at least three people Saturday.

It was headed Monday for China's Hainan Island and central Vietnam, where the worst seasonal flooding in more than a decade has killed 11 people, including five children, over the past week in the southern Mekong Delta.

Hundreds of people have died across Southeast Asia, China, Japan and South Asia in the last four months from prolonged monsoon flooding, typhoons and storms."

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The death toll has risen in Cambodia with rice crops ruined as well. This isn't just about the extreme monsoons, this is about all that is affected because of them including government's inability to handle the destruction and economic loss.
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"Cambodia's worst floods in a decade have left at least 183 people dead since August and damaged nearly 100,000 hectares of rice fields, the government said Friday.
Figures provided by the National Committee on Disaster Management show flooding has affected 231,000 people across nearly all of the country. Around 23,000 people have been evacuated to higher ground, and many roads and buildings have suffered damage.

Ma Norith, head of the committee's information department, said water levels on the Mekong River, which runs through Cambodia, remain high.

"The water is starting to dry out in most of the areas," he said. "But whether the worst case is finished or not, we cannot yet say."

The floods are Cambodia's worst since 2000, when more than 370 people died.

The government's strategy to help those affected has come in for criticism, with thousands of people still waiting for assistance.

On Friday the Cambodia Daily newspaper interviewed a group of 15 people, including children, who had been stranded on high land for three weeks in the badly affected south-eastern province of Prey Veng.

Hom Tey, a 35-year-old mother of five, said no government officials had visited.

"My family has only two kilos of rice left," she said. "No one has offered aid to our families, no one sees our problem."

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To see these extreme monsoons as the "norm" will be catastrophic for countries like Thailand.

"Thailand's worst floods in at least 50 years may slow economic growth and cause $1.6 billion of damage, posing the first leadership test for Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra since she took office two months ago.

The deluge swept across the country from late July, killing 237 people, displacing 2.6 million others and damaging almost 10 percent of rice farms in the biggest exporter of the grain, data from the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation and the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives show.

Economic losses from the floods and weakening overseas demand for Thailand's electronics, textiles and agricultural goods may complicate Yingluck's efforts to meet a pledge to raise the minimum wage. Flood damage may reach $1.6 billion, the University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce estimates, stiffening resistance to mandated pay increases.

Yingluck's government has deployed about 10,000 soldiers to aid flood victims and extended rice-price guarantees to shield rural incomes, while the finance ministry last week cut its 2011 growth forecast to a range of 3.8 percent to 4.3 percent, from 4 percent to 5 percent.

More than a hundred factories producing auto parts, food and electronics have temporarily closed because of floodwaters, according to the Federation of Thai Industries. Indorama Ventures, which says it's the world's largest producer of polyester, shut factories in Lopburi province that make wool yarns and polymers, the company said Sept. 27.

"We didn't expect the impact to spread from the agricultural sector to the industrial sector," Tanit Sorat, the federation's vice president, said. "This will threaten economic growth because declining production could reduce incomes and weaken consumption at a time when demand from overseas buyers is slowing."

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And Thailand.

"The death toll in Thailand’s worst floods in five decades rose to 244 and threatened to disrupt operations of automobile and electronics makers that use the Southeast Asian country as a production base.

Heavy rain since July 25 has caused flooding in 59 of the country’s 77 provinces, and 28 of them remain submerged, the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation said on its website today. Industrial parks in Ayutthaya province home to factories from Honda Motor Co. and Sony Corp. are at risk after floods caused nearby plants to shut down.

“The situation in Ayutthaya is quite worrisome,” Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, who surveyed the damage by helicopter today, told reporters after landing in Bangkok. “In some areas water has reached levels we have never seen before.”

The deluge has affected more than six million people in the region and claimed a further 224 lives in Cambodia, Vietnam and the Philippines, according to the United Nations. Thailand has seen the most fatalities as typhoons and above-average rainfall damage crops, destroy businesses and uproot families across Southeast Asia."

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And Pakistan

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And the Philippines. And China.